[Tagging] football or soccer ?

[John Smith]

On 28 June 2010 19:09, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just note that 'soccer' and 'football' seem to be both present in JOSM
> presets...
> Anyway, I will not fight for such tags but it seems that in this list, some
> people are always agains changes "because it is documented like that in the
> wiki". Just asking myself if we need a wiki if we cannot change/improve
> things ...
> Then say officially that once a tag is present more than 1000 times in the
> db, we cannot change its wiki and freeze the page or move it to an html
> documentation.

If there is a good reason I doubt anyone would stop you from
depreciating a tag, but in this case changing soccer to football seems
to be changing a tag that is widely used into something that fits your
perception of the world. In other words, change for the sake of
change.