[Tagging] Recreation_ground (landuse vs leisure)

[Dave F.]

Hi

A user has performed globally edit:

"comment = remove leisure=recreation_ground where the more common 
landuse=recreation_ground exists"

The removal of duplicated tags is, of course, correct, however I was 
surprised to see that landuse is being used (& is more popular) instead 
of leisure:

http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=recreation_ground#values

Prescribed tags in editors:

Potlatch2 - leisure
JOSM - landuse
Id - couldn't see one.

My opinion is a recreation_ground can contain other land uses like 
forest, grass, meadow etc. so leisure should be used. I'm guessing this 
question will bring up discussion of the landcover tag again. What was 
the conclusion of that from last time?

What's the consensus/opinion of others?

I've emailed the user concerned

Cheers
Dave F.