[Tagging] Key:contact - Misleading Infobox?

[Andreas Goss]

I justed ended up on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Phone and then 
on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:contact which I never really 
visited before and found the box at the top very missleading.

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#Dec. 2013 - While today more users map these new tags, the old tags  # 
#(phone=*, fax=*, website=* and url=*) are still present 5 times more # 
#often in the database. Most applications support both schemes.       #
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I have honestly never seen a single POI that uses contact:phone. Also 
both ID and JOSM seem to support phone=* in their presets.

This box sounds like there was some proposal or other agreement to use 
these "new" tags, but I can't find anything the like.

I looked at the revision history and I think the old box someone changed 
a few months back, reflected the reality much better:

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#01 May 2012 - Although some applications support both, the old tags  # 
#phone=*, fax=*, website=* and url=* remain more popular after two    # 
#years (including in main editors presets).                           #
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http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key%3Acontact&diff=973614&oldid=944939
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