[Tagging] Wiki Edit War on using/avoiding semicolon lists

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> That object is not part of the result set. Maybe he meant how to find out
that an item is missing from the list? Well I don't see how that becomes
any easier by moving the values over to the keys.
"color:green"!=* in overpass should return values without information about
green color or "color:green"="no" will return objects without green color

> And apparently coming up with regexes that can work with that, is even
more 'complex'.
It is not complex. It is *impossible to write presets or translations for
iD or JOSM* using name#2=green approach.

To all regex advocates, your knowledge of regexes is irrelevant to how OSM
functions. I wait for your solution how we should support name=,
name#2= name#3=
in presets or translations.
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