[Tagging] Advertising redefinitions in the wiki (was: Re: message=*)

[Tobias Knerr]

On 06.04.2017 13:36, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> indeed, the original proposal had no mention of "size"

This is only the tip of the iceberg. In fact, pretty much all 
advertising-related pages have undergone broad changes compared to what 
was originally proposed. A while ago, I raised the issue here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Barnes38

You can see I didn't really follow up on the topic as much as I should 
have. Ultimately, I was simply feeling overwhelmed by the scope of the 
edits that I would have to discuss and clean up. Advertising tagging, 
and editing the wiki, are after all a very small part of what I do in 
OSM. When the other party makes that their main focus, it just seems 
daunting.

I still think the right way to deal with this would be to restore the 
documentation to its original state, and break the changes down into 
proposals that we can then argue about based on their merits. (And as 
such, I welcome the effort to submit the message to the proposal process!)