[Tagging] wikipedia links and copy + paste in tag definitions

Tobias Knerr osm at tobias-knerr.de
Sun Apr 30 17:10:54 UTC 2017


On 29.04.2017 22:26, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
> Don't link to WP, especially not in the beginning (as if their definition automatically was equal to ours), because even if the current state is fine, we don't control WP and don't know how they will structure their lemmas in the future.

Thanks for highlighting this issue, I fully agree with you.

Some wiki editors seem to be under the false impression that a Wikipedia
link should somehow be a standard part of any tag page. Including such
links should be the exception, rather than the rule, and they need to be
carefully checked and maintained in the future to make sure that they
are about the same thing as the OSM tag.



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