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

[Dalibor Jelínek]

Hi Martin,
I am sorry but I do not agree with you.

I think that the wikipedia link is sometimes essential for non-native speakers 
and should be included. I do not believe that the defintion of let's say Kremlin
will ever change to mean something completely different.

IMHO you have chosen a bad example to illustrate your statement.
There is nothing wrong with Wikipedia definition of castle.
It fits perfectly for page castle_type=defensive
The problem was that the author has wrongly placed this definition
to the page historic=castle. But that was not a problem of Wikipedia linking.
It was just a bad edit. So I would not draw a conslusion that Wikipedia linking
is bad just from this single case.

Regards,
 Dalibor

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tobias Knerr [mailto:osm at tobias-knerr.de]
> Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 7:11 PM
> To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
> Subject: Re: [Tagging] wikipedia links and copy + paste in tag definitions
> 
> 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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