[Tagging] unused tags and properties

[Warin]

Fridge, stove and sink would be handy for some camp sites ... I came 
across one camp site with a fridge .. standing all by itself in the open 
(with a power point connection). Most of these woiuld be 'inside' a camp 
kitchen .. (some camp kitchens have no walls just a roof.


... On 27/04/19 16:38, Mateusz Konieczny wrote:
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> 27 Apr 2019, 01:54 by dieterdreist at gmail.com:
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>     A few people continue to add unused tags and properties to feature
>     definitions, e.g. looking at the page for tourism=guesthouse,
>     which is quite long in the meantime, you can find "proposed"
>     values with names like
>     "fridge"
>     "stove"
>     "drying:room"
>     "dinner"
>     which all hardly reach a 2 digit number of usage.
>
>
>     https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:tourism%3Dguest_house
>
>     For the "view" tag there isn't even a definition.
>
>     I believe treating the wiki like this will generally lead to a
>     decline in quality of our documentation, because immature tags are
>     pushed that haven't undergone any kind of peer review (aparently).
>
>     Am I the only one with these concerns?
>
> No, you are not the only one. In case of such barely used tags added 
> in the form of
> an unreadable table I think that immediate revert of such edit is the 
> best solution.
>
> Inventing new tags is OK, using new tags is OK, documenting new tags 
> is OK and desirable.
>
> But linking your tag that is barely used everywhere is an unwelcome spam.
>
> In such situation I revert edit as soon as I spot it, especially for 
> users who did it already
> many times and have aggressive usernames that claim to not be experts 
> rather than newbies.
>
> example of previous spam wave (mass spamming of broken 
> shop=street_vendor tag):
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> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835047
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=ES:Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835048
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=FR:Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835049
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=NL:Tag:amenity%3Dvending_machine&diff=prev&oldid=1835051
> and in many other languages, also for other shop types
>
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