[Tagging] a kind of name:XX-modern-not-used

Mateusz Konieczny matkoniecz at tutanota.com
Fri Jan 24 09:58:57 UTC 2020


23 Jan 2020, 22:49 by marc_marc_irc at hotmail.com:
> a contributor spends time trying to find the meaning of these words and
> replaces the name with a modern version, absent both from the ground and> from use
>
Why someone would do this?

Such edits should be reverted.

Is it a theoretical problem or is it
something that actually happens?

I know that some people used
not:name tag to record that name
appearing in some external resources
is a known mistake (for example bad
data in TIGER dataset).
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