[Tagging] Proposal to change key:man_made to key:human_made

[Oliver Simmons]

Doing this would make over 3M objects have their date updated to the
present, when the last meaningful change may have been over 5 years ago.
It creates the illusion of data being up-to-date when all that was changed
was a tag key.


On Sun, 18 Oct 2020, 22:02 Graeme Fitzpatrick, <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 20:39, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
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>> *definitely* not something one does auomatically.
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> But would it be so impossible? (Not suggesting that it should actually be
> done!)
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> Couldn't a bot be set to simply find all cases of man_made=, regardless of
> what it is, & change them to human_made=, similar to using Find & Replace
> in a Word document?
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> & no, as you can see, I don't understand the technicalities behind it all,
> so please be gentle with explaining that I'm an idiot! :-)
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> Thanks
>
> Graeme
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