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

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

Am So., 18. Okt. 2020 um 23:02 Uhr schrieb Graeme Fitzpatrick <
graemefitz1 at gmail.com>:

> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 at 20:39, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
>
>> *definitely* not something one does auomatically.
>>
>
> But would it be so impossible? (Not suggesting that it should actually be
> done!)
>
> 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?
>
>
yes, technically it could be done with a bot or also without a bot,
directly on the database, in seconds or less.
And once we have done it, we could do it again and again, for all kinds of
reasons.

The problem is not the data at the origin, it is the system around the
database.

Cheers.
Martin
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