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

[Phake Nick]

No, it would still require a mass edit and breaking changes that will come
with disadvantages already listed by other participant of this discussion

在 2020年10月19日週一 18:42，Robert Delmenico <robert at rtbk.com.au> 寫道：

> Nice investigating Nathan,
>
> I would be open to using artificial instead of human_made.
>
>
> Would it be best to change the proposal or start a second proposal?
> Change man_made= to artificial=
>
> Rob
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 21:14, nathan case <nathancase at outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> Pros and cons aside, “human-made” is not a term that is in current
>> widespread usage. As a native English GB speaker, I find it clunky and
>> somewhat distracting.
>>
>> A better gender neutral term might be “artificial”, which is already a
>> synonym for “man-made” and is already widely used.
>>
>> Indeed, the Handbook of Nonsexist Writing suggests: "artificial,
>> handmade, hand-built, synthetic, manufactured, fabricated, machine-made,
>> and constructed" as options instead of man-made. Presumably the majority
>> (if not all) of OSM "man-made" tags relate to objects which are not
>> naturally occurring. Therefore "artificial" seems to hold.
>>
>> Other sources:
>> https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/gender-inclusive-language/
>>
>> https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Usage/faq0053.html
>> https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/man-made
>>
>> An issue may arise if artificial is already being used as a tag however.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Nathan
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