[Tagging] I am reverting an edit to the "Names" page on the Wiki

[Andrew Hain]

Text in the wiki that sets limits on what we put in our database empowers deletionists to make foolhardy edits. As such it is better not to prejudge discussion with edits.

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Andrew

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From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
Sent: 08 August 2022 13:30
To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools <tagging at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [Tagging] I am reverting an edit to the "Names" page on the Wiki

Hi,

I have reverted a series of consecutive edits by user "Bgo eiu" to the
"Names" page on the Wiki. I felt that these edits were, in their
entirety, too far-reaching to be made without an explicit community
consensus.

The edits I have reverted include:

* far-reaching changes to the "avoid transliterations" section,
including changing the title to "avoid uninformed transliterations", and
changing the logic from "transliterations are unwanted, except in some
cases" to "transliterations are widely accepted and used, and only
become an issue when uninformed or machine generated"

* the removal of an explicit request to not add name:xx tags duplicating
the original name tag

I am not saying these edits were entirely wrong, I just felt they were
too bold to be made without a discussion here.

Bye
Frederik

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