[Tagging] Two competing tags for desalination plants

[Janko Mihelić]

There is a tag man_made=desalination_plant with its own wiki page[1] and
with 11 occurrences [2]. Then there is man_made=water_works +
water_works=desalination of which there is no wiki page, and 33
occurrences[3]. In the end, we have a proposal that proposes
waterworks=desalination_plant[4] (waterworks with no underline) with 0
occurrences. There is also a man_made=water_works wiki which doesn't say
anything about water_works=* subtags [5].

So it seems the wiki is pushing for the man_made=desalination_plant, but
the state of the tag is there is 3 times as many water_works=desalination
which is totally undocumented.

If we want to push the man_made=desalination_plant, should I put a
"Possible tagging mistakes" section with
{{PossibleSynonym|water_works|desalination}} so that we at least have it
documented as an example of bad tagging?

Thanks,

Janko

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Ddesalination_plant
[2] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/man_made=desalination_plant
[3] https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/water_works=desalination
[4]
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Waterworks_proposal
[5] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made%3Dwater_works
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