[Tagging] Deprecation reasons - RFC

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Jan 25, 2022, 13:51 by simon at poole.ch:

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> Am 25.01.2022 um 10:27 schrieb Florian      LAINEZ:
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>> 1. The deprecation definition is currently formalized and >> well described <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features>>> :          "A deprecated tag or deprecated feature is tagging that is          recommended by OpenStreetMap community consensus for removal          and replacement with other tagging."
>> Therefore I don't understand when you say that "it's not a          formal concept".
>> I don't aim to change that definition at all. My only          proposal is to better define the reasons behind a deprecation.
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> That is text that was added by Brian just over a year ago. 
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> Anybody can add literally anything to the wiki, doing so doesn't      make a concept formalized, a consensus or anything. You can argue      that stuff on the wiki that has weathered well over the years does      have some kind of standing, but given that essentially all wiki      changes are stealthy and fly under the radar, the time to achieve      such status needs to be a bit more than just a couple of months      back.
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And as mentioned in edit description in
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Deprecated_features&diff=2078409&oldid=2078224
improvements to 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features
are welcome

(OSM Wiki, at least for now, requires a separate account to edit - and people are in general
welcomed!)
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