[Tagging] Deprecating phone=* in favor of more ambiguity in the database

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

sent from a phone

> On 29 Jan 2022, at 11:52, mail at marcos-martinez.net wrote:
> Who said we can't make an effort to effectively "clean" the database? Is this written somewhere down? Has the community been consulted?


actually the community has been consulted various times for exactly the keys in question here, and it has become clear that there are vocal groups in favor of both approaches. Using contact:phone is a deliberate attempt since about a decade to deprecate the phone tag, which always has been used more, before and since there is the contact namespace idea. It has also been voted 2 times “recently”, and it has been found, here and in various national forums, that we cannot agree on either version. It wastes everyone’s time to raise this again, the same person that already made 2 proposals and opened the same discussion for at least the third time, as it is very improbable that we could now unanimously deprecate one or the other. 

I support Richard because he’s the moderator and has announced it before, and Sören has confirmed he deliberately acted against.

Cheers Martin