[talk-au] Unusual edits.

[Ross Scanlon]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 11:34:16 +1000
Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Ross Scanlon <info at 4x4falcon.com> wrote:
> > It's just that some of the edits are suspiciously like Brendan_Cherry's
> 
> For those of us not familiar with Brendan_Cherry... what's unusual
> about their edits?
> 
> Steve


Brendan_Cherry was the username that vandalised the Perth - Kalgoorlie - Busselton area in April, with things like The Charlie Sheen Highway etc.


If you compare the two edits from these users the style of comments on the changesets (among other things) are very similar.  Especially when you start looking at the edits closer, small apparently insignicant changes on one way of a changeset but large numbers of items in the changeset.

For example adding a name to oneside of a dualcarriageway road and not the other but deleting the source=nearmap tag from both at the same time, with 100+ ways in total in the changeset but this is the only change.  This is just one example I found I'm sure if I go through the rest of the changesets then there will be others.



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Cheers
Ross