[talk-au] Unusual edits.

[Liz]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Ross Scanlon wrote:
> 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.
this sounds / smells like a revert target to me