[Talk-GB] Nonsense edits in Durham & London - revert required
David Dixon
david at ddixon.force9.co.uk
Sun Apr 11 09:54:19 BST 2010
On 10/04/2010 23:03, Gregory wrote:
> Well spotted ddixon, some of those edits seem like clear "he he, you can
> change wikipedia to say what you like" edits. There have just been some
> accidental deletes in Canada and it seems like the way to deal with them
> is manually.
>
>> To undelete a way, press u, wait 5–10 seconds for the deleted ways to
>> load, select the way to undelete, and press k. To revert a way to an
>> earlier version, select the feature, press k, choose the version, and
>> click Revert.
>>
>> From the Potlatch documentation:
>> * undelete will always use the most recent version of each
>> constituent node (even if it's moved)
>> * revert will use the historic version of each constituent node, but
>> if that node is still visible and has moved somewhere else, it will
>> generate a new node ID
>>
>
> My mouse is far to sensitive in clicking (I think I need to clean it) to
> deal with Potlatch easily. Can you manage to put everything back?
>
> Please post the mailing list how the users respond.
> If there is no response and there are more edits (or your corrections
> get put back) then a block is likely needed, which can be done through
> OSM Foundation people (or at least they know who does it). Hopefully
> once the stuff is put back then the users will either contribute
> responsibly or move on to troll elsewhere.
>
Thanks Gregory. Blackadder kindly forwarded my message to the data
working group. I've no idea what timescales they work to, but after 48h
with no reply from anyone I went ahead and manually reverted the edits.
Since some of the changes included adding silly POIs to Downing Street
I decided a speedy response was necessary.
I'm now keeping a close eye on the accounts in question...
David
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