[Talk-GB] Nonsense edits in Durham & London - revert required

[David Dixon]

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