[Talk-GB] Meta/Facebook #ProfanityCleanup

[Tony Shield]

There is an organised editing page 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Organised_Editing/Activities/Facebook 
including #ProfanityCleanup.

The three examples they give are not unreasonable, however in my opinion 
those issues were vandalism not profanity.

I really do think that their process is flawed or not adhered to - there 
is no way a Dyke or Pussy in a geographic context can be profane - 
clearly someone at the Data Working Group should be asking questions of 
Facebook/Meta to identify why these changes were made.

As an aside there is also Pussy Lane in New Hartford, Connecticut 
https://www.ctmq.org/p-lane/ and thanks to Paul Berry for pointing Tom 
Scotts YT vid which should be required training for profanity fixers.

TonyS999


On 11/01/2023 10:02, Robert Skedgell wrote:
> I've noticed a couple of edits from Meta users in Colorado to clean up 
> imagined profanity.
>
> In the first case the change from Dyke -> Dike corrected a genuine 
> typo. However, we have 410 objects in OS Open Names where the spelling 
> is Dyke compared to only 150 Dike. I'm concerned that others may be 
> changed without any local knowledge or adequate checking against OS 
> Open Data sources.
>
> In the second case, Pussy Lane in Shelley, West Yorkshire was renamed 
> to that of an adjacent street without any strong evidence to support 
> that change. OS 25 inch maps from 1892-1914 show that Pussy Lane 
> existed before Westerley Lane was built.
> https://osmcha.org/changesets/127841222/
> https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=18.0&lat=53.59838&lon=-1.69402&layers=168&right=osm 
>
>
> It's one thing for Zuck's minions to fix real vandalism involving 
> actual expletives, but quite another for prudes to inflict alien and 
> culturally insensitive values on the UK.
>
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