[Talk-us] how to handle far away user making global changes

[Peter Dobratz]

I noticed recently that all of the facebook tags that I had been adding to
local businesses, have been changed to link:facebook by user
Shmias<http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Shmias>.
The facebook tag is something that I was using often in addition to, but
sometimes in place of, the website tag.

Although the facebook tag is not documented on the wiki, other people have
been independently using it in a similar fashion.  Then Shmias creates a
proposal:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/link

I can't find any evidence of anyone actually supporting this proposal, but
then Shmias decides to change everything globally using the following
changesets:

http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13418262
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13418199
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13418158
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13418123
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13418028
http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/13417925

I've posted to the talk page of the above proposal on December 3 and send a
private message to Shmias on December 5, but I haven't heard anything back
yet.

I guess at this point I would like to pursue reverting these changes, but
I'm not sure about what the next step is.

Peter
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