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

[Martijn van Exel]

This has a foul smell and should be reported to the Data Working Group
if you ask me.

On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Peter Dobratz <peter at dobratz.us> wrote:
> 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.  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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