[Talk-us] Change sets covering entire US?

[Mateusz Konieczny]

Nov 8, 2021, 11:31 by frederik at remote.org:

> Hi,
>
> On 08.11.21 04:50, Tod Fitch wrote:
>
>> Change set 113500241 [1] showed up in my RSS feed today. I have mixed feelings about adding name:en=* values for all cities in the US but I guess it makes some sense.
>>
>
> It is a mechanical edit that probably violates our rules. Because
> mechanical edits have the potential to be useless/problematic on a
> larger scale than a random newbie edit, there is a requirement that they
> be discussed before execution.
>
+1

> In this particular case, a discussion might have led to the advice to
> either shelve the idea altogether, or run the script in smaller batches
> - that's why I assume no discussion has taken place.
>
In this case root cause is that it is a new mapper (unless there is a 
reason to suspect that someone created new account for that edits)

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