[OSM-talk] Storing extensive notes on points of interest in OSM?

[OJW]

On Wednesday 05 December 2007 23:47:39 Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> While we're at it, incidentally, did we ever agree a "Wikipedia article"
> tag? e.g. if I click on Bath (the city) I'd want to be taken to the
> wikipedia article on the city and not on washing tubs!

Not sure if anyone "agrees", but on this proposal

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Proposed_features/External_links

I suggested a tag like

wikipedia=Bath, Somerset

which other people have suggested should be

wikipedia:en=Bath, Somerset

or for brevity:

wikipedia:ru=Бат

(you'd then use wikipedia's own interlanguage links if you want articles in a 
different language)



Of course, we then hit wikipedia's famous "notability" debate.  e.g. according 
to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Transport_in_Bedfordshire

the Bedfordshire map should comprise a motorway, an airport, some A-roads, and 
Great Barford bridge.  It seems you'd struggle to keep your notes from being 
deleted, if you stored them on wikipedia.