[OSM-talk] Update: Advice needed - dispute regarding names in Cyprus

[Hakan Tandogan]

Abigail Brady wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2007 4:27 PM, David Janda <dj at dotcomdave.com 
> <mailto:dj at dotcomdave.com>> wrote:
> 
>     This is not acceptable to user_7363 and as a navigational aid, his
>     behaviour
>     is rendering the project in northern Cyprus pointless.
> 
> 
> You've tried to reason with them, but this user is clearly displaying an 
> attitude that they are using openstreetmap to push a political agenda.  
> We should take a strong line against any such person who is deliberately 
> deleting material for political purposes - whether they are deleting 
> names from disputed towns - or hypothetically, whether they are deleting 
> entire disputed borders.

Yes, but how? You can't simply block the account, that user will simply 
create a new one and continue his "work" . What's worse, maybe next time 
he will start deleting the border around Ozanköy just for the hell of 
it. You can imagine how heated political disputes can become...

One thing to hope for is that user_7363 is simply an adolescent with too 
much time on his hands and that one of those days, he'll discover girls 
and simply go elsewhere.

The worst case I can imagine is that this guy is a public worker (again, 
with too much free time on his hands) and continues to pester David 
until he gives up and OSM loses another valuable mapper in a disputed area.


Regards,
Hakan


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