[OSM-talk] Edit war on the wiki "map features"

[Sebastian Hohmann]

Andy Allan schrieb:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 3:49 PM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The feature "smoothness" has been enabled and disabled 12 times in the
>> past 7 days from the wiki Map Features page:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:Map_Features:smoothness
>>
>> We should stop the game now. All the people who like the "Map
>> Features" page should say something about this edit war even if they
>> don't care about "smoothness". I really feel disappointed.
> 
> I'm trying to make my mind up whether this is a bad or very_horrible
> state of affairs, but I'm too busy laughing.
> 
> Go ChrisCF is all I can say - I'd rather that the wiki was a
> meritocracy than ochlocracy and I'm flabbergasted that such
> ill-conceived tagging is now an acceptable norm.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andy
> 

Whether one finds the tag excellent or very_bad is out of the question, 
time will tell if it will be in good use. I just think that edit wars 
are an impassable way to go, it will just lead to a bad result.

Even if the tag is horrible, it has been voted on and should thus stay 
on Map Features. Or should just everyone edit the wiki without regard 
for others.