[OSM-talk] Proliferation of path vs. footway

[Alex L. Mauer]

Liz wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Alex Mauer wrote:
>> Not sure how you think path was "forced" though.  It had 34 votes, 22
>> for and 9 against (3 abstain).  Nobody forced anything, we just used the
>> standard procedure.
> while this was the sort of number of votes that appear on the wiki, for a 
> project with tens of thousands of contributors, this doesn't make a mandate
> (not even for the most determined politician)

OK, but how does that mean it was "forced"?  No one was (or is) held at
gunpoint and ordered to use highway=path.  We followed the standard,
documented procedure for adding a tag to the wiki.  We did nothing
nefarious to stuff the votes (at least I didn't, and I am not aware of
any sock-puppets or anything like that)

I don't even know where the idea of needing a mandate[1] comes in.  No
one's being elected to represent someone else.  There are no policies
that some hypothetical person who would have been elected could have
made public.  And no goverment(!?) is trying to implement a policy here.
 So, uh... what?

-Alex Mauer "hawke"

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_(politics)

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