[OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

[John Smith]

On 30 May 2010 23:12, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why?  By my reading it is to quiet such edit wars, so the exact

Why... simple, you can't verify what is in someone's brain as true, at
best you get a consensus, but that may be limited in scope, I guess it
comes down to the importance of the object being mapped.

> opposite.  See how this rule is applied in Belgium with streets having
> three names and all three printed on street signs.

Ok so it works some times for some places, may not be applicable to
all situations leaving things up to not being verifiable.