[OSM-talk] Naming dispute over Jerusalem - OSM failure

[Serge Wroclawski]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Pieren <pieren3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Serge Wroclawski <emacsen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The problem here is that without "another side" there can be no "consensus".

> You are saying that the opinion of one contributor
> doing 1000 edits is more important than the opinion of 1000
> contributors doing 1 edit.

Please don't speak for me.

I said that if one person is editing and the other isn't, then the we
need to listen to the active contributors.

Furthermore, I said that you can't get consensus from idle accounts.

> I like David's idea with the specific tag "name:disputed".

The status of Jerusalem as part of Israel is not disputed. Its status
as a Palestinian city is,

The fact that some people don't like the situation doesn't change that.

A "disputed" tag will result in many things being marked disputed. I
can think of a bunch even in the US.

- Serge