[OSM-talk] Edit review: intermittent waters

[Russ Nelson]

Frederik Ramm writes:
 > 2. I don't think you should continue to make mass edits under the 
 > username "WorstFixer" because that implies that before you "fixed" 
 > things they were among the "worst" which has the potential to offend people.

I always thought it meant that he was the worst person to be doing
this fixing, or doing the worst job at fixing things.

The problem with his worst fixing, is that unless he starts {bugging /
bothering / teaching / correcting / annoying / discouraging} mappers
who are making these edits he disagrees with, they're going to keep
making these edits.

I'd prefer to see a consensus among editors that "we don't do that
anymore", with the "old way" not being in the OSM wiki anywhere,
backed up with an analysis of the timing of these edits as not
recently made, *BEFORE* any of these mass edits are made.

Because if people are still editing like this, then I don't see the
problem that WorstFixer is fixing as actually being fixed. Users of
the map will still have to deal with both the format that WorstFixer
doesn't like AND the format he does like. Less of the former and more
of the latter, but still some of both.

Persuade people to map just one way, THEN once they're doing that, go
back and get rid of the old way.

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