[OSM-talk] Edit review: intermittent waters

[Peter Wendorff]

Am 30.05.2012 02:40, schrieb 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,
-1
It should be in the wiki anywhere, but absolutely clearly marked as 
"this is how NOT to do it", together with a reference to the new or 
better scheme.
Often "trivial" ways to tag something are the fields where problems are 
visible later with some practice.
When tagging something I never mapped before I often search for the 
keywords which come in mind, and often these are the "trivial" keys 
being obsolete by a new tagging scheme.
If there's nothing (as you suggest) and I search for alternatives, 
everything is fine.
If there's nothing and I give up, tagging my own idea, it's more or less 
the old variant again.

Therefore I would not delete the old variants, but clearly mark them, so 
that everyone can find it
1) to read about past tagging practice and
2) as a link anchor to the new tagging style.

regards
Peter