[OSM-talk] Import guidelines & OSMF/DWG governance

[Grant Slater]

On 18 September 2012 18:13, Christian Rogel
<christian.rogel at club-internet.fr> wrote:
> Blocking a very respected contributor without prior discussion is a major fail in the governance of the OSMF.

The user was messaged on 3 separate occasions between 22 March 2012
and 14 September 2012, asking for him to use a dedicated import
account. Finally a short upload block was placed on his account.(which
ended 3 days ago)

The initial message on the 22 March 2012 and follow-ups pointed to the
guidelines ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines )
which include that imports should be done from a dedicated account.

DWG != OSMF.

OSM is not unique, wikipedia too require a dedicated account for bots.

Regards
 Grant