[OSM-talk] Mechanical name edit? (was Re: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?)

[Roland Olbricht]

Hi,

> On 05/30/2015 09:48 AM, Roland Olbricht wrote:
>> Thank you for informing the community. Do you actually have substantial
>> evidence of a mechanical edit or something similar?
>
> There are a couple individual complaints and license issues (people
> taking names from a collection of military maps published in Russia in
> 2008, or from Wikipedia which is CC-BY-SA licensed). Quite a few users
> have already been blocked about mass-adding name:ru in the past (eg
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/user_blocks/563).

Thank you. Reading the text of this block and the user's most recent 
e.g. ten changesets does indeed strongly give the impression of a 
mechanical edit. I would agree to revert those edits.

This is in particular different from the previously discussed changeset 
in Wales. That one shows reasonable effort to get support from locally 
active mappers.

Bye,

Roland