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

[Warin]

On 30/05/2015 8:41 PM, Roland Olbricht wrote:
> 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

I too now understand the name:ru 'problem', no so much 'inflation' but 
possible licence infringement.