[OSM-talk] Failed water proposal reversal

[Warin]

On 6/22/2016 4:17 PM, Tomas Straupis wrote:
> My question/proposal was about what to do with failed proposals in
> general. That is:
> 1. How to identify a "failed" proposal
> 2. What to do with it
>
> My proposal for point 1 is:
> If after say two years new schema does not get at least equal tagging
> count as the old schema - proposal failed.
>
> My proposal for point 2 is:
> Mark that proposal as "failed" in wiki. Mark all wiki pages which were
> marked as "deprecated" because of the failed proposal as "valid".
>
> P.S. This only influences proposals which are CHANGING tagging.
> P.P.S. There should also be guards against such proposals in the first
> place, but lets park it for now.
>
'Proposals' .... these should raised on the tagging list;

usually as firstly status=draft, then (usually very quickly) to 
status='Request For Comment, then is 2 weeks or so o status='Voting' 
then depending on the vote status='rejected' or 'approved'.

Tags that don't go through this process may have there status unset, set 
to 'defacto', 'inuse' ... but should not have there status to 'approved'.

Where I make a tag that might conflict with some other .. I usually 
mention it on the wiki page I make ...

e.g. 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:sport%3Dshot-put#Alternate_spelling.2Ftagging_schemes