[OSM-talk] Wikipedia/Wikidata admins cleanup

[Christoph Hormann]

On Wednesday 04 January 2017, Mikel Maron wrote:
> Reverts should be held to the same standard as imports (outside of
> obviously urgent problems).

Definitely not - if the only way to counteract an undiscussed mechanical 
edit that goes against the community principles is to have a discussed 
revert we can also abolish the mechanical edit rule right away.

The DWG has a mandate to revert vandalism, undiscussed imports and 
mechanical edits without starting an open discussion first.  It is also 
common practice that local mappers after having tried to contact a 
mapper making such edits without success can revert these on their own.

No one has suggested to sweepingly revert all edits adding wikidata tags 
independent of who made them and in what context.  No one needs to fear 
that additions of wikidata tags made locally with support from the 
local community are removed.

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Christoph Hormann
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