[OSM-talk] Could we just pause any wikidata edits for a month or two?

[Yuri Astrakhan]

If a community has had a well established and agreed process running, which
does not create any new data issues, why should someone outside of that
community be requesting a global halt?  It's not like the data is getting
worse all of a sudden, right? And their work does not prevent global
community from reaching a consensus on how to move forward.  I suspect this
discussion may take a very long time to complete, so proposing to ban
various communities from doing what they have already been happily doing
because somewhere else something is being discussed is strange.  There are
over 40,000 users editing OSM, so reaching a consensus on a fundamental
topic of external DB linking might take years.

Has there ever been a global halt like this in OSM, where several people in
@talk demanded a certain tag to not be (mass) edited globally?  I'm totally
ok if there is a process for that, but global halt does seem a bit extreme
due to a relatively low impact.  After all, we are discussing philosophy of
the project here, not that tag X breaks half of the map renderers all of a
sudden, right?
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