[OSM-talk] Deleting many old edits by a "bad actor"

[Bryce Jasmer]

Right. That's why I mentioned reverting if clean (meaning no other edits
have been done on the elements in question) and hand editing if the
elements have been modified since they made their bad edits.

Check out the spreadsheet for details. I've looked at every edit and have a
plan for how to correct them.

*https://tinyurl.com/y8cyh7n7 <https://tinyurl.com/y8cyh7n7>* is a shorter
URL for the spreadsheet that the mailing list probably won't break.

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> sent from a phone
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> > On 5. Sep 2018, at 22:54, Bryce Jasmer <bryce at jasmer.com> wrote:
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> > Is there a reason I shouldn't do this cleanup?
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> 3-4 years are a long time, you shouldn’t simply revert everything to the
> version before s/99he touched it, because we would loose all the edits that
> happened after that.
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> For objects that are still last edited by this user, it seems a bit safer
> to revert, but also then it will potentially create duplicates, because the
> features s/he deleted may have been recreated from scratch in the meantime.
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>
> cheers
> Martin
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