Hi, On 22/05/2025 16:48, Greg Troxel wrote:
I see a lot of deletionist activty as vandalism.
I'd be wary of throwing around the term "deletionist" - it sounds like someone just looking for an excuse to DELETE!
And of course the term "vandalism" is totally inappropriate here, because vandalism requires an intent to damage, whereas what we have here is at most a misguided intent to help. (We should all keep that in mind - too many mappers are far too quick to shout "vandalism" and then what word will we use when someone is *really* intent on causing damage?)
Deleting an untagged way that has been sitting around for a longer time does not cause any damage (the way would not have shown up on any map, or be considered in any kind of evaluation). Deleting such a way is at most a missed opportunity to improve OSM (by finding the right tags for it) - it is not something that makes OSM worse than it was before!
My personal approach to stuff like that is looking at who made this. If it is something that was done by a mapper 10 years ago and the mapper was called "student_12345" and was active for two days, then I will likely delete the lot. The same if I find that the mapper was called "import_abc" and has uploaded 500 changesets with broken stuff. If the original uploader was careless then I will not apply the care they have been lacking.
If, on the other hand, the data has been created by someone who seems to still be active in OSM then I will probably add a changeset comment asking them to look at it.
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