Re: [Talk-GB] Reverting all Liam123's edits

2009-07-21 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Peter Miller wrote: there are two ways to removed vandalism [...] the first is to repair the damage by moving things back to where they should be and re-entering the correct information in tags, the other is to revert the data to before the person touched it. While it would

Re: [Talk-GB] Reverting all Liam123's edits

2009-07-21 Thread Dave Stubbs
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 9:16 AM, David Earl da...@frankieandshadow.comwrote: For the record: I agree with Peter that we need to undo this user's changes, however it is done, and that it could cause large parts of East Anglia to be wiped out if data that happened to have his name on were to be

Re: [Talk-GB] Reverting all Liam123's edits

2009-07-21 Thread Alice Kaerast
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:00:25 +0100 (BST) Steve Hill st...@nexusuk.org wrote: If there is a user who (by general consensus) is making nonsense edits and is continuing to do so after having been taken to task by email, I would have thought the

Re: [Talk-GB] Reverting all Liam123's edits

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Miller
On 21 Jul 2009, at 10:05, Alice Kaerast wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:00:25 +0100 (BST) Steve Hill st...@nexusuk.org wrote: If there is a user who (by general consensus) is making nonsense edits and is continuing to do so after having been

Re: [Talk-GB] Reverting all Liam123's edits

2009-07-21 Thread David Earl
Dave Stubbs wrote: I really hope that this central working group doesn't get distracted by every clown in the world who messes with an area for a few hours after an evening in the pub! Most disappear quite happily without further interaction. The community can handle the

[Talk-GB] Protecting the work - Probation?

2009-07-21 Thread Nick Allen
Hi, One persons edits have created much talk as we are all worried about damage to the work that has been put into the project, and rightly so. When I started editing over a year ago I was worried (rightly on occasion) that I was damaging rather than contributing, and this actually made it

[Talk-GB] Protecting the work - Probation?

2009-07-21 Thread Peter Miller
On 21 Jul 2009, at 13:17, Nick Allen wrote: Hi, One persons edits have created much talk as we are all worried about damage to the work that has been put into the project, and rightly so. When I started editing over a year ago I was worried (rightly on occasion) that I was damaging rather

[Talk-GB] Amenities

2009-07-21 Thread Jack Stringer
Well I have got a few replies to my e-mails to a few places. One of which was Avon[1] Somerset Police. If I was to gather a the lists of places that we should be making sure are mapped onto the maps. Should I gather these up and put them into a database for all to see/use. I have mySQL on my

[Talk-GB] Protecting the work - Probation?

2009-07-21 Thread Godfrey Bartlett
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