On 12/02/2016, Hakuch <hak...@posteo.de> wrote: > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Remove_suffixed_name-tags_from_wiki > > It was approved with 38 votes for, 10 votes against and 1 abstention. > > Approved due to >74% approval (79.167%). Wikipages has been changed > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Key%3Aname&type=revision&diff=1271795&oldid=1267803 > Key:name > > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=Template%3AMap_Features%3Aname&type=revision&diff=1271784&oldid=1204516 > Template > > thanks for participation
Sorry for the late reply, I was quite busy and it took me a while to bring a constructive reaction, after letting go of my initial annoyance. There was not enough consensus to justify accepting and enacting the proposal. Looking just at the vote counts but ignoring the discussions around it makes little sense. The opinions were varied, but there was clear support in keeping the name_N documentation, both for the basic principle of documenting current practices, and because some contributors believe it is a better way of tagging multiple-value fields. If anything, name_1 needs to be kept because it is sometimes technically needed, even if it isn't the prefered option. On top of that, this isn't an "either-or" case where if we choose one scheme we need to deprecate the others. I've reverted the deletion, which makes as little sense as deleting the Semicolon page would. To make things a bit more constructive, I've also created a page documenting MV tagging in general (trying to gather all the points mentioned during last month's threads, sticking to current practices, not advocating for one scheme over another) and made other tweaks to the name pages. Feel free to discuss here or on the wiki. As an aside, using a wiki proposal just to decide what should go in the wiki, rather than what should go in the db, is a strange thing. By the time you reduced the scope of your proposal from deprecating name_N to merely un-documenting it, when it became clear (?) that name_N had an important role to play, the proposal was IMHO dead on arrival. I nearly didn't bother casting my vote against it. _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
