On the wiki page for the Wikipedia tag [1]

"only provide links to articles which are 'about the feature'. A link
from St Paul's Cathedral in London to an article about St Paul's
Cathedral on Wikipedia is fine. A link from a bus depot to the company
that operates it is not (see section below)."

what you do is similar to the bus depot example of what not to do.
Perhaps you could use "Secondary Wikipedia links" (see [1]) to resolve
your problem.


The discussion of the Starbucks usage was a.o. in the thread of [2]

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikipedia
[2] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-January/075432.html

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 11:14 AM Peter Elderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Where can I find that discussion / decision?
>
> Op do 10 jan. 2019 om 10:16 schreef Marc Gemis <[email protected]>:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 4:20 PM Peter Elderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > The wikipedia page is not a list, it is a description of what a TOP is in 
>> > Nederland. A wiki page about trailhead tagging is not the right place for 
>> > that. I think this is within the scope of the wikipedia key.
>>
>> Just as it was discouraged (aka "please remove the tags") to tag every
>> Starbucks cafe with the Wikipedia link of Starbucks, I think the
>> linking an individual TOP point to the general description of TOP
>> should be discouraged.
>>
>> m.
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