Am Mo., 29. Juli 2019 um 09:26 Uhr schrieb Frederik Ramm < [email protected]>:
> > Frankly, I am worried about the obsession with tag "statuses". I > couldn't care less whether "abandoned=yes" was obsolete, deprecated, in > use, or even voted on; "negating tags" like this is are dangerous and > problematic and the wiki should educate people about this, full stop. > yes, generally yes, although there may be exceptions. E.g. landuse=quarry. An abandoned or disused quarry may still be seen as a quarry by the people living there. In this case, abandoned=yes doesn't negate the tags, it is a qualifier about activity. > If we explain to people why negating tags are problematic then they will > understand and not use them; this is far better than telling them "uh-oh > you've used a tag that is classified as a type-X tag under section Y of > the tag classification regulations, don't do it!" > > +1 By the way, it seems the wiki does not show "statuses" correctly for historic page revisions: it shows a status (the current one?) where there is none set in the template, and it shows statuses that haven't been in existence when the revision was published. Cheers, Martin
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