The rule I'm trying to implement, "A Wikidata item cannot be connected to more than one OSM item", might also be interpreted as a DRY rule. But I'm at least proposing part:wikidata, so we can have the benefits of DRY, as well as easiness of tagging WET tags.
sri, 11. ruj 2019. u 14:59 Paul Allen <[email protected]> napisao je: > > This will come as a shock and a surprise to people on this list, but some > open-source > projects become obsessive about an overly-rigid interpretation of rules. > In this case it is > that if there is a property shared by all members of a group then it MUST > be marked on > the group ALONE and not also on individual members. It doesn't matter > that users would > find it far more useful to be able to see that an individual saint is > canonized, those users > MUST be savvy enough about Wikipedia rules to know that they should then > look at the > parent group in order to get all the information they wish. DRY (don't > repeat yourself) > is rigidly enforced. > > Yes, I've been bitten by this before. Marking up Wikimedia images as > being listed > buildings. All went fine until I happened to mark a few that were > collected in a group > of "Listed buildings in <Location>." Those changes were reverted because > the > grouping itself was flagged as being of listed buildings. It matters not > that when > individual buildings are tagged the tag includes the listed building ID, > which links > to an external page describing the building and its reason for listing, > whilst the > collective tag cannot have that information. It matters not that if you > look at non-grouped > listed buildings you see clearly that they are listed buildings but if you > look at > grouped listed buildings you have no idea that they are listed. DRY. > Rules is > rules. > > Anyone who thinks the preceding paragraph is off-topic because it's about > Wikimedia should try to recall all the times on this list when somebody has > insisted that rules is rules, even when the outcome of following those > rules is sub-optimal. >
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