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 removed because of the license process. We need a way to deal with this.
He keeps coming back, day after day, making nonsense edits, but not in a random way. It's not just scribbling. David Peter Miller wrote: > On 20 Jul 2009, at 22:32, Frederik Ramm wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Peter Miller wrote: >>> My reasoning is firstly many of his edits are clearly just plain >>> wrong and are certainly breaking previously good maps. Secondly >>> that he has failed to respond to a polite message asking him for >>> an explanation. Thirdly, given that he is not responding to >>> messages he is unlikely to agree to the new license! >> I cannot say anything about #1 and #2, but #3 must not come into the >> picture. It would be absolutely wrong to judge someone's >> contribution today, even if only in an ancillary way, based on >> whether or not he is likely to agree to some new license which we're >> not even sure will ever be implemented. > > That was not my point which was that there are two ways to removed > vandalism once one has determined that it is 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. In the situation where there > is a potential license change coming up the later seems the best > approach once one has determined that it is vandalism. > > Currently people are using a mixture of repairing the damage which > leaving the person in the IPR chain, and reverting ways one by one > which is slow. However... there is too much damage to efficiently do > this manually, hence my question with regard to a programatic removal > of the edits which I understand is possible. > > To be clear, this person has probably damage about 1000 ways in ways > that are visible and/or damage routing. He comes back to do more work > from time to time and we are having difficulty agreeing to have it > removed. > > I will ask again. Does anyone support a programatic removal of all > this person's edits? Does any object to a programatic removal of all > this person's edits. Before saying you object please check a selection > of his changes and note that some have been reverted already so might > look ok, but were not ok at the time. > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/liam123/edits > > > > Regards, > > > > Peter > > >> Bye >> Frederik >> >> -- >> Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" >> E008°23'33" > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
