Matthijs Melissen wrote: > Voting is now open for the proposal to unify the names of chain > shops within the UK by renaming them.
No, it isn't. Mechanical edits stand or fall by their own merits. They cannot be ok-ed by a vote. From the Automated Edits Code of Conduct: "We do not require or recommend a formal vote, but if there is significant objection to your plan - and even minorities may be significant! - then change it or drop it altogether." We historically have a low tolerance of mechanical edits and imports in the UK; we prefer to make large-scale changes by hand. That is one of the reasons why the OSM map of the UK is so good. A "come one, come all" vote on the wiki can be trivially gerrymandered into supporting your proposals without any proof of approval by the people who are affected by such a bulk change, i.e. UK mappers. I am not sure where you got the idea of a "vote" for mechanical edits (Wikipedia? wiki.osm.org tag pages?), but there is no precedent for it in OSM and I would ask you to withdraw it. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Voting-mechanical-edit-UK-shop-names-tp5822571p5822622.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
