Have not looked at the edits, but the changeset comment:

"Remove place tags on administrative boundaries in Massachussets, remove
admin_center/seat members that pointed to town/city halls, rename
admin_center members that pointed to places to be label members instead"

...sounds like a correct edit

Likely the user is correcting issues identified by the boundary validator
tool that I've been running since January 2024:

Discussion:
https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/announcing-us-boundary-tagging-qa-checker/107744
Tool: https://zelonewolf.github.io/wikidata-qa/

That tool should be producing findings that are consistent with US
community consensus based on the discussion there and in other community
discussions.

If not, please open a ticket so I can make fixes:
https://github.com/ZeLonewolf/wikidata-qa

On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:

> I noticed this while zooming in to Lancaster, and seeing that the
> relation seems to point to South Lancaster (a named place) as the
> center.  That's argubaly reasonable, and I wonder if it was the
> judgement of a local.  I also wonder if this edit, which looks large
> enough to fall under the mechanical edit policy, was discussed.  I don't
> remember seeing it here.
>
> https://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/168002357#map=9/42.147/-71.884
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