Since you asked, I think that's an overreaction. It's one small edit, seems likely it was a mistake by a new user, and the user responded when contacted. I don't know why we should demonize someone because they tried to add their business to OSM and messed up.
On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Greg Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this is still a question for the DWG. I agree that it would be > great to look at case from a positive perspective. In that respect, It > would have been great if they just added a poi for the business, address, > etc However, when you look at the user page, > http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Cheryl%20Daly, then you see that it was > all about advertisement. Changing a street name to the person's name and > business and using the change set description as yet another form of > advertisement, http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/25304540, then you > see it was nothing more than vandalism. > > The map has been fixed. Perhaps the real question for DWG is should the > person's bio page, the person's bio icon, and the change set description be > scrubbed by the DWG? Moreover, should the description say, "Removed > because of vandalism." What do you think? > > Regards, > Greg > > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:31 AM, Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It happens sometimes. Had a campground respond and ask if I'd be willing >> to detail map their property for them. >> >> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 3:20 AM, Hans De Kryger <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> I'll attempt to reach out. But it always seems that these one edit users >>> never respond. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Hans >>> On Oct 9, 2014 1:12 AM, "Shawn K. Quinn" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, 2014-10-09 at 02:44 -0500, Paul Johnson wrote: >>>> > Yeah, umm...I realize I have a bit of a history on this subject that >>>> > I'd rather not rehash in detail right now, but I'm going to have to >>>> > concur that we should not go zero to vandalism accusations for what >>>> > definitely seems well within a reasonable doubt of being a good faith >>>> > newbie attempt gone wrong. Did anybody try reaching out to the user >>>> > and offering to help? >>>> >>>> I reverted the edit (to minimize the damage), but I'm not nearly as >>>> comfortable doing the reaching out part at the moment. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Shawn K. Quinn <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-us mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > >
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