Wikipedia has had a behavioural guideline like this since almost the beginning with the nickname WP:BITE: Please do not bite the newcomers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_do_not_bite_the_newcomers On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 7:25 AM john whelan, <[email protected]> wrote: > These days I'm retired and use my old age pensioner bus pass to grab a > free coffee. Often there are strings attached like a group of politicans > or journalists etc. floating around. > > Today I got cornered by one who had been on the receiving end of a > communication from a mapper saying they had made a mistake on their first > attempt at mapping. > > It was a couple of years ago and the message was a little on the > aggressive side. The receiver still remembers it clearly and in their mind > OSM was a well this not the place to use those sort of words. > > When you send a message to a mapper you don't know who they are. You are > representing OpenStreetMap when you send a message so please put your > passion to one side and be gentle with the poor things if only so I can > enjoy my free coffee in peace. > > I do sympathize, I've come across a lot of suboptimal mapping in my time > and mentally expressed exactly the same thoughts that were expressed but I > do try to count to ten before sending a polite note that says did you > really mean to map this this way? Have you read the wiki here which gives > guidance? > > And yes I know those who read this mailing list would always be polite but > I couldn't think where else to post it. > > Thanks John > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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