Guidelines: Expand on "deprecations are not for cleanup" #1357
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| Deprecation rules work such that the user sees a message with suggestions and can act only when editing the given element. This makes them well-suited for gradual, human-reviewed updates of taggings like crossings. However, they are not suitable for cleaning up incorrect tagging from the database, especially for low-volume changes. | ||
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| There are, however, alternatives to consider: |
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| There are, however, alternatives to consider: | |
| - You can simply resurvey objects in your area, sometimes mapping based on aerial imagery and other resources available for OpenStreetMap mapping | |
| - You can contact mappers (via changeset comments) and local communities (by creating notes, [writing on local community forums](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact_channels) and suggest looking at their local areas |
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maybe also note that checking area distribution and sample of edits may be a good idea? sometimes it is a single edit or single mapper
sometimes it is even revertable as bogus import or vandalism
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I agree those are good things to do. But the cases when I link to this guideline to close issues or ask for clarification seem to not fit into this category of local or single user edits and I think this makes this section too complex.
Maybe we should add a wiki page or a section on the organized editing guidlines to go into more details? This question of "how to cleanup values" should be common outside of this repo, right?
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But the cases when I link to this guideline to close issues or ask for clarification seem to not fit into this category of local or single user edits.
ok, I was unaware of that, then it makes no sense
Maybe we should add a wiki page or a section on the organized editing guidlines to go into more details? This question of "how to cleanup values" should be common outside of this repo, right?
+1 though I have no ready link - but if that case does not exist at problem at this repo we may simply not mention it
This topic came up a couple of times recently and I think it would be good to have a section on this in the docs.
My goal is, to have something to link to when a deprecation rule is added so that PR contributors know that the deprecation rules might not be the tool they are looking for.
This addition likely needs some polishing and I hope for input…