Hello,

I'm writing this message to both of the participants in the "edit war" on https://osm.mapki.com/history/way/601817622 .

Clearly you disagree about how this should be tagged. However, I've not seen a comment from either of you explaining why you think that your tag (park or garden) is correct.

If either of you can link to pictures (perhaps from Mapillary or Bing StreetSide, if available) that backs up why you think it is best tagged in a certain way, please do link to them.

Best Regards,

Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM's Data Working Group.

This did a "full pre-vandalism revert" on ways affected by changeset/142935382 . See also https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/vandalism-and-blocks-in-israel/105176/71 and below.

"Reverting some undiscussed name changes; please discuss mechanical edits at https://c.osm.org/c/communities/ua/66"

The relevant issues are (a) osm.wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct and (b) the discussion at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/automated-edits-avinet-ua/99879 .
Where there have been names lost (e.g. a name changed and an old Russian no-longer-used name moved to old_name:ru) I've been reapplying them in e,g, changeset/142959562 .
Something like https://osm.mapki.com/history/way/636788737 shows the problem - we need to get rid of the mechanical edits by deleted users before we can start applying the correct changes - in that example at changeset/139291335 .
I'm sure that there are places where there really are no Russian names now (and way/636788737 may well be one) then please discuss it at https://community.openstreetmap.org/c/communities/ua/66 and get it applied - but first we'll need to back out the vandalism from deleted accounts, that deleted Russian names from all sorts of things, including rivers that cross boundaries, that surely do have names in Russian.

Oops - wrong account - should have been @SomeoneElse

"Reverting some undiscussed name changes; please discuss mechanical edits at https://c.osm.org/c/communities/ua/66"

"Reverting some undiscussed name changes; please discuss mechanical edits at https://c.osm.org/c/communities/ua/66"

Essentially, changeset/142842064 happened. A user created an account made some changes and immediately deleted it, because there were unwilling to discuss their changes with the community.

(for the benefit of anyone stumbling on this changeset) further discussion is at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/vandalism-and-blocks-in-israel/105176 .

Tagging these as "amenity=parking" is somewhat unusual. It's not unique - https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1CFs shows some in Brussels - but it's pretty unique in the UK.
It's probably worth discussing the best tag for these on https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb or (internationally) at c.osm.org .

Hello sivan00,
It'd be really helpful if you could use a changeset comment that's a bit more descriptive than "Fixes" - it would help people to understand what had actually been changed.
Best Regards,
Andy

Comment would have been "Reverting vandalism in eastern Mediterranean "

Hello,
It's probably worth checkin in at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/vandalism-and-blocks-in-israel/105176/7 - there's a risk that unless you're really careful you might cause some of the post-vandalism reverts that are in progress to fail.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
Alas, some of your edits have been to data that was vandalised yesterday. If you look at node/27647064/history you'll see what I mean. This is being discussed at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/vandalism-and-blocks-in-israel/105176/47 .
Best Regards,
Andy

Hallo,
Hierfür war eine Wiederherstellung im Gange, aber Ihre Bearbeitung hier hat dies erheblich erschwert. Wenn Sie sich node/27647064/history ansehen, werden Sie feststellen, dass Ihre Bearbeitung einen falschen Standort für den Knoten enthält.
Diese Rücksetzung wird unter https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/vandalism-and-blocks-in-israel/105176/47 diskutiert – bitte diskutieren Sie dort, bevor Sie weitere Teiländerungen vornehmen.
Beste grüße,
Andy

Hello,
A revert was in progress for this, but your edit here has made that much harder. IF you look at node/27647064/history , you'll see that your edit contains an incorrect location for the node.
This revert is being discussed at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/vandalism-and-blocks-in-israel/105176/47 - please discuss there before any further partial edits.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello sefabaris,
I've reverted this node name change in changeset/143305909 . Whilst there's certainly a discussion to be had about names here (the DWG has been involved in discussions of the name of Jerusalem in the past) and undicussed change is not the way to achieve this.
Please discuss contentious changes at https://community.openstreetmap.org before making them.
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend, on behalf of the data working group.

Привіт,
Я вручну повернув https://osm.mapki.com/history/node/1126251779 і https://osm.mapki.com/history/way/102744512 до версій до вандалізму. Відновлення вандалізму, зокрема changeset/143253317 за допомогою @bojicat389, уже було розпочато;. Ви можете стежити за цим на сторінці https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/vandalism-and-blocks-in-israel/105176.
Крім того, будь ласка, спробуйте використати більш описовий коментар до набору змін, просто «виправити помилки».
З найкращими побажаннями,
Енді

Hello,
I've manually reverted https://osm.mapki.com/history/node/1126251779 and https://osm.mapki.com/history/way/102744512 to the pre-vandalism versions. A revert of vandalism including changeset/143253317 by @bojicat389 was already underway;. You can follow that at https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/vandalism-and-blocks-in-israel/105176 .
Also, please try and use a more descriptive changeset comment just "fix errors".
Best Regards,
Andy

More post-vandalism tidy-up.