Hello,
way/301517090/history has "bench=yes;no" and "shelter=yes;no". Which should it be?
Best Regards,
Andy

> "A40 Golden Valley Bypass,"

Yes - that's a description. It doesn't mean that it's an actual name. It certainly doesn't explain your use of the name as far as Gloucester.

> OS may not recognise the name but it certainly is used.

As I said above, "Golden Valley" is a suburb and the name is also used locally to refer to the bit of the A40 between Cheltenham and the M5 (hence me suggesting "loc_name" above). I've never heard ""Golden Valley bypass" used other than as a description and I've never heard ""Golden Valley Junction" used at all.

Thanks - I've merged these; the imagery is pretty clear and there are only 2 ways heading east. There's a hint of a gate on the southern bit, so I've moved that over there too.
As a bit of background to the "According to the wiki", "byway" is an old legal definition (actually 2 different legal definitions now) for a class of right of way in England and Wales, and has no bearing on the physical type of road - "designation" is used for the legal definition in OSM now.

Ah, so you've never actually been there? No problem, I'll have a look on the imagery and see what needs merging.

I'm somewhat familiar with the area as I have friends who lived there, and have driven the stretch of road from the M5 into Cheltenham lots of times.

The name "Golden Valley" is used to refer to the general area and (sometimes) by association to the road from Cheltenham to the M5. It's no more than a loc_name though, if that.
The name is absolutely not "Golden Valley Bypass", and that is even more wrong for the Gloucester / M5 link.
I suspect that the motorway junction is not called "Golden Valley Junction". Perhaps Falsernet can provide some photographs backing up this name? If not, then it should be removed.

For the information of all, this isn't the first time Falsernet has used dubious names:

http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=13341565

includes notes about some names that are literally just made up. Obviously those edits were a while back (as was this edit) so hopefully that isn't happening any more.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
What does the tag "M:hazard_prone" mean, for example on way/343818146/history ?
Best Regards,
Andy

Thanks for that.
Actually, from looking at one of the affected items way/343818146/history it looks like this tag was introduced about 7 years ago my someone else.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
What does the tag "M:hazard_prone" mean?
Best Regards,
Andy

To be clear, the wiki page osm.wiki/Proposal_process says "a vote result is never permission for large-scale re-tagging of existing objects. See automated Edits code of conduct for more about this topic"

See osm.wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct for what you should do before any automated edit (and yes, the maproulette tasks as written (change tag x to tag y) were nothing more than automated edits.

The wiki is unclear on many things, but on this it makes it very clear that what you did was wrong.

I've re-opened the discussion on the tagging list, and have suggested what might be the best steps forward. I suggest that you comment there.

Hallo,
Das sieht sehr nach einer mechanischen Bearbeitung aus. Wurde das irgendwo besprochen?
Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
Andy

Hello,
This looks very like a mechanical edit. Was it discussed anywhere?
Best Regards,
Andy

See also https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2022-December/066654.html

Looking at the projects linked to from https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/maproulette-request-for-comments-liking-and-flagging-challenges/5838/5 ,

27058, 26992, 26991, 26976, 26851 and 26850 look like genuine attempts to improve the data.

24298, 24297, 24296 and 24295 look like just trying to change one set of tags for another.

For example, diplomatic=high_commission is documented as an in-use tag in the OSM database.

The tagging list was contacted https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2022-January/thread.html#63778 and it was made clear to you that this WAS a mechanical edit. You ignored this and went ahead anyway.

Hello,
How's your memory? I'm asking about node/421786035/history which was added back in 2009(!)
That was originally added as "highway=waymarker", and has since been changed to "marker=stone". Is that the best tag for it, or is it maybe something like a guidepost (tourism=information; information=guidepost) or route marker (tourism=information; information=route_marker)?
Best Regards,
Andy

https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1p6y shows the situation before, https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1p6z after.

Hello,
Surely way/33755248/history is a duplicate of the now completed BOAT to the south way/895921980 (and presumably the gate on this belongs on that)?
Also what is "destination=byway"?
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
I actually render (or rendered) these. Whenever you're making tag changes like this please ensure that any data consumers know about your change. In this case https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/emergency#projects would have shown it at the time you make the change and (until I fix the rendering)
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/emergency=mountain_rescue_box#projects does now.
Any automated edits must of course follow osm.wiki/Automated_Edits_code_of_conduct .
Best Regards,
Andy

Oops - I see it's been renamed to emergency=mountain%20rescue?uselang=en-GB , but I don't think that that's the right tag, unless the team are based there? The wiki would suggest emergency=rescue_box now I think?

Hello,
node/2018366012/history was previously tagged as a mountain rescue box. Is it really not there any more?
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
I was wondering what "farmland=past" on way/1111566160/history might mean?
Best Regards,
Andy