Hm, I did not intend to add/change name, only access. Not sure what I did wrong here, I'll try again.

looks like the "highway=social_path" was not accepted/has been rejected.

its a bit of a grey area on how to tag desire paths (or at least it is to me)

perhaps path=desire / informal=yes might have been a better choice, since the local_path was not accepted/rejected

osm.wiki/Proposal:Social_path

Didn't realize email came from here:

You are right, footway would have been the proper thing to use

changeset/96756782

There's also fences missing, I probably should go look exactly where they are and add them