Hello,
A couple of key things about OpenStreetMap are osm.wiki/Verifiability and osm.wiki/Names#Name_is_the_name_only - you can't just make up names for things. If there's a sign that everyone can use to know that that really is the name - great. If there isn't then "name" shouldn't be set to that.
Best Regards,
Andy

See this help question for more details:
https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/82553/overpass-turbo-and-taginfo

Filled in gaps in 398069 North_Wales_Path

Hello Gordo4444,
Just to let you know, you don't need to concatenate all of the route names into the "name" field of each way that makes up a route like this. Lots of maps show the routes without being named like this; probably the most popular is https://hiking.waymarkedtrails.org/#?map=17!51.5156!-0.4897 where there's a nice button that you can use to highlight each route separately.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hi Timothy,
For info, what seems to have been happening here is that we think that a bunch of people are being paid to update mall POIs - nothing wrong with that per se, but these people are doing a really terrible job of it. As well as the info in OSM (blocks etc.) there's also a thread in OSM US' Slack https://osmus.slack.com/archives/CCJ2P6KCH/p1636558263041300?thread_ts=1635942793.029300&cid=CCJ2P6KCH .
Thanks for fixing this properly in changeset/113742401 with clear source information, so that the next time it gets a "random edit" that looks a bit odd, we've got something solid to go back to.
Best Regards,
Andy

@SekeRob I suspect that what's happened here is that OsmAnd is set to only upload chnangesets at certain times - perhaps the author of the change doesn't have active SIM card data in both Italy and the UK (OsmAnd is a mobile phone editor, of course).

Nodes accidentally moved to null island removed in changeset/113729037 .

Hello sillymaps and welcome to OpenStreetMap!
Thanks fir updating the map! Just one thing - you don't need to use the name "house" to say that a building is a house - the tags that get added ("building=house") automatically do that.
Best Regards,
Andy
PS: Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

For info: osm.org/user_blocks/5447 .

For info: osm.org/user_blocks/5447 .

For completeness - this user is in contact with the DWG, and we're asking about some of the changes in this changeset, such as the deletion of way/854027571/history here.

Thanks

Sorry about the large bounding box here - it made sense to revert all of these contributions in one go. It is just Italy and Nauru.

See comments on changeset/110097966 .I've deleted this in changeset/113672192 . Please do not add fictional data to OpenStreetMap.
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM's Data Working Group.

See comments on changeset/110097966 .I've deleted this in changeset/113672192 . Please do not add fictional data to OpenStreetMap.
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM's Data Working Group.

See comments on changeset/110097966 .I've deleted this in changeset/113672192 . Please do not add fictional data to OpenStreetMap.
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM's Data Working Group.

I've deleted this in changeset/113672192 . Please do not add fictional data to OpenStreetMap.
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend, on behalf of OSM's Data Working Group.

For completeness, there's now a discussion happening on the talk-nz mailing list at https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-nz/2021/thread.html .

Hello,
Can you point to where this "longstanding consensus" was documented?
Best Regards,
Andy

Sigh. And there was me thinking you were trying to find some sort of compromist.
For completeness, the other half of this discussion is on changeset/113586442 . There I asked kiwiAs to stop behaving like a stroppy teenager and to apologise to you; it now looks like you're just as guilty as he is of prolonging this edit war.
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend, from OSM's Data Working Group