Hi - just for info, I've changed the wiki link from here from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nagorno-Karabakh to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Nagorno-Karabakh%20Republic , because that's what this entity is (admin level 3 for disputed statelet, not the region, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_Autonomous_Oblast , or some subset of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian-controlled_territories_surrounding_Nagorno_Karabakh ). As you can see from reading that, it's complicated :)
I realise that you were probably just removing the "https" stuff from the wikipedia link, but thought I'd let you know why I'd changed the link target.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hi poornibadrinath,
As can be seen from http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=234061921 this town has been through a number of name changes over the years!
I'm not convinced that having anglicised versions of Azerbaijani or Armenian names here makes sense. These were added in the previouse changeset osm.org/browse/changeset/47472163 by someone who appears to have wanted "names" to be anglicised, so they appeared on OSM's "standard" map in characters that they can read (it's difficult to tell for sure since they didn't reply to my questions). They also tended to favour Azerbaijani versions over Armenian ones, which might be incorrect here as it's on the "Nagorno-Karabakh Republic" side of the line of control according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aghdara_%28town%29 .
Adding some way of saying "this town is known as X but is also known as Y" certaining makes sense, but I'm not sure whether that's extra information to the already-existing language names.
Where did the request for the alt_name come from? If it was someone local perhaps they could help...
Best Regards,
Andy

Just a quick point about "For standardisation (make it possible to filter for this), ":
It's entirely possible to filter for whatever mappers tag things as, whatever you're using to consumer the data, For rendering, osm2pgsql supports lua (see https://github.com/SomeoneElseOSM/SomeoneElse-style for an example of that). Other consumers offer something similar.
Just because whatever you're using for data processing doesn't support a construct used in OSM since the dawn of time (tag1=value1; value1=more_descriptive_value2) doesn't give you an excuse to change things to match an obscure scheme that on an unrelated web page that no-one is likely to read).

This looks remarkably like a mechanical edit (just changing one tag to another). Was it discussed anywhere?

Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap!
One small thing - you're naming each changeset "small corrections". This doesn't really help explain to other mappers what change you're making and what the source of that change was. It'd help other mappers if you could explain in a little more detail each change.
Hope you don't mind me mentioning this; just trying to help.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap!
Just a couple of points - you've aligned two islands to Bing here, and they're a long way apart, so your changeset covers most of 4 continents. It'd be better if you could try and restrict the area covered by changesets so that everyone's "history" list doesn't see your changes.
Also, you've said "aligned to Bing" but how do you know that the Bing imagery is not offset here (which it often is - you'll have seen the warning in JOSM when you enable the imagery)? Do you have some other source that might help to confirm the (lack of) offset?
Anyway, hope you don't mind me mentioning this, just trying to help. any other questions please don't hesitate to ask.
Best Regards,
Andy

I'm sorry but you still haven't explained exactly _what_ you have changed or _why_ you changed it. For example, why did you change node/942584694/history but not, say, node/1261454510 ? Assuming that you haven't visited all of these places to survey them yourself or have other knowledge of them where did you discuss your proposed mechanical edit?
The answer to " Is someone hurt ?" is "we don't know" simply because we don't know everything that people use OSM data for. There have been mechanical edits which seemed (even to me) at the time to make sense but actually did not simply because I didn't understand how the tags were being used everywhere - that's why the mechanical edit policy has a requirement to discuss, so that problems can be found out before the change is made. Also, it gives anyone who is using the data of an "invalid tag" the chance to change.
Best Regards,
Andy

Thanks for fixing!

Hello,
"minor edits / repetition / redundancy / abreviation / duplication / contraction / shortening / cleaning up overbloating / " isn't really much more informative than "minor edits".
I really don't understand why you have made way/45547650/history triangular.
Best Regards,
Andy

@mxrev8 - you seem to be adding your "OSM is not a place for stalkers and bullies" text in such a way that makes _you_ look like a bully:
http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/osm-discussion-comments?uid=5571621

Rather than keeping repeating it, I'd suggest engaging with the rest of the community either here or on the talk-it list https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-it/2017-April/thread.html#58195 .
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend, on behalf of OpenStreetMap's Data Working Group.

@FrViPofm Yes, it looks like a mechanical edit that removes tags added by other mappers.

Oops (again) :)

Placenames in OSM should be in the commonly spoken local language. If you want to see names in latin script, try another map (such as the cycle map on this site)

Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap.
In this changeset and others you've changed some names from mixed language name to a single-language name.
Names in OpenStreetMap are usually governed by the "on the ground" rule - see http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf for details. Given the side of the de-facto border that this place is, I'm surprised at the removal of the Armenian part of the name.
You're editing from a non-local locale so I'm guessing that you're not local; what evidence do you have that your name change here is correct?
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend,
on behalf of OpenStreetMap's Data Working Group.

@FrViPofm - can you think of a good reason why this should _not_ be reverted?

Just checking - does the ISO code that you've added here apply to:
1) The territory held by the Polisario Front
2) The former state of Western Sahara
As you may be aware, there is more than one claim over the latter. If the answer is "2" then these iso codes don't belong here.
Best Regards,
Andy

Here you've changed e.g. the name of "Morocco" to not include French. Did you check that that change was acceptable to the OSM community in Morocco before doing so?
OSM generally follows an "on the ground rule" with regard to names - see http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/w/images/d/d8/DisputedTerritoriesInformation.pdf . In a number of French territories in Africa the language is still widely used; often "what is in the constitution" isn't a good representation of "what languages are actually used".
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap!
Here you've changed the "name" tag of Morocco from an Arabic/Berber combination (previously it was French/Arabic/Berber) to English.
The "name:en" (i.e. the English name) has been "Morocco" all the way through this process.
This changes the "name" for everyone, including those people who live in Morocco (and speak Arabic/French/Berber as a first language). When changing country names in OSM I'd always suggest trying to contact the local community first so that they're happy with any change.
If you're trying to just "see a map with English names on it" then on the OpenStreetMap site I'd suggest the Cycle map which does exactly that.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
Please don't add test data to the live OpenStreetMap Server. If you want a test server, perhaps https://master.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ would work for you?
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
Please don't add test data to the live OpenStreetMap Server. If you want a test server, perhaps https://master.apis.dev.openstreetmap.org/ would work for you?
Best Regards,
Andy