This change, unlike the others by this account, actually seems plausible!

Whilst I can understand why you've merged the wikipedia links of the NK region node into one, are you sure that (a) the content of the pages was actually the same and (b) the content of the one that you're now linking to (the AZ one) is neutral enough to be acceptable to the locals, who see themselves not as part of AZ at all?

It would help if you used English instead of saying things like "for auto-detected data problems, like disambigs and lists". Not everyone is familiar with wikibabble.

Hi,
Should http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=98200263 be called the River Severn still? It had its name removed in this changeset - just wondering why.
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello johanemilsson,
This is geographically a very large change with no comment explaining what was changed. Can you explain what you were changing and why?
Best Regards,
Andy

Which was the duplicate way that got removed here?

Well, the DWG was sent lots of photographs of roadsigns and placenames in BE that in OSM are mapped in RU.

Feel free to corretc me with actual numbers, but my impression so far is that a _very high percentage_ of names in OSM in BE don't match the names on the signs. One of the arguments put forward was that they are official names.

For info, there's a widely-used tag for the "official name" of places: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/official_name .

For info, the last time there was a discussion about this the comments included https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2016-August/019125.html . It's going to get broken again (it's too big to manage effectively, as noted in https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-gb/2016-August/019100.html ).

You've added no source for the data and used a "created_by" tag that looks like it might be a source. That's why I said "It's unclear how wikidata was used here" (please do actually read the comments that people make).
It may be that you live locally and believe that the current tagging is a better description of what this object is, in which case please say so in the changeset comment, don't just list the tags changed (a fact which anyone can see from looking at the object history).
OSM is a community, not just a database for you to play with and test things out on.

"created_by=OSM+Wikidata 0.1"

Unfortunately, wikidata generally speaking isn't a valid source for OSM - it's mostly just copied from wikipedia which has an licence that is incompatible with OSM.
It's unclear how wikidata was used here, however, since there's no wiki* tag on this node.
Regardless of that, any "tagfiddling" like this (if it's not just a typo like "highway=pirmary") needs to be treated as a mechanical edit as per osm.wiki/Mechanical_Edit_Policy if for no other reason than to give data consumers some sort of warning that the data that they are relying on is going to change.

For completeness (and apologies if I'm stating the bleeding the obvious here), an "area:highway" is fundamentally different to a "highway; area=yes". Usually it won't make sense to change either the latter to the former or the former to the latter. There is at least one renderer that renders area:highway (much loved by people in Poland who seem keen on area:highway)

There were also examples such as way/374923973/history which were previously mapped as area:highway.

> Is anyone going to travel there from time to time to track the change for the map to stay up to date?
To be honest, it's how I keep stuff up to date where I live. Obviously (as Canadians on OSM lists point out regularly) that's less applicable to places with a significantly lower population density, such as Belarus: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.POP.DNST?year_high_desc=false .

However, the law doesn't affect how we generally map stuff in OSM - it's what's on the ground that matters.
Don't just take my word for it, either - here's an answer to a similar question elsewhere: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/2017-October/017990.html .

Thanks for this!
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello,
I think that this change might have included rather more objects than anticipated (including some not previously edited by andygol), such as way/420984991/history
Best Regards,
Andy

Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap,
Please don't add fake data to OSM (there isn't an embassy on the M1 just north of the Derby Road bridge - people would have noticed it).
By all means please add things that aren't currently mapped and really do exist - but don't make things up.
Best Regards,
Andy