Please be careful with mass modifications like this. Buildings will frequently feature non-90-degree angles, such as with bay windows, and squaring a whole neighborhood can have unintended consequences. Also, as you are the original mapper of the houses in question, consider mapping the buildings in more detail. As features go, the address point is far more valuable than the footprint, so if you don't feel up to digitizing the full footprint of the houses, I might skip it altogether. If you're serious about adding building footprints to OSM, try reaching out to the local government entities. DuPage has it, but it's copywritten, unfortunately. Will County, on the other hand, has an excellent, explicit Open Geo-Spatial Data License, and they provide footprints as well.

https://www.willcountyillinois.com/County-Offices/Administration/GIS-Division/Data/Vector

https://www.willcountyillinois.com/Portals/0/WillCountyOpenGISDataLic.pdf
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forgot to add sources: local knowledge and Mapbox imagery

You can't just assert that it isn't vandalism. You've removed valid data involving features clearly visible in aerial imagery, for seemingly no other reason than your personal wishes. As the original data contained no identifying information, nothing about it constituted a breach of privacy.

Thanks for the added scrutiny! It's a pretty big import, and I'll admit that when I evaluated the random samples from each county, I was mostly just looking at positional accuracy of the footprints. I may just strip the "height" tags out of this county altogether if discrepancy are as common as it seems.

Haha. Sorry, I thought I'd fixed that. I'll correct these and adjust the rest of the import going forward. Thanks for the heads up!

Ah, heck. Sorry about the size of the extent rectangle!

Bringing mistakes to the attention of their creator gives that person a chance to learn and avoid similar mistakes in the future.

crap. forgot to change the changeset comment...

Of course! I'm running an import, and had accidentally imported the buildings under my personal username, rather than the dedicated import account.

Was there a better way to transfer "ownership" of the edits? I've never had to do it before.

Thanks for the offer! Your comment came early enough in the process that it's <200 objects across 27 different addr:street values, so doing it by hand isn't too arduous.

Thank you again for you valuable input. I'll do as you suggest.

this is absolutely an inappropriate use of the platform. your "buildings" are being removed; please don't dilute the value of the data on here.

You're welcome. I was working on some HOTOSM tasks in the area, and noticed a "China Buffet" there, which led me to look a little more closely at those edits.