Talk:Keep the history

When does keeping the history go too far?

Recently, I sparked a discussion on Discord (in #general) about whether keeping the history would apply to many scenarios, such as changing the type of a relation or reusing old building outlines for new buildings in the same place. Discord seems to be more convenient than wiki talk pages for discussion, but Discord conversations tend to become lost in the archives more quickly, so I would like to document all the examples brought up on Discord on this talk page and eventually the subject page, before the discussion is forgotten. JriSv250 (talk) 19:46, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

I suggest you create a subpage like Keep the history/Discord discussion in February 2021 and copy the text there and add a link to the discord chat (if possible), so people do not have to sign in just to read the discussion. When altering the text on Keep the history, you can "cite" the subpage. --Tigerfell  (Let's talk) 21:14, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Was/is the complete conversation maintained here as well? Seems like this page could use some fleshing out. @JriSv250@Tigerfell, I am not involved in Discord (I personally find just keeping up with the wiki and Slack to be enough for me). IanVG (talk) 17:43, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

Closed Restaurant new Store in Same Place with additional Area

A restaurant just closed down in my area and a supermarket opened in it's place. The supermarket I believe also busted a wall and occupied some space in an adjacent building. Is it recommended to delete the node or reuse the node and just change the associated tags? Also, I don't know if this is the appropriate place to mention this- but this seems like a good time to say that having this object as a separate node and not associated with the building it's located in, was actually helpful (ie. because the node can be (possibly) reused even though the area occupied by node has changed (occupied some part of the adjacent building now).

Thoughts? IanVG (talk) 17:41, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

I would just change the tags. Something B (talk) 14:03, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

ID: node to area?

Can anybody update the procedure? I've tried several ways in ID 2.27.x (adding source to the new area and to the changeset, using previous node#, previous node URL, previous changeset#, previous changeset URL, with and without the hash) and nothing conserved the history. Additionally the merging of old node and new clean area with the old node as a corner of the area is not allowed. What works is merging of the old node and new area when they are separate -> in this case the node disappears and the area gets all tags from old node (expected behavior). The part "Remove old source=" and "add your source to the changeset" are very unclear (what is supposed to be in the old source tag? what value to put into source?).

When you convert node to area you can link them only by describing it on changeset Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 19:15, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

See also previously=*. Something B (talk) 21:39, 29 September 2023 (UTC)