Talk:What's the problem with mechanical edits?

name=* versus natural=* errors

Just for information, I know a cause of this type of error.

Not all the presets in iD have a name=* box (mostly for POIs that rarely have names, occasionally for POIs that often have names). So people go to the raw tags and type in "na" then the tab key to auto-complete. Sometimes iD thinks that natural=* is more likely than name=* for a particular type of POI. If you're not paying attention you may end up with natural=* by accident and not notice it.

Not that knowing a cause justifies automated edits, even in this case.