Apparently folks found its way into Levis Stadium with OSM renaming it 
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A user went through and changed all the names: Changesets by Cretaceous Muffins | OpenStreetMap
San Francisco Bay Area and Toronto ended up with no name at all…
At Levi’s, @Cretaceous_Muffins only stripped the FIFA name from the building, leaving it on the stadium and site relation. Probably shows they weren’t paying much attention.
The one meaningful change was sport=, but they didn’t widen it into a regulation pitch. The venue is designed to accommodate either sport. At a typical high school stadium, the soccer markings are overlaid onto the football markings. Here, they completely replace the field as needed, but soccer is rare enough that I’ve never come across the soccer field in aerial imagery.american_footballsoccer
I guess we could split the difference: sport=football. 
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sport=football + football=by_hand and football=by_foot?
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For the name in the building, all of the other stadiums did not have any name=* tag in the building=stadium area. San Francisco is the only one that has a name in the building=stadium area and not only in the leisure=stadium relationship. What is the convention? The OSM Wiki does not specify, but as stated, the current use if you check the other major stadiums is having the name only in the leisure=stadium relation and not in the building=stadium area.
Also, for clarification: the changes made were not to “comply with FIFA’s sponsorships rules”, they were made to aid in navigation for the on-the ground reality during the World Cup; international visitors going to the stadiums will never see the names “SoFi” or “Arrowhead”, they’ll be looking the venues up with their current temporary names.
But yes, a consensus is in order. Two of the stadiums, including MetLife, were already renamed before yesterday, and different users put the normal name in different tags, one user put it in alt_name while another put it in old_name.
It isn’t specifically about stadium buildings. A similar thing can happen for instance when a school building is nearly synonymous with its school grounds. A map that focuses on points of interest might only pick up the stadium while a map that focuses on buildings might only pick up the building. I don’t think there’s a strong consensus either way globally, only that we shouldn’t invent descriptive names like “Spartan Stadium Stands” when the proper name isn’t specific enough.
For what it’s worth, in the Bay Area, some enclosed stadium buildings are also named, such as Stanford Stadium (which incidentally replaced a building that hosted the ’94 World Cup). Some other stadium buildings have addresses, years of construction, or architects on them, leaving a conspicuously missing name.
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Meanwhile in New York, Nike rebranded one of the subway stations for their street soccer tournament:
The normal station name is only visible on maps and some of the platform signs. The tournament is only two days long, so this will have to be an OHM exclusive.
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After another survey and late-night pair mapping session, Levi Strauss is back. Though let’s be honest, he’s been there all along.
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As a final follow-up, I went through stadiums renamed by @Cretaceous_Muffins to verify if they had already been renamed to their usual names. Four still needed updating: Azteca, Akron, Lincoln Financial, and NRG.
If only they were as keen with cleaning up after themselves as they were with renaming across the continent… This sort of stuff is why we put local mappers first.
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The passive aggressive remarks included in the changesets themselves are unnecessary. It was a mistake to change them in the first place, yes, but it would be a repeated mistake to change them again for the exact same reason. That’s why the detailed explanations of what was changed were included.
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I can do straight aggressive if you prefer: you should have cleaned up after yourself and it sucks that you didn’t and you left it for others to do weeks later instead
Changing it back wouldn’t be a repeated mistake, it would be a revert, we do this in OSM all the time
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You created a mess, others told you not to do and afterwards you left the clean up to the others and now complaining about they are pissed about it…
Hey everyone, four stadiums in North America had a name=* that was at most a few weeks out of date during the off-season. It wasn’t ideal, but it could’ve been a lot worse. I think we can all let it rest for now. Let’s save it for the debate four years from now about how to name=* the stadiums in host cities that we name=* trilingually.
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Are you daring FIFA to rename Camp Nou and Bernabéu in order to make Spain withdraw? 
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I was thinking of other side of the strait, but you’re right, we might need three threads just to contain the inevitable disagreements.