I’d like to leave a short clarification for the record and then step back from this community.
For context:
- I edited features related to Kenya based on my understanding of the current administrative structure and on official data I could find.
- For example, this record in Nyanduma Ward, Lari Sub-County, Kiambu County:
KMHFR | <!-- -->Kagwe Community Health Unit - I removed what I believed were spam or duplicate entries (such as “dumping_site”, “parking”, “stadium”), and I corrected a misclassification of a school after another mapper pointed it out.
This discussion (Wikidata-OSM cross project vandalism report - #31 by Taya_S) was opened by user “@YamatoShiya” and framed as a “cross-project vandalism” report connected to a separate dispute on another website about my name. My concern is less about the mapping outcome and more about how that personal dispute was brought into OSM, how my motives were characterised, and what has been treated as acceptable in this discussion.
My intention was never to erase the place because it shares my name, but to correct what I believed were outdated or misleading tags. I strongly disagree with suggestions that I was acting in bad faith or trying to “brand” the map around myself; my focus was on entity resolution, disambiguation, and cleanup.
If there are concerns about harassment or cross-project personal issues, I would prefer those to be addressed with the Data Working Group directly rather than in public forum threads. If I ever do return, I would hope to see future discussion about these features focus on current data and sources, not on personal attacks or assumptions about user intentions.