Is fuel column the correct english word for fuel pumps?
If not there should be a red warning in this wiki page. 
It undoubtedly varies within the English speaking world. In the United States we would call it a gas pump. I am guessing that in other English speaking countries it might be a petrol pump but would be very surprised if the word “column” was used an any.
As a generic world wide understandable term, especially since the liquid could be gas or could be Diesel, I would use “fuel pump”. And there appears to be a wiki page for that too.
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A couple of web searches doesn’t find a ready source of people referring to “petrol pumps” as “fuel columns”, though some stock image sites clearly treat it as a synonym. Worryingly this OSM wiki page is the first “definition” that search engines find. Maybe ask the author of that? Clearly an example of citogenesis 
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The author is Corsa5 and seems to be Russian.
EDIT: Wiki is adjusted now.
While I do not think that wiki should be spellchecker and raise red warnings just because of that (e.g. many tags make no sense grammatically in English but are just fine to use) , I do agree that man_made=fuel_pump :
- has been used in the wild (at least) since 2012., thus greatly predating both https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:man_made=fuel_column (2021.) and its (abandoned) proposal Proposal:Fuel column - OpenStreetMap Wiki (2019.), as well as the usage of
man_made=fuel_column/amenity=fuel_columnwhich did not exist in the wild before 2021 - has more usage than fuel_column
- is more common/understandable English name (as noted by other above)
I’ve thus updated various related wikis to indicate that man_made=fuel_pump is the preferred usage.
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