Member of DWG and member of the community.
Did you know what are the rule for the use of revert tool ?
Does it’s okay to go beyond the warnings here JOSM/Plugins/Reverter - OpenStreetMap Wiki
And first, go against the caution :
Do not revert changes by other users without contacting them first in a polite way and giving them enough time to reply (one week minimum).
There is a recommandation page of “how to use revert tools” that DWG agree with ?
Hello - Andy from the DWG here.
The wiki pages that you link to include a few caveats (including technical caveats). Sometimes the technical knowledge needed really is quite high - for example this page says “It utilizes the Overpass API” but that has a few impacts on freshness of data and frequent usage limits that people (even quite experienced OSMers) may not understand, because these things aren’t always particularly well documented. Similarly, the JOSM page doesn’t warn about the likely length of process (it can be very interactive) and the perl scripts don’t warn about the flags that can be set to make reverts more likely to either succeed completely or not happen at all.
It’s pretty rare for us to set explicit rules around revert tools beyond what the wiki page says. When we do, it’s usually because they’re used as an alternate to discussion (sometimes by both sides in a dispute).
Quite often we find that when people ask questions like this that there is a specific reason - something that they have just done has been reverted. Sometimes there is a valid (or at least partially valid) reason for that revert, but actually both sides in the dispute need to talk to each other rather than (a) reverting or (b) just remapping what was reverted.
In most cases the best place for a discussion about “how best to map X” is actually this forum, since as well as the “initial sides” in the dispute, it’s visible to everyone else too.
