wikidata tag added to thousands of place nodes. Automated mass edit?

I read a post on talk-ca in which someone from Canada suggested adding wikidata tags in Canada, via a task manager, and I thought well that sounds like a measured approach. Seeing people adding automatically matched wikidata tags world-wide without prior discussion certainly is something else. Apparently I misread “Join for a more data rich Canada”… I’ll revert these mechanical edits but archive them so that if in the future a decision about mass-adding these tags should be reached, the work was not for nothing.