Removed name="?" and name:*="?"

[DenisCarriere]

Found many name="?" and name:fr="?" tags in Africa.

OSM features with issues:

• http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=4172940612
• http://osm.mapki.com/history/node.php?id=4120961835
• http://osm.mapki.com/history/way.php?id=128722394

Changesets to fix issue:

• http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43809570
• http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/43810069

Overpass Query

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/kcK

[out:json][timeout:600];
// gather results
(
  node["name"="?"]["place"]({{bbox}});
  node["name:fr"="?"]["place"]({{bbox}});
  node["name:en"="?"]["place"]({{bbox}});
  node["name:es"="?"]["place"]({{bbox}});
  node["name:ru"="?"]["place"]({{bbox}});
  node["name:de"="?"]["place"]({{bbox}});
  node["name:it"="?"]["place"]({{bbox}});
);
// print results
out body;
>;
out skel qt;

[DenisCarriere]

From Verdy_p:

You just hurt ongoing works where we've located villages. the displayed name "?" does not hurt at all. And the FIXME=* you wanted to "fix" were absolutely not incorrect (for various reasons, it is best to have this tag in capitals: it is a tag intended to be used and visible in editors, it is never rendered.

"FIXME=" is documented since long (as an equivalent of "fixme=") and users that place this prefer it for the work they have to do.

They are in capitals so that they remain visible in editors and not forgotten when the fix is applied (in which case, and only at that time it will be deleted). You are misreading the docs and want to apply a lowercase rule that only applies to semantic tags, not to such annotation tags, internal for working on data.

From Verdy_p:

That's because there are lot of pening work to locate the names and looking into various sources to determine which one is the correct one, or because there was an evident error in the initial edit, giving a wrong name, but for a real village.

It is not just someying you can check only with your simple JOSM validator (that knows absolutely nothing and does not have made so many checks as those I did patiently in compiling various sources, comparing them:

Burkina Faso really was a mess with lot of ommissions or errors, or nodes imported by bots from very bad sources (that were confusing many homonymoius entities and using extremely fuzzy geolocation, frequently shifting places hundreds of kilometers away).

I've done really a LOT of checks (and many more validation steps that those you've attempted here. YOU'VE NOT MADE NAY USEFUL participation in this area. So please stay away from it when you've not done any research and looked at the TRUE issues and difficulties that are to solve! Your action here was ONLY destructive.