Dear OSM user,

with this message we’re blocking a series of accounts that have engaged in repeated organised editing activities concerning US retail POIs. While not every single account we are blocking has made all of the following mistakes, collectively you have:

• made lots of edits you claimed to be “test tasks”
• made questionable and low-quality edits like drawing buildings over existing buildings or over existing trees and roads, adding businesses that were already there, moving the same object a dozen times over the course of a few days
• neglected to give good changeset comments (instead writing “task”, “done”, “f”, “ff” and similar useless comments)
• neglected to reply or react when others tried to engage with you in discussions about your edits

It appears that you are part of an organised group of editors tasked with editing POIs that represent certain retail outlets in the United States. We have guidelines that are intended to avoid issues with organised editing. These guidelines are documented here: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines and first and foremost the require that you clearly identify yourselves - who are you, who’s part of your team, whom are you working for and what are your goals.

Please review and follow these guidelines before making further contributions to OpenStreetMap. Contact data@osmfoundation.org if you believe that this is an error, or to get your accounts unblocked.

Best regards Frederik Ramm OSMF Data Working Group

This block affects the following accounts:

aivanova03 Alex Yakovenko Alexanderxxx1 alx_nizh AnaKazaieva andrew_kim AnnaNosach Annlesik1 Сhrystyna cmonkey d_ishchenko Danyaya Dmytry12 GeraKill gv0zdick Igor_Tranko Ivan Yaskovskyi janelyakh karina1 Ksenia97 Lindsey Fl Liza2711 Lucila Silbermann mishakrass Natalia28 natasshha28 nikuzia Oksana Chubatenko Oleg Osetinskiy ppvmariia SofiaPestereva tatianushka3891546 TPaHKBu3aTop trusov54 Valeryia2 Viktoria92 Vlad03 VladyslavP YanaKazna yuraskubak