Dear Ótzï fón GlüϷgor, dear Иван2026,

the community is unhappy about your additions of German names to various places in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Adding a “name:de” tag requires that the name is in actual use today - that a German-speaking person would actually say “Ich fahre nach Königsberg” instead of “Ich fahre nach Kaliningrad”.

It has been pointed out to you that many of the names you have added to not fulfil this requirement and would at best be valid as an “old_name:de”, if at all. But you have not taken this advice and in some cases even reverted the edit when someone else has moved a name:de to old_name:de.

Please stop adding name:de to anything; we don’t trust your judgement on this any more. Your past name:de additions will be removed and your account remains blocked for four days. Please do not create secondary accounts to repeat these kinds of edits; we will spot them and we will suspend your OSM editing privileges completely if you do that.

Best regards
Frederik Ramm
OSMF Data Working Group
Ticket#2026031710000235