zluuzki (2022-07-11 12:10:47+00:00): Your arguments & what could be interpreted as argument:
- "you are creating an invalid data model with features that do no represent the real world" -> Some features do not represent the real world, yes, but whats the problem?
- "Drawing railways which DO NOT EXIST is incorrect information" -> If it's tagged correctly, it is correct information. If i tagged them with railway=rail and name=Old Railroad, then it would be incorrect information.
-"If you want map features from the past, that's what OHM is for. Not OSM" -> Boils down to "out of principle"
-"That is outright wrong for OSM and is not allowed." -> Out of principle. OSM dosen't has rules like "You are not allowed to map that kind of stuff".
-"These tracks DO NOT EXIST and no combination of tags will make them appear in the real world or satellite imagery." -> The goal is to have them in a database, not in the real world.
-"The fact that some map can not function properly without these non-existing features means there's a problem with THAT map that needs to be fixed." -> That 'fix' would be to spend thousands of hours re-mapping the old RRs from scratch in another DB, as i described.
-"Too many of the features you mapped HAVE NO TRACES left in the world world and impossible to confirm." -> That they were there can be (in 99% of cases) confirmed with USGS topo maps or other sources. Which disproves "100% imaginary mapping".
-"features that you added have no traces whatsoever in the real world, therefore can not be mapped." -> "Out of principle".
-"The problem is that they do not exist now and therefore do not belong on OSM. " -> "Out of principle".
Hope I haven't forgot anything.

Of course you're supposed to accept my reasons. And you're supposing that I accept your reasons, that's how a discussion works. Your arguments just don't convince me at all.

My arguments:
- "The point of having them in OSM is to render them in openrailwaymap.org. So if you're deleting them, you're damaging this project"
- "Abandoned railroads have with at least 90% probability traces, which are mappable. So it makes sense to add the remaining 10% to have a !very! good dataset regarding old routes. "
-"...You can't move things from OSM to OHM. It's literally illegal ... properly merging that data type from two seperate databases is very hard"
-"You're expecting me to spend thousands and thousands of hours of work, if I want good data, even though the same result could be achieved with SIGNIFICANTLY less work here."
- AND AFTER ALL, why do you even care? We're talking about a single line which goes thru a town. NOT an old city layout from 1940 on top of current data. How can you get so upset about a single line somewhere?
Look at https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/33.80943/-84.45441
An old railyard, tons of railway=abandoned next to each other. If these are now being built over with a new neighborhood, then I can understand if you delete the old tracks. Because then it becomes too confusing. But in this CS and almost all other uses of rw=razed, it's just a single line or maybe, rarely two. Why can't you just let people map it and be not so persnickety? I don't understand all this drama.