keithonearth (2020-10-07 01:18:01+00:00): I have received a direct message about this changeset from [user NM$L](https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/NM$L). I think it is more useful to discuss it publicly here, so I am posting my response here, with NM$L's original message quoted below.

The main thing is: If I changed the name tags on areas under actual control of the People's Republic of China (PRC) then I was in error.

I had found a bunch of places in India and Bhutan that only had Chinese names. Often weird Chinese names, like [村17](https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/4476566701) (village 17), [湖泊Q](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/400964370) (Lake Q), [湖泊Y](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/450918748) (Lake Y), [湖泊z1](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/225467354), [河流G1](https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/164510561) (River G1), and that sort of thing.

I'm sorry if I got mixed up and this changeset is in an area administered by the PRC. 

That said, I don't think there is a rule saying that name tags in all disputed territories should be bilingual, though I agree it could be useful at times. 

There is the [on the ground rule](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Disputes#On_the_Ground_Rule) that specifies that we should use the name tags of those used by the people who live there. As such it is very important that you are sure that the land in question is actually administered by the PRC, prior to adding the values in name:zh tags to the default name tag. I see your userpage makes a strong political statement about the "unity and territorial integrity" of the PRC, and I think it's important to remember that the OSM database is not the place for political statements. I also see you are interested in editing the PRC's boarders, and seem especially interested in disputed territories. My Chinese language skills are very poor, but I understand your statement "中国一点都不能少" on your userpage to be a nationalistic slogan, encouraging the PRC's territorial claims. I'm concerned that you may be biased. I hope you are not.

In any case, thank you for bringing the potential error to my attention. As I do not know if this land is administered by the PRC I cannot say if the default name tags should be Chinese or not.

Keith

On 2020-10-06 11:16:47 UTC NM$L wrote:

> Dear keithonearth,
> 
> The place name in the disputed area of China and Bhutan shouldn't be moved into `name:zh` tag. The name of both country should be shown on the map such as [Diaoyudao(Diaoyu Island), or Uotsurijima Island](https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1270194) which written in both Chinese and Japanese. But now it seems that Bhutan haven't named them. And if Bhutan named these place too, the name should be written in two language. And also, I think this area is actually controlled by China. We've even set an administrative village there in 2016 called [Jieluobu, or 杰罗布 in Chinese](https://www.baidu.com/link?url=fEmOWN8yHD4sBtyGx1qjp8Q8kpVWtmLEBVxpvcdX15EloJExuHjRGSqoWGs_aUpw8jhMiZEUJT9k8oNqp8HWLGdgJf-L9Gn8Qsu1Ip496DGs5bJp04GEvfOxKHFBLF_-&wd=&eqid=e9189905000b5907000000065f7c4c62), whose [node](https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/7978112357) was recently added by me and there're 23 herdsman living in Jieluobu by 2019. So what do you think?
> 
> User NM$L