Talk:Tag:cemetery=wood

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Needs a proposal

Given that cemetery=wood already has 6 times as much usage as cemetery=burial_forest I think you should: a) discuss it for instance on the community site or the tagging mailing list; and b) avoid deprecating another tag without discussion. I would suggest moving this page to the proposal format until you have done a). SK53 (talk) 09:20, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

A side note: "burial" is somewhat redundant for a cemetery (which is probably why a single word was chosen for the the alternative). SK53 (talk) 09:20, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

It is not a proposal, it is documentation for current usage. cemetery=burial_forest is more clear for me, but cemetery=wood isn't deprecated. You can drop "Possible synonyms" section, if you want. Something B (talk) 09:28, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Clarify

It is not intended to be used for overgrown cemeteries, right? What about say mass graves in forests? Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 09:31, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

This tag intended only for eco-friendly cemeteries, aka "memorial park", not for mass graves or very old, wooden but conventional cemeteries.
Is it maybe possible to find more narrow value? This is not bad, but seems possible to be misinterpreted Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 12:26, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Nonforest natural burial

"A natural burial grave sites." links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_burial which is defined as "interment of the body of a dead person in the soil in a manner that does not inhibit decomposition but allows the body to be naturally recycled. It is an alternative to other contemporary Western burial methods and funerary customs. "

Note that Wikipedia definition does not require forest at all

Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 12:27, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Of course, "natural burial" isn't limited to the forests at all, but this tag abouts kind of cemeteries. I simply document the current usage. Something B (talk) 12:32, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
I fixed the page, link to Wikipedia moved to the "See also" section as pure informative. Something B (talk) 12:39, 5 October 2022 (UTC)