Has this un-discussed automated edit been reverted yet?

If you have visited it yourself then no further source is necessary and you can use source=survey.

It would probably be best to add a lifecycle prefix like "abandoned:" to the main key of the features so that it doesn't get added back based on other databases.

osm.wiki/Lifecycle_prefix

A suggestion to standardise tagging of links to Grokipedia has been rejected on the basis that it is largely junk.

It is not an acceptable source.

If they still exist they're perfectly valid for mapping.

Yes, I was aware that you arbitrarily changed it away from the tagging recommended on the landuse=orchard page to a weird hybrid of orchard and forest tagging.

It's in a farm and they were seen from a plane. It wasn't the best opportunity to see what fruit looked like.