Many? Now you have gone crazy. The only overbuilt tracks in this edit are way/971353152/3. And since when are they overbuilt? Long ago? No, since 2020. All other restored tracks have very clear traces, the tracks at the round warehouses have even some rails still in the ground - a trace can't be more obvious.

So, "Many of the ways ... long since buried under houses or other new development." is another blatant lie from an admin/moderator. This is incredible.

I also think it has something to do with showing respect to each other. Personally, I just like to map such things, I enjoy looking for relationships between the old tracks and their remains.
Look, there are also many mapping practices that I don't like at all. For example, micromapping. When you map every single space in a parking lot. Or every flower pot in a 3D-mapped shopping center. This data takes a long time to load. It is extremely difficult to work with, especially if you are new. And yet I tolerate it - because there are people who put work into it, and it doesn't break anything. Just as these tracks - they don't break anything either, nor are they "false data". On the contrary - OSM-applications like Openrailwaymap thereby become actively more complete and simply ...better. But removing these tracks now ... i just don't see what is gained by doing this.

"Do abandoned railroads belong into OSM?"
Well, i see it that way: railway=abandoned primarily says "Here (On the ground, in 2022!) are some traces of an old RR". The traces here are the building shapes - they weren't built to look cool, they were built to have good rail access while using a minimum of space. Not to mention the track remnants at osm.org/edit?#map=21/33.73612/-84.41221

Also, the DWG can't say "This belongs into OSM and this not." They revert vandalism/copyright violations. What belongs into OSM - the community decides it - and the community decided: Everything on the ground can be mapped.
There is also a "sub"-community of rail mappers, and most of them also say former tracks like this should be mapped.

Don't they have anything better to do than deciding if these ten restored tracks can be kept?
If someone removes what i restored at changeset/118239176 i will treat it as vandalism (deletion of valid data) - because "arguing wouldn't acomplish anything".

No. The tracks i restored are definitly verifiable, with very clear traces. There are even existing track remnants on the linked area (which you deleted too). And there is the USGS topo map layer from the 80s. And then there are older USGS aerial images, public domain too. The "verifiability" is not a problem at all.
"let me know if you know about any such objects in Poland - I will delete them" - Yes, deleting other peoples work is fun.

You don't know what railway=abandoned means. It means: Demolished railway, but still traces. Obvious traces here are the shapes of buildings (especially at osm.org/#map=17/33.73655/-84.40938) and other things. There is more than 400,000 km of railway=abandoned worldwide mapped, the data is rendered by openrailwaymap.org. Whats your problem with such data?
I restored the tracks at the linked area, as there isn't any good reason to delete these.

Looks good now, thanks!

makes sense on this edit

wrong account

Wait, railway=abandoned is certainly not a tagging error. See the wikipage for what it means. (way/898568196/history)
Using "abandoned:railway" without "railway=*" is a tagging error. railway=abandoned means: "here was a track, but is has been removed. some traces are still there. The traces here are the cuttings in the wooded area.
abandoned:railway=rail (not =track!) would be correct, but only with railway=* together.

When keeping such roads, make sure to tag them as highway=track.

Be very careful with Bing in rural areas. It is almost always offset. Esri is almost always accurate, so use Esri/Esri Clarity as reference.

Hello, thanks for your contributions! However, you shouldn't tag every building as "prison". It would be better if you create an area for the entire prison, select "Prison", and add the name/adresss there. Otherwise: If someone queries the database for prisons, it looks like here are twenty prisons (since "amenity=prison" is used so often) - but here are only two. Same goes for the police station.

All? I deleted around 5 very small pieces of such lines. It is quite pointless to have such very small unconnected segments lying around, in my opinion

Hello, you can add such old railroads, BUT: If they ran on streets (tram tracks), you should add "railway=abandoned" tag to the road itself. Please do not draw a seperate way over the roads, because this makes editing extremely hard.
Message me of you need help.

I cutted it out.

To comment 2: Possibly. However, it could also be a sewage pipe. I don't know.

https://pvnpms.phmsa.dot.gov/PublicViewer/
Public domain data, select State >Florida and County >Duval
My guess is that JEA owns the lines, and Peoples Gas System pays JEA to use the lines.

Looks good, thanks!

4 Jahre zu spät aber ... Revert rein aus Prinzip? Ernsthaft?