Hello cm81447,

As OSM members, we are well aware of the abbreviations guideline. It is not the case that "OSM does not allow abbreviations". In fact, England, the birthplace of OSM, has many localities which have "abbreviated" names such as St Ives or St Andrews. These are not expanded because they are not, in fact, abbreviations - that's just the name.

I would request that you would please familiarize yourself with _local_ OSM guidelines and perhaps discuss with the local community before changing the name of a provincial capital. As you are aware, local communities are free to set guidelines and norms which override OSM-wide guidelines - best exemplified by the UK examples mentioned above. The Canadian guideline is at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada/Tagging_guidelines#Municipality_Names .

Would you please revert this edit?

Thank you,
Jarek Piórkowski