My comment was meant to be terse, not rude. I think it is better to use that time to add new data to the map.

All of the paths removed in this changeset that I looked at appear to exist, based on aerial and street photos. 

A principle of OpenStreetMap is that you can map anything that is verifiable. So someone decided to map this one area in detail. There is nothing wrong with that. It is the role of the data consumer to filter unwanted data.

You should provide some sort of evidence that these paths don't exist, otherwise someone else may map them again, using the aerial photo as a source.