Julian ... I wish you would do something more useful than checking the edits of a mapper thats been around a lot longer than you.
In the course of this changeset, I stumbled across this "hamlet" which had been mapped as landuse=residential, place=hamlet ...by Alaska Dave.  
This NODE had been changed by a mapper to a Village, (for better visibility !) which made no logical sense as it sat in a relation tagged as a hamlet, and we don't "tag for the renderer"
I simply applied the correction.
Have you contacted Dave as the original mapper of the hamlet? 
I don't read the forum much any more as your attempts to change things for the future do little to address the problem of existing tags.
It's simply not easy to check the official status of a village/hamlet as I pass by, but after recording the name on my GPS, when I put it on the map, I take a look at the size of the settlement.  If its just a few houses, it goes in as a hamlet.... or Non-administrative settlement, as you might refer to it.  
I map what I see on the ground, (some call it Duck tagging https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Duck_tagging ), and will continue to do so.
Russ.