"You cannot unilaterally decide..."
- That's not my decision, that's a straight fact. That's how convinced I am of myself here! Narcissist? No, we're talking about data from the Tiger import, which was what I mainly deleted here. I think anyone who has ever worked with Tiger(power lines) will be convinced that their edits are better than TIGER.
If you're seriously questioning if my work on power lines is worse than orginal TIGER power lines, then that's extremely disrespectful. (I don't think you do, but it somewhat sounds like that)

Preserving history is important - but which history? None of the lines have more than two tags - power=line and voltage=*. Power=line is obvious on the aerial image, voltage is somewhat easily interpretable from other connecting lines. ("somewhat" because some people failed or just guessed some wrong values)
Nothing that I have deleted here was some kind of "special" information, no on the ground survey, no special data digged from the depth of government docs, generally nothing which isn't directly obvious, nothing which is worth preserving.

The claim that this data is/was "valid" is highly questionable. Straight power lines have countless weird slight offsets - sometimes even hundreds of meters. Better no data than being that imprecise, IMO.
(no data for a few months only)

I see that asking local people about it (e.g. on slack MS channel) would've been better and I apologize for not doing so. (and I won't do such deletions of low quality data anymore).
However, I don't see what should be the point of a revert now. I spend a lot of my time working on a solution which could have satisfied the interests of both sides - Not one sentence lost over this, and I'm once again supposed to be the idiot conflating this trashy TIGER data with the lines I already retraced (which are actually quite a lot) - so that I can delete them in two months again when retracing.