I don’t have specific comments regarding your suggestions at the moment, but I would advise adding the following additions to avoid future problems similar to Dalia:
Situations where armchair-modifying “name” to AR should be avoided:
- POIs whose Arabic name is not obvious and is hard to verify online, (and sometimes does not exist at all), that have no name:ar, or that have a name:ar which is a transliteration from Hebrew. Editing these requires local knowledge. Typically these are smaller POIs like neighborhoods or local roads.
If it’s a significant POI, it likely has an Arabic name and you can likely figure it out with searches. If it has a normal non transliterated name:ar and it’s in an Arabic speaking area, copying “name:ar” to “name” is not a problem.
I haven’t thought deeply about this and may have missed something.