Are you sure you want to discard this change? Ok/Cancel

[Prateek]

When one tries to 'undo' a feature pending review, one is asked "Are you sure you want to discard this change?", and the options are "ok" and "cancel". As pointed out by my mother who has recently started Map Making, this is confusing. Even more so when the action being taken is undoing ("canceling") an edit.

Go upto anyone and ask them "are you sure you want to do xyz?" - they are most likely to respond with a yes or a no (or something like 'not sure' or 'maybe', but that's not applicable here). They might just say 'ok'. But no one is going to reply with 'cancel'! That is just wrong. So, I suggest that the options on that dialog box be changed to 'yes' and 'no'. Or even something more explicit like 'yes, undo this' and 'no, do not undo'.

Another thing: when one tries to 'undo', one should be asked 'are you sure you want to undo?'. If there is ever a situation where one 'discards', one might be asked 'are you sure you want to discard?'. But don't unnecessarily refer to the same action by two different names.

I had never paid attention to this earlier, I'd just instinctively click ok. But as I see now, careful choice of words can make a big difference to new users!

[Prateek]

On the issue list: http://code.google.com/p/google-mapmaker/issues/detail?id=1544