Hi Nicholas,
a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general
rule, it's one article per person, not per name.
b) Different names is a quirk of the Wikipedia background - these
default to the title of the Wikipedia article on that person, and
there's no agreement on whether to put the article under the person or
the more famous pseudonym.
c) At the moment, yes, there would need to be separate Wikipedia
pages. I think for the specific case of people with pseudonyms,
Wikidata is likely to continue on a "one entity" rule even if we relax
the Wikipedia requirement.
d) I think the initial assumption was that there was a 1=1 match, but
if there are multiple musicbrainz id's representing facets of the same
entity, then Wikidata will support adding several.
Andrew.
On 31 July 2013 12:45, Nicholas Humfrey <nicholas.humfrey(a)bbc.co.uk> wrote:
Hello,
Can you help me understand the scope of a Wikidata entry please?
What is this Wikidata entry for?
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q272619
Is it for the person Norman Cook and all of his aliases?
Should that title be Fatboy Slim or Norman Cook?
Is it ok that it has different titles in different languages?
Do there have to be separate Wikpedia pages before we can create separate
Wikidata entities for the separate concepts?
In MusicBrainz there are three artists that point to the 'Norman Cook'
Wikipedia page:
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/3150be04-f42f-43e0-ab5c-77965a4f7a7d
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/34c63966-445c-4613-afe1-4f0e1e53ae9a
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/ba81eb4a-0c89-489f-9982-0154b8083a28
Should they all be pointing at the same Wikidata entry too?
Is it ok that there is only a single MusicBrainz identifier in Wikidata?
How is that identifier chosen?
The problem that we are experiencing is that our Triplestore is merging
all these concepts together into a single entity and I am trying to work
out where to break the equivalence, or if it is even a problem.
Thanks!
nick.
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