I have just closed a second deletion discussion for Property:P107 - main
type (GND).
As with the first discussion, it is clear that there is a broad sense
that main type (GND) is not an ideal solution, however as it stands now, a
large enough portion of the community does not want to get rid of it
unless/until a replacement system is found or developed. For this reason, I
closed the discussion as no consensus and opened up a request for comment
on the matter of finding a replacement for P107.
I have gone to the unusual step of emailing the mailing list for three
reasons. First, P107 is the most used property on the project, and it or
its replacement will (most likely) remain the most used property on the
project forever. Second, the GND has evolved into a component of how
Wikidata is structured; our lists of properties are sorted by GND type, and
that has a real impact on what properties are used on what pages. The third
reason is that, as a general statement, participation levels in requests
for comment have been downright sad. Three or four people participating in
an RfC is, for a project of this size, unhealthy, and most RfCs don't get
more than that many people participating in them. For something this
important, we need at least a dozen people, preferably at least twice that.
</rant>
Anyways, the RfC is at
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Primary_sorting…
I hope that, with broad participation, we can finally resolve this
issue.
Yours,
Sven