On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Joseph Seddon <jseddon(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> currently there is no clear indication within Wikipedia articles
> and as far as I can tell within Wikidata as to both what *datum* and what
> *version* any particular coordinate relates to, there is no guarantee that
> any particular coordinate would be any more correct than it was before.
>
This definitely should be fixed on the wikidata side. Whether article
editors are savvy enough to know and enter this data is another question;
but at least the geotemplates should have fields for it and you can assume
that if those are empty some {person/bot hybrid} that understands that
nuance should fill them in.
~S