On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Maarten Dammers <maarten@mdammers.nl> wrote:

Hi Tom,

Op 29-12-2015 om 19:33 schreef Tom Morris:

Thanks Stas & Thomas. That's unambiguous. :-) (And thanks to Jdforrester who went through and fixed all my examples)

Please keep the long label around as an alias. This really helps when you enter data.

The guidelines say to move the disambiguation information to the description (which makes sense since that's the only information the autocomplete widget shows). Speaking of aliases, I got a chuckle out of the species alias discussion - "The label of Helianthus annuus (Q171497) is the common name, while the scientific name (Helianthus annuus) is featured as an alias"

I wonder if someone ever ran a bot to clean up these disambiguations. The US alone must be thousands of items.

From my observations, it appears that most, but not all, of the parenthetical disambiguation information was removed on import from wikipedia, but little or no comma separated disambiguation was removed. If P131 "located in the administrative territorial entity" was set correctly, it would be relatively straightforward for a bot to identify information to be removed, but, unfortunately, the bot that set all these, at least locally, (AudeBot) used an administrative entity two levels higher than it should have, making the property value useless. Fixing P131 first would make it easier to identify disambiguation information to be removed from labels.

Tom