Yes, I think multiple identities attached to a single wikidata entity is the way to go forward. ~We talked about this briefly at Wikimania on Friday and the consensus was "still a bit unclear" ;-)
Once qualifiers are properly up and running we might be able to mark them as "preferred" or "main" relation vs. secondary identifiers (the main VIAF cluster vs the isolated entries, for example)
A.
On Sunday, 11 August 2013, Luca Martinelli wrote:
2013/7/31 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>:
> 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.
FYI, there is now a property for pseudonyms (
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P742 ).
> 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.
It is possible to put several IDs coming from the same database.
Actually, I'm trying to do this with multiple VIAF codes referring to
the same author, and it could also become a "feedback" to the original
database.
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