Hoi,

With articles it is obvious. The subject matter that will be provided IS what is advertised. This is NOT the case with re-directs. They point to somewhere arbitrary and there is no way to ensure that the redirect remains consistent and fits the subject of the Wikidata item well. This is relatively Obvious with articles.

Personally I doubt there is value in redirects. I find them very Wikipedia centric. Given the examples given, there was no Wikidata in the first place. Harvesting redirects is an exceedingly bad idea that will pollute Wikidata with many items we should not have.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 18 October 2014 13:12, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:

On 18 October 2014 08:15, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I requested P1472, I forgot all about it. It takes so long before

The proposal was mine:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P1472

> Wikidata is intended to include only articles.

That is simply not true, neither literally, nor in the sense in which
I believe you mean it (i.e. in regard to links to sister projects). In
the latter case, we include many statements, such as:

This item is the subject of this Wikipedia page
This item is the subject of this Wikipedia category
This item is the subject of this Wikimedia Commons category
This item is the subject of this Wikimedia Commons creator template

It therefore seem logical (and is certainly useful, as explained
previously) to also say:

This item is the subject of this Wikipedia redirect

You have already been challenged to give evidence that the latter
causes harm. Can you do so?

--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk

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