Hoi, Why do you think Wikipedia is an issue? Why do you think that the label should not be overridden to something that makes sense in the context? Thanks, GerardM
On 9 July 2015 at 10:29, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
On 8 July 2015 at 13:32, Magnus Manske magnusmanske@googlemail.com wrote:
Silly question: Why not leave the system as it is (allowing for
non-unique
aliases), but do some (reasonable) cleanup, then warn Wikipedia editors
when
they use a non-unique alias? Like using references without the
{{reflist}}?
I like this approach a lot - presumably we already have such errors if you use an alias that doesn't exist, or try to invoke a non-existent P number?
However, there's one possible problem that I can see - someone creating duplicate aliases at a later date on Wikidata, and causing errors to pop up across Wikipedia as a result. (When added they were fine, but now they're ambiguous.) The editor might not realise this, and the first anyone knows is when the client wikis complain...
A.
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