Hoi,
When someone or something received an award, it is needed if only to
complete the list of recipients of that award.. There is no benchmark for
enough information. The notion that you a Nobel award winner is not
relevant is poppycock. With automated descriptions awards do show.
When you only considered the current sub par fixed descriptions you lose
out big time.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 31 May 2015 at 15:01, Markus Krötzsch <markus(a)semantic-mediawiki.org>
wrote:
On 31.05.2015 11:28, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Am 30.05.2015 um 21:12 schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
Hoi,
How about people who have received an award and complete the list of
people who
were awarded ? How about people who had a position and complete the list
of
people who held that position ? How about people who are parents between
a
famous grandfather and a famous grandchild ...
In such a case, they would either have a statement stating the
award/position,
or have incoming, because they are used on statements on other items,
e.g. as
the father or child.
If they have no statements, and are not used in statements, I do not see
how
they could be structurally significant.
Interesting example. Just having an award (but no incoming statements or
sitelinks) might not be enough. It would just tell us "somebody received
the award". We need some statements/sitelinks/descriptions that tell us who
exactly that person was.
Jane proposed a good benchmark question: do we have enough information
about the item to detect and merge duplicates more or less automatically?
Items where this is not the case should receive special attention -- and be
either stabilised or deleted eventually. For persons (P31:Q5), the name
(label) can go a long way to identify items. Awards are probably too weak
to integrate information over (even specific things like "the 1981 Nobel
prize in Chemistry" might not have a unique award winner; and the absence
of a Nobel prize will not be noticed as an incompleteness for a person, so
an item about the same person that misses the award statement will not be
detected as duplicate).
Regards,
Markus
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