Hi!

>> there's some difference between external IDs and other properties -
>> namely, the former convey almost no information useful to a human
>
> Did you mean the opposite?

I meant when you're looking at the page for Douglas Adams, you can see
that his birth name was "Douglas Noël Adams" and this is useful for you
as a human reader. But before that, you see that his "LNB identifier" is
"000057405" and in 99.9% of cases it is not useful for you since you
neither know what "LNB identifier" is nor you need to see one unless
you're a Latvian librarian working on integration with Wikidata.
Now, I imagine there is a lot of uses for such identifiers, and I am in
no way call for diminishing their role or somehow questioning their
importance as data, but *presenting* it as the second most important
knowledge we have about Douglas Adams right after the fact he is a human
looks wrong to me.

--
Stas Malyshev
smalyshev@wikimedia.org

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