On 11/03/2014 09:10 PM, Daniel Kinzler wrote:
Am 03.11.2014 20:31, schrieb Joe Filceolaire:
For many surnames there are list articles or disambiguation items that can be used as the target for this property but not, I think, in this case.
Note that articles about surnames often cover various spelling variants. This means that the value of the "surname" property may not use/show the "correct" spelling for the person in question.
I think there recently has been a tendency to move away from one Q incorporating multiple spellings in name descriptions. For example
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2782528 (Nelson) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15829860 (Nilsson) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16744689 (Nielsen)
Although one will find, e.g., Brigitte Nielsen claimed with the given name Brigit still. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q154519
best regards Finn Årup Nielsen