Hello Tom,
You should have a look at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Label
The current policy is to use the description of items to do disambiguation and use as label the "natural" name. For example, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7020301 should have as label "Newton Lower Falls" and as description something like "village in Massachusetts".
Cheers,
Thomas


Le mar. 29 déc. 2015 à 08:56, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> a écrit :
I'm pretty sure ambiguation is not a word, but what are the guidelines on removing disambiguation information from names/labels of items.  Usually this disambiguation information was added to a Wikipedia article name to enforce their uniqueness requirements, but Wikidata has no such need and the presence of the information makes it very difficult to construct things like placename hierarchies which don't look clumsy/weird.

It appears that, in general, disambiguation text has been removed from names, but this isn't always the case.  Is it safe/recommended to clean up those that have been missed?

Here are some examples that I've collected:

Linden Park, Massachusetts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6552338
Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7020301
Harrington House (Weston, Massachusetts) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715508
Thomas Fleming House (Sherborn, Massachusetts) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715881
Peabody, Cambridge, Massachusetts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7157211

Is the standard the "natural" name or the invented name that Wikpedians came up with?

Tom
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