I understand the intention behind the RFC but it's pretty clear that if
enforced these changes would effectively ruin Wikidata. This underlying
issue is that Wikidata does not have a good enough mechanism to fully cite
the way Wikipedia does, and even Wikipedia does not require the type of
granularity that would be needed to support every statement -- it would be
impossible. In Wikipedia you can cite paragraphs and be relatively safe.
I think this is why it is even more critical that it is possible to add
really robust, clean citations (not just URLs) to Wikidata. It needs to be
better because the validity of BLP concerns is not a trivial thing.
This whole issue is why I am obsessed with adding citations on Wikipedia.
If I add information I always try to cite it -- otherwise it has typically
been deleted. This often makes editing difficult, but how can this
requirement be made of the encyclopedias, Wikimedia Commons, etc. and not
of Wikidata? I understand a blanked CC0 or whathaveyou of a data set. But
for a lot of content -- but biographical entries especially? That's a
problem.
Not trying to be a pain and I want to support the consensus on this RFC but
hesitate to do so without further discussion of solutions.
- Erika
*Erika Herzog*
Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>*
On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 5:39 AM, Andy Mabbett <andy(a)pigsonthewing.org.uk>
wrote:
The current RfC:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Verifiability_a…
would make massive changes to the way Wikidata operates (for all
content, not just that about living people)
Very few people have commented. I urge everyone to read the proposals,
and to make their views known, as I have just done.
--
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk
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