Am 15.06.2015 um 18:11 schrieb Thad Guidry:
In General,
I think Wikidata needs to decide going forward if it will be a strict Entity Graph...or if it will be a Big Graph of all things Wikipedia. Its an important question...if it decides on the latter...then just give a way to filter out non-entities for the API and Search users.
I think there is a misunderstanding here. For practical reasons, Wikidata allows items about Wikipedia *pages*. Items that refer to Wikipedia list pages, or categories, or disambiguation pages, or policy pages, etc, are useful for managing these pages. They are conceptually different from items about "real" things.
I agree that Wikidata should not have items that *model* lists. But it can have items about list *pages* on Wikipedia.
That being said, I would love to be able to have a clear distinction between items about pages, and "real" items. To an extent, this is done via instanceof statements, e.g. instanceof -> Wikimedia Disambiguation Page. But it would be nice to haver an easier way to filter those out in contexts where they are not relevant.