I'm wondering how to relate key people to companies, when the exact
names of their roles have to be maintained.

Some examples are below. To pick out one motivating example, the
Japanese term "代表取締役社長" is called "Representative Director and
President" by T&D Holdings, but "President and Chief Executive Officer"
by NTT Docomo.

(Ebara use the very slightly different "代表執行役社長" for what is
basically the same role, calling them "President [and] Representative
Executive Officer".)

NOTE: this is not something that we can normalize. So, just using a P169
(CEO) property for both of them would not work. And it isn't a "also
known as".

In other words, calling the boss of NTT the "Representative Director and
President" would be incorrect, as would calling the boss of T&D the
"President and Chief Executive Officer".


I'm wondering if I should still relate them with P169, but then also use
two P1448 (official name) relations (attached to that P169 relation, as
qualifiers?), one each for Japanese and English?

The idea of adding lots of new property children, descended from P169,
for each possible combination of the Japanese and English name for the
title, feels very wrong. Even if there are only 5 to 10 possible
combinations.

Any other approaches?

(If anyone has an example in a language other than Japanese, I'd love to
hear them.)

Thanks,
Darren



代表取締役会長     Representative Director and Chairman    T&D Tetsuhiro
Kida  喜田 哲弘
代表取締役社長     Representative Director and President   T&D Hirohisa
Uehara 上原 弘久
取締役（社外役員・非常勤）   Director (outside officer, part-time)   T&D
Haruka Matsuyama    松山 遙

代表取締役社長     President and Chief Executive Officer   NTT Kazuhiro
Yoshizawa  吉澤 和弘
取締役     Member of the Board of Directors    NTT Teruyasu Murakami
村上 輝康   (outside director:社外取締役)(independent director:独立役員)

取締役会長       Chairman of the Board   Ebara   Natsunosuke Yago    矢
後　夏之助
代表執行役社長     President Representative Executive Officer  Ebara
Toichi Maeda    前田　東一

Director                取締役 Ebara   Toichi Maeda        前田　東一
Independent Director    取締役（社外） Ebara   Sakon Uda   宇田　左近


https://www.td-holdings.co.jp/en/company/management/
https://www.td-holdings.co.jp/company/management/index.html

https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/corporate/about/outline/index.html
https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/corporate/about/outline/index.html

https://www.ebara.co.jp/en/about/corporate/about/executive/index.html
https://www.ebara.co.jp/about/corporate/about/executive/index.html

_______________________________________________
Wikidata mailing list
Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata