Hello Wikidata users,

I am worried about a growing trend I have been noticing in new property proposals over the last 3 years or so.  This is around SEO tactics, but slighted against  our lovely GLAM institutions who I have the utmost respect for as I've worked for some over my career.

I've written a quick summary comment in one of the pending property proposals to bring some attention to my worries, but I thought it was probably important enough to copy here for a wider audience.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/documented_files#Discussion

 Comment Finally, I'm worried that I am seeing more "at" kind of properties being proposed in the last 3 years, that are basically providing little metadata to users, and instead are simply being minted as more or less "GLAM SEO tactics". We should be trying to provide deeper information for users, and not simply "more info about subject at this institution" style properties (in whatever subform they are taking). We are better than that. We can do better than that. Let's think more about what users are likely missing from finding information on a given subject, and their needs for disambiguating that information. It might mean we need less properties and instead provide richer metadata in the form of qualifiers or better qualifiers than we have now to help users. --Thadguidry (talk) 05:08, 28 December 2021 (UTC)

Replies in kind are best done in the property proposal discussion link above for the best context, if you can.

Otherwise, you can reply in this thread.