Hoi,

<grin> it is complicated </grin. First of all the majority of name changes of ARTICLES are to effect disambiguation.. You get things like "Tom Mix (cowboy)" the label in Wikidata needs to remain "Tom Mix".

When you consider Mr/Mrs Manning, both labels are relevant.. The best way of dealing with it is probably making "Chelsea Manning" the main label with "Bradley Manning" an alias.

It is worth repeating... Wikidata is NOT Wikipedia.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 15 August 2014 00:32, Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:

Hi,

I just changed the Russian label of the Chelsea Manning item from Bradley to Chelsea. The Russian Wikipedia article was already moved to Chelsea, but nobody noticed that the label probably needs a change, too.

How can such things be handled better?

One thing I can think of is that after the Wikipedia article in language X is moved, the label in language X is shown as "possibly needs update" - similarly to FUZZY in the Translate extension. There can also be a button that says "confirm current label", for when there is no reason to change it. Finally, there could also be a page that lists such possibly labels.

Of course, there may be better ideas, and maybe some of them are already implemented and I just didn't notice it.

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