Hoi,

Many of such baggage is legacy of Wikipedia. There is no point in storing that a city is in any specific place or of a specific size by making it what it is. It is all implied. The category:Scottish city can be implied from what administrative entity it is part of and from defining a city in whatever way. For instance Zwaag has "city rights" and nowadays it is not even a municipality. It however may be known as a "city" by having appropriate properties.

We should cut down on baggage if only to improve our "quality".

Thanks,

GerardM

On 29 November 2015 at 18:56, Joe Filceolaire <filceolaire@gmail.com> wrote:

Why have instance of item and instance of superclass of that item?
If Glasgow is instance of : city of Scotland and
City of Scotland is subclass of : city
Then we should not have Glasgow instance of : city

This principle should cut down a lot of these extra 'instances '

Joe

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:51 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
Gerard Meijssen, 28/11/2015 07:05:
> A big city is what? A city with more than a given number of inhabitants?
> If so it is redundant because it can be inferred.

Criteria might be defined by local law and/or require some
administrative act. That's how it works in Italy, for instance.

Nemo

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