Use 'Birth name (P513)' (string datatype) for Cassius Clay or 'Official name' (Proposed property with monolingual text datatype) for Batavia - with date qualifiers.

Joe

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hoi,

So how do I indicate that up to a particular date Jakarta was called Batavia ? Muhammed Ali was called Cassius Clay ? There is no discussion about it. All there is an (potentially perceived) inability to use appropriate labels at will.

Labels are not simple.

Thanks,

    Gerard

On 6 March 2014 17:07, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de> wrote:

Am 06.03.2014 16:27, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:

> Hoi,
> I hope this will be revisited. Many items change there name and dependent on a
> date they or it are called differently.

If the name is something that is changed, debated, or otherwise a subject of
discussion, create a statement using an appropriate property. The point of
having labels is precisely that they are simple.

-- daniel

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Daniel Kinzler
Senior Software Developer

Wikimedia Deutschland
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