2012/4/1 Markus Krötzsch <markus.kroetzsch@cs.ox.ac.uk>
We would rather like to support linking and data integration with external data bases than suggest *every* fact of the world to be copied to Wikidata.

An interesting example is the IUCN redlist of threatened species: http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Data are modified by IUCN from time to time, so copying would be a rather temporary solution, while the redlist status is important in infoboxes of animals and plants.

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