Hoi,

It is a matter of perspective. From my perspective a value exists or not. Depending on that I may want to process. When you state novalue there is a value of novalue and that is not the same as there not being a value in the first place.

Thanks,

GerardM

On 26 April 2015 at 22:25, Markus Krötzsch <markus@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote:

On 26.04.2015 22:16, Gerard Meijssen wrote:

Hoi,
I regularly query for for instance claim[31] ie any instance of
whatever... I would also query for the existence of a date of death in a
similar way. for me a claim with a "whatever it is that says that there
is no value" would be a positive result and I would not consider it for
any processing.

Not sure what you are trying to say here. Do you think there is a problem in how Wikidata Query is treating novalue? I am sure this can be fixed if it is the case. But I am not the right person to answer this.

Markus

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