Hoi, <grin> the English word sibling is good enough.. </grin> because of the gender of a person we would know if it is a brother or a sister... When we know a parent, we implicitly know this already through child.. Consequently in many occassions we do not need to register brother or sister at all. Thanks, GerardM
On 20 August 2015 at 15:15, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Andrew Gray, 17/08/2015 13:29:
In some ways, merging seems more elegant. We do have fairly good gender metadata (and getting better all the time!), so we can still do gender-specific relationship searches where needed. It also avoids having to force a binary gender approach - we are in the odd position of being able to give a nuanced entry in P21 but can only say if someone is a "sister" or "brother".
I think this is quite important. I think properties should focus on one thing at a time and there is no need to state both gender and family relationship in the same statement.
Also, are we really sure we don't currently have linguistic issues? I bet there is at least one language in the world where "sister" and "brother" are not two distinct words.
Nemo
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