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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