Thanks Stas & Thomas. That's unambiguous. :-) (And thanks to Jdforrester who went through and fixed all my examples)

The help page actually has the critical bits of information in the summary box which appears to be intended to be at the top of the page, but it's beneath a large bright red block of language names and another box saying that the page is only a proposal. This obscures the information which is intended to be highlighted.

I think these three bullets (from the "This page in a nutshell" box) are brief enough that they could go in a hover (perhaps with an affordance like ⓘ or ? ) on the Wikidata editing page:

A label is like a page title, but is the smallest unit of information that names an item (e.g. "Paris", not "Paris, France")
Labels are allowed to be ambiguous – they are disambiguated using descriptions
Use the item's most common name, and only capitalize proper nouns

then the information would be right where people need it.

Tom

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:39 AM, Thomas Tanon <thomaspt@hotmail.fr> wrote:

Hello Tom,
You should have a look at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Label
The current policy is to use the description of items to do disambiguation and use as label the "natural" name. For example, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7020301 should have as label "Newton Lower Falls" and as description something like "village in Massachusetts".
Cheers,
Thomas

Le mar. 29 déc. 2015 à 08:56, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> a écrit :
I'm pretty sure ambiguation is not a word, but what are the guidelines on removing disambiguation information from names/labels of items. Usually this disambiguation information was added to a Wikipedia article name to enforce their uniqueness requirements, but Wikidata has no such need and the presence of the information makes it very difficult to construct things like placename hierarchies which don't look clumsy/weird.

It appears that, in general, disambiguation text has been removed from names, but this isn't always the case. Is it safe/recommended to clean up those that have been missed?

Here are some examples that I've collected:

Linden Park, Massachusetts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6552338
boulevard carnot cannes https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2921787
Newton Lower Falls, Massachusetts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7020301
Harrington House (Weston, Massachusetts) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715508
Thomas Fleming House (Sherborn, Massachusetts) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14715881
Peabody, Cambridge, Massachusetts https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7157211

Is the standard the "natural" name or the invented name that Wikpedians came up with?

Tom
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