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 <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Description> - 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 &lt;thomaspt(a)hotmail.fr&gt; wrote:

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Maarten Dammers &lt;maarten(a)mdammers.nl&gt; wrote: The guidelines say to move the disambiguation information to the description (which makes sense since that's the only information the autocomplete widget shows). Speaking of aliases, I got a chuckle out of the species alias discussion - "The label of Helianthus annuus (Q171497) <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171497> is the common name, while the scientific name (*Helianthus annuus*) is featured as an alias" parenthetical disambiguation information was removed on import from wikipedia, but little or no comma separated disambiguation was removed. If P131 "located in the administrative territorial entity" was set correctly, it would be relatively straightforward for a bot to identify information to be removed, but, unfortunately, the bot that set all these, at least locally, (AudeBot) used an administrative entity two levels higher than it should have, making the property value useless. Fixing P131 first would make it easier to identify disambiguation information to be removed from labels. Tom