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 <thomaspt(a)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(a)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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