Advice on the general case: a lot of country of citizenship properties, especially ones created early, were a bit slapdash and there's a lot of edge cases which get smoothed over. So don't assume they're gospel truth (or necessarily worth "disputing" rather than correcing) to begin with just because they've been there a while :-)
In this case, it looks like it was imported by inference from a Wikipedia category which implied nationality (eg "English writers") but may have been populated on the basis of residency or activity rather than official nationality; a lot of others got inferred from birth place, "born in London so British". Both of these are reasonable assumptions in about 99% of cases, but the 1% is a problem...
Andrew.
On 5 November 2017 at 10:40, Marco Neumann marco.neumann@gmail.com wrote:
What's the current procedure for disputing a non trivial claim on a wikidata item?
I know I can just go ahead and change a claim (statement and/or its value) but the dispute itself would only be captured in the change-log of the respective wikidata instance.
Would one create a discussion entry on the item page first to motivate a change on an item that's not straight forward?
so for example on the item
Paul Staines https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16191299
it states that person has
:country of citizenship :United Kingdom (a claim created by Rpfb119 on 1 April 2015 )
but on wikipedia-en it says nationality Irish without a reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Staines
is there or should there be a qualifier/reference to flag a statement to be in dispute?
Also is this mailing-list the best place to discuss such (item specific) matters? Or is the Wikidata community portal with the Requests for comment service a better place?
thx Marco
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