<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-01 13:50 GMT+02:00 Pieren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pieren3@gmail.com" target="_blank">pieren3@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":2l5" class="" style="overflow:hidden">The question<br>
now is if your wikidata entry is about the settlement or its<br>
administrative boundary or both...</div></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>The wikidata entry states it is the former (instance of <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972">http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972</a> aka human settlement) but somehow there is also an administrative reference in the description ("<span class=""><span class="" dir="auto">a village and a former municipality").<br>
<br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><span class="" dir="auto">For the containing "Arendsee" it is clear, the wikidata object refers to the "Gemeinde" (administrative entity, municipality) and there seems to be no wikidata entity for the homonymous settlement: <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q490960">http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q490960</a><br>
</span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><span class="" dir="auto">Interestingly in this particular article, the German Wikipedia mentions 2 other Arendsees: Ortschaft and Ortsteil Arendsee.<br></span></span><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arendsee_%28Altmark%29#Gemeindegliederung">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arendsee_%28Altmark%29#Gemeindegliederung</a><br>
"Arendsee mit den OT Arendsee, Genzien und Gestien"<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If the name had been different from the municipality (like "Binde" in the same municipality), these administrative entities would probably have gotten their own wikipedia page (and wikidata object): <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binde_%28Altmark%29">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binde_%28Altmark%29</a> (again dealing with both, administrative and geographic entities)<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra">In this case, the wikidata object describes a "geographical object" (likely a placeholder classfication): <a href="http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q586157">http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q586157</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><span class="" dir="auto"><br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><span class="" dir="auto">My guess is that in the case of settlements we will mostly have missing wikidata entities for either the settlement or the administrative entities, because the wikidata objects have been created from wikipedia articles which typically don't distinguish between the settlement and the administrative entity but rather do cover both. It is also likely that the focus of wikipedia articles is on administrative entities, because of the requirement to "prove" with citations (ideally formal legislational acts) what you enter.<br>
<br></span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra">Cheers,<br>Martin<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>___<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Btw., there is a small typo in your mail, the Name is "Kleinau" (~small floodplain) which is a more probable name than "Keinau" (~not a floodplain) ;-)<br>
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