<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 11:02 PM, Christoph Hormann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:osm@imagico.de" target="_blank">osm@imagico.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Simple example: The Faroe Islands are both a country:<br>
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<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/52939" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>relation/52939</a><br>
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and an archipelago:<br>
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<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/3067431" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>relation/3067431</a><br>
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in OSM which are represented as separate features obviously. Both<br>
reference the same wikidata item [...]<br></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is most certainly a wrong modeling in Wikidata. While we can just have one well-written and comprehensive Wikipedia article about the country/archipelago, in Wikidata, one item should correspond to one concept. So there should be separate Wikidata items for the archipelago and the country. The fact that it isn't like that right now is simply because Wikidata is an ongoing project, just like OSM.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">As an example, we have the island of Bali (<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4648">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4648</a>) versus the province of Bali (<a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3125978">https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3125978</a>), though there is only just one English Wikipedia article covering both concepts: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bali</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></div>