[Tagging] Subsequent wikipedia links

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 2:48 AM, yvecai <yvecai at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would find more logical to make links between databases with queries
> rather by adding external references in one or the other. The later looks
> like the poor man job (oversimplifying, I don't want to put down the great
> job done at Wikidata).
>

I disagree. If the goal is to make separate databases function as one big
normalized database[1] such that there is no overlap in data, then these
inter-database references are, in fact, necessary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization
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