[Tagging] patron saints

[Andy Mabbett]

On 25 January 2015 at 16:29, Friedrich Volkmann <bsd at volki.at> wrote:

> patron saints.
> E.g. the Basilica Sancti Petri (Saint Peter's Basilica) in Vatican City is
> obviously dedicated to Sanctus Petrus (Saint Peter).

There are sometimes more than one saint with the same name, This is
where Wikidata tags provide useful disambiguation.

You can either tag with:

   wikidata = Q12512 (resolves to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12512
; the item for Saint Peter's Basilica)

from which you can determine that the patron saint (P417) is Q33923 (
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33923 ; equivalent the articles on St
Peter in various languages, such as,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter )

Or you could tag more explicitly, with

   patron-saint:wikidata = Q33923

You can find the Wikidata ID from a Wikipedia article, in any
language, in its left-hand column, as a link labelled "Wikidata item".

-- 
Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk