[Tagging] RFC: remove alphanumeric code visible in infoboxes at OSM Wiki linking to Wikidata

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

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> On 2 Apr 2022, at 09:33, Jez Nicholson <jez.nicholson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> c) an entity page should frequently match to a known entity in Wikidata. When it doesn't then it may be a sign to think again, or Wikidata is wrong/missing something and we could improve it.


lets have a look at an example, place=city in OpenStreetMap is linked to https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q515

the French definition says it should have at least a population of dozens of thousands.

There is also this statement:
has quality
statements of instances in qualifiers
population 10,000,000±9,900,000


and it says the Vatican City is a model item for a city: https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237

(it has not even 1000 inhabitants and is not a settlement on its own but a part of Rome)

Even the most essential items are full of contradictions and we haven’t even looked at the content of the wikipedia articles in all the languages.

Yes, these concepts are related, but IMHO you can hardly benefit from the relation because of the details and different definitions (even in the one-sentence title within WD if you compare languages), and more when comparing to OpenStreetMap. The relation is just too loose
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:place%3Dcity

Cheers Martin 
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