[OSM-talk] (licence of wikidata) was: Can wikidata links help fight name inflation?

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 8 10:34:04 UTC 2015


Actually, Wikidata aims to avoid such judgment calls. As much as
possible, all facts (aka "statements" in Wikidata parlance) should
have citations to reliable sources. Please see the following page for
the relevant discussion: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Sources

So in your example, a city can be tagged as being a metropolis if a
reliable source states so, such as a government economic planning
office.

On 6/8/15, Martin Koppenhoefer <dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Am 07.06.2015 um 21:37 schrieb Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com>:
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>> Because in US copyright law, facts are not copyrightable. You can source
>> the fact that "Washington, D.C." is the "capital of the United States of
>> America" from a copyrighted book without that fact inheriting the
>> copyright license of the book.
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> on the other hand, even if the idea behind it was different, not all data in
> wikidata are hard facts like the capital example. For example whether a city
> can be considered "metropolis" or "financial centre" is based on judgement
> and is not something that always gets decided the same way regardless of who
> makes the decision.
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> cheers
> Martin



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