[OSM-talk] Adding wikidata tags to the remaining objects with only wikipedia tag

Andy Townsend ajt1047 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 1 13:03:00 UTC 2017


On 01/10/2017 13:05, Andy Mabbett wrote:
>
> And now you're making things up.
>
just two posts earlier in this thread you said

 > I don't think this kind of sarcastic hyperbole helps to move things
 > forward, nor to engender an atmosphere of collegial collaboration.
 > Please resist the temptation to use it.

I would respectfully suggest that you follow your own advice.

There's a valid discussion to be had about "how OSM does things vs how 
wikipedia/wikidata does things".  Back in 2016 in another context I 
mentioned "Common End" in Derbyshire on this list 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2016-November/077139.html 
.  It's in wikipedia as "a place noted on a map" (which is correct - OS 
maps include it).  It doesn't in any verifiable sense "exist" though.  
Wikidata has it https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5153341 as both a 
"hamlet" and a "fictional location".  Whether that's "correct" or not is 
a decision for wikidata - I've no idea what their definition of "hamlet" 
is and whether it includes a locality that probably used to exist in 
some sense but all on-the-ground trace of the name has disappeared, but 
it's entirely reasonable to discuss the areas in which different 
contribution customs will result in different data, and how we handle 
links in those cases.

Best Regards,

Andy






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