User talk:Rachel Helps (BYU)

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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:54, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Official website

You are adding an "official website" link for multiple people, where the address for each "official" website is at archive.org. Is this a mistake? --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:32, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

When I looked at the first 100 or so entries on adding the "official website" entries, they appeared to be the right data. But for about 74 of them, they have random links to the Relief Society magazine on archive.org. These links are on our MLCAD database, so I will be talking to people on our side about cleaning up the data in our own database. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 21:49, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Your additions

You are sending us to a malware/spam website for some of the entries. RAN (talk) 03:37, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Also from my side, it looks like more than 50% of the latest additions are totally wrong. --Florentyna (talk) 06:15, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

Sorry about that, I thought that the data I had (hyperlinks to subjects' official websites from the Mormon Literature and Creative Arts Database) was more reliable than it was! I don't work today, but I will see what I can do tomorrow about cleaning that data and possibly removing all the sitelinks I tried to add. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 15:30, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

I believe that I removed all of the sitelinks that I added on March 1st. Thank you for being patient with me as I figure this out. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:46, 3 March 2023 (UTC)

Suggestions on item updates

Hi @Rachel Helps (BYU), following your question in the OpenRefine Telegram channel, I have taken a look at your edits. I agree with the above comments - please check your 'official website' statements, these seem out of place here (that property is only to be used for these people's own official websites, if they would have any). You could potentially replace some of these with 'described at URL' (but only if truly relevant/unique content about the person can be found there). You can use OpenRefine to remove specific statements and create new ones; check the 'Editing mode' section in OpenRefine's documentation on how to do this.

I have checked one item you have recently edited and have done some suggested edits to it. I suggest to update next data imports, taking inspiration from here:

• Please include a 'retrieved' date in your references. Source websites can change, and in this way Wikidata re-users know when a certain data import was done and when certain statements were retrieved from a specific source. You can also add a 'stated in' statement in your references; not mandatory but it is a good addition.
• You can also simply add references to already existing Wikidata statements; that is a very valuable thing to do (as a lot of data in Wikidata only has a reference to a Wikipedia, and you are adding an additional reference to a reliable external source). This is possible with OpenRefine as well.
• For this specific item, I am indeed puzzled by the archive.org link - it seems to have no relationship at all to this person?
• There are apparently two Wikidata identifier for the Mormon Literature Creative Arts Database: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5469 / https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5495 - you could totally fill these.

Please don't be discouraged; these are beginners' mistakes but you have valuable data to contribute and the Wikidata community will be happy to help you. Spinster 💬 16:36, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

No, this is never a beginner's mistake when adding thousands of wrong data by a script (for instance a recently born badminton player has a homepage with content from 1936). Please revert all last additions and start a new try. Such things can happen, but must be eliminated in a reference database like Wikidata a.s.a.p. Florentyna (talk) 18:59, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

For the 1765 items that OpenRefine reconciled automatically, I will be manually checking the matches. It may take some time. Many of the matches did not result in a Wikidata edit because the items did not have the data I was adding. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 17:06, 27 March 2023 (UTC)

Well, I think I finally checked all the matches. Rachel Helps (BYU) (talk) 20:07, 21 August 2023 (UTC)