Wikidata:Properties for deletion/P2650
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This is a follow-up of Wikidata:Project chat#Interested in vs. Field of work (opened by @Daask: on 18 October): as argumented by many users there, the difference between interested in (P2650) (with 17k uses in main statements) and the older field of work (P101) (with 938k uses in main statements) is not clear enough; whilst it has been said that P101 is for professional areas and P2650 for non-professional areas, it seems that presently both properties have been used for both fields, and there is a high probability that this confusion will worsen in the future; thus, following the proposal of @Vojtěch Dostál:, I agree that we can "merge the duplicates and start a new proposal if required for some other (or perhaps the originally intended) use case". So I'm proposing to delete P2650, bot-transferring all its values to P101; I'm not fully convinced that we need another property besides P101, but if someone wants to propose it in the future, this deletion wouldn't hinder them from doing it. Otherwise, if we choose not to delete P2650, I think we need to 1) state much more clearly how it differs from P101 and 2) find effective methods to move wrong uses of P2650 to P101 and viceversa (note: wrong according to the clearer definition of P2650 foreshadowed at point 1). —Epìdosis 19:20, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
- There is possible merit in it for people's hobbies (as was argued for fictional characters where field of work (P101) read oddly), but I can see no merit for organisations, all uses there should be transferred. Vicarage (talk) 21:23, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
Weak support P2650 is hardly used at all in the arts domain (artists with P2650). P2650 does not meet any need in this domain that P101 or inspired by (P941) cannot meet. But I cannot speak for other domains... Fjjulien (talk) 19:57, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
Before deletion we need an analysis of the current uses so we can inform people. Since it was originally proposed for WikiProjects I assume it was in use for a few, but could never have been many, because I would have seen it pop up in the proposal discussions for on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008). Jane023 (talk) 08:36, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
- @Jane023: A quick SPARQL query indicates that it is currently in use on 18 WikiProject items. Daask (talk) 13:43, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks! It's interesting to see the minimal information for such projects on Wikidata - the first page I looked at, Wikidata:WikiProject Moravian Knowledge Network Research, doesn't even point to any external site in the wikiverrse or otherwise. It's probably a good idea to start a larger campaign to clean this up. Jane023 (talk) 14:11, 27 October 2023 (UTC)