Talk:Q1183
Autodescription — Puerto Rico (Q1183)
- Useful links:
- View it! – Images depicting the item on Commons
- Report on constraint conformation of “Puerto Rico” claims and statements. Constraints report for items data
- Generic queries for administrative territorial entities
This list of queries is designed for all instances of administrative territorial entity (Q56061). It is generated using {{TP administrative area}}.
Geography
- Places in Puerto Rico (query)
- Map of places in Puerto Rico (query)
- List of monuments (Monumental (Q29167605))
- List of places ordered by altitude (query) (Based on elevation above sea level (P2044).)
- Count of buildings by architectural style (query)
- List of highest buildings (query) (Based on height (P2048).)
- Organizations with headquarters in Puerto Rico (query)
- List of items which have power over or which apply to Puerto Rico (query) (applies to jurisdiction (P1001))
People
- People born in Puerto Rico, sorted by number of sitelinks (query)
- Main occupation of people born in Puerto Rico (query)
- People dead in Puerto Rico, sorted by number of sitelinks (query) (place of death (P20))
- People buried in Puerto Rico, sorted by number of sitelinks (query) (place of burial (P119))
- People living in Puerto Rico, sorted by number of sitelinks (query) (residence (P551))
Arts and fictions
- List of items with narrative location in Puerto Rico (query) (narrative location (P840))
- List of movies with filming location in Puerto Rico (query) (filming location (P915))
- See also: Wikidata:WikiProject Country subdivision
- See also
- This documentation is generated using
{{Item documentation}}.
Discovery[edit]
I think I figured out what happened. On Wikidata: From June 12, 2013 here To June 23, 2013 here An unregistered user went through thousands of wikidata items of locations and added Created claim: located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) and filled it in with a country: The editor received some comments on his talk page here re: incorrect addition on some wikidata items, which other editors had to tediously remove.
And On June 13, added the same claim to Puerto Rico here and to the other US territories here Right after the 50 states of the US were updated, so were the territories, and this should not have been done. While these are U.S. territories they are not "located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) of the United States". Look at any US map to know what I mean. There are 50 states in the US, not 50 states and a bunch of territories.
While some of this unregistered editors additions / errors were questioned and corrected by some editors, Puerto Rico and other US territories and maybe others' wikidata items slipped through the cracks. No one noticed or questioned the edits.
The unregistered user responded on his talk page with how he made these edits and I quote him "I created a bot that traverse the entity recursively via the contains administrative territorial entity (P150) property. The assumption is if A subdivides to any entity B or C, then B is in administrative unit located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) of A, and C is in administrative unit located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) of A. This will ensure reciprocity but it seems to be not true all the time, the contains administrative territorial entity (P150) means both subdivides into administrative division and subdivides into other things. I am using this tool to make sure all subdivisions have other property like country (P17) is set to the same country as the root node. And also to be able to view the hierarchy of subdivision for a country. --112.203.160.147 16:24, 20 June 2013 (UTC)"
So that is why since mid-2013, it came to be that on English Wikipedia and other Wikipedias, based on this incorrect addition to the Wikidata item, Puerto Rico was incorrectly made to be located "in" the administrative territorial entity (131) of the United States.
This is incorrect as the only territories in the United States are the 50 states. You can note that the unregistered user, using a script to indiscrimately add this claim, went through the US 50 states correctly, then also included the claim on the US terrorities, which again ARE NOT IN the United States. Look at any map of the US to know what is in the U.S. Other parameters on this wikidata item cover the political status of the territories in relation to the United States. This location claim is incorrect.--The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 20:21, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
CIA World Factbook[edit]
The CIA World Factbook states, under the Geography section for the United States, that the area of the United States is
Area
"total: 9,833,517 sq km
land: 9,147,593 sq km
water: 685,924 sq km
note: includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia, no overseas territories" (emphasis is mine)
[1] --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 13:12, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
Another definition for what constitutes the United States is on the USGS site[edit]
On the USGS page: --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 04:29, 7 October 2020 (UTC)