Talk:Q131681

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Autodescription — reservoir (Q131681)

description: artificial lake impounded using a dam or lock to store water
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Meno25, it doesn't seem good idea to change English label like this (Special:Diff/1329848726). Word "reservoir" appears to be used in strict sense (impounded lake) and in broad sense (including other types of reservoirs, i.e. Q2551525), and "reservoir" for the first seems much more common than synonyms like "dam lake". That's what's also used for Property:P4661 (reservoir created). English-language article en:Reservoir that among other types of reservoirs discusses impounded lakes primarly uses word "reservoir" for the latter. Note that labels don't have to be disambiguated, and multiple items having the same label isn't a problem (see Help:Label).

I also don't quite get the point of sitelink en:dam lake. On other language Wikipedias it misleadingly suggests that English-language Wikipedia has separate article for this type of reservoir, while it actually doesn't. Moreover it's redirected to an article that doesn't even mention "dam lake". 2001:7D0:88F1:6B80:CD22:EB89:D097:4E1A 11:04, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Fine by me. You can make the changes that you see necessary on the item. Just a quick note that linking to redirects is not forbidden on Wikidata. See WD:N and Wikidata:Requests for comment/Allow the creation of links to redirects in Wikidata. --Meno25 (talk) 18:12, 1 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Merger[edit]

Q3215290 seems a duplicate. Fgnievinski (talk) 18:49, 30 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Not quite. It's a more broad concept (parent class). Not all artificial lakes are impounded lakes (reservoirs). 2001:7D0:81DA:F780:F1B4:141A:7204:EB57 11:06, 22 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]