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Autodescription — paleontology (Q7205)
description: scientific study of the past of life on Earth through fossils
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DOAJ[edit]
I don't understand what harm it does to "state the obvious". Nemo 12:46, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
- @Nemo_bis: It doesn’t make harm. But it doesn’t make anything worth having, either; and it’s easier to revert in whole (especially as the Wikibase web UI doesn’t let me make arbitrary changes while reverting). By the way, I found no mention of academic disciplines or P31 statements on the page linked from the edit summary, so I have no idea why you made the edit or where is the data from. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 19:56, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
- The data is from DOAJ the database, not DOAJ the item. See [1] for a list.
- The edit provides two things worth having: 1) a reference for an existing statement that is currently unsourced; 2) an alias that makes it easier to match this entity with DOAJ and similar databases even if in the future the main label happened to change. Nemo 20:11, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
- 1) Use the common sense. Would you put “citation needed” tag to statements such as “the sky is blue”? It’s just as obvious. (To be clear, I’m not specifically against it, just see no value in adding it.) 2) An alias that is equivalent to the existing label except that it’s erroneously capitalized. If the main label happens to change, the previous label should be added as an alias to allow humans to still find the item, but database connections should not use the label like a foreign key, as no foreign key constraint-like check can be applied to them; the alias can (but should not backward-incompatibly) be changed, just like label. —Tacsipacsi (talk) 21:15, 11 November 2019 (UTC)