Topic on User talk:Gamaliel

Hi Gamaliel,

how shall a Wiki editor distinguish two scientists with the same name when both are described as chercheur / Forscher / investigador? Only in the English language you have resorted to a more complete form with the ORCID, e.g. researcher ORCID 0000-0003-0703-9787.

Why have you privileged the English language in your mass edits?

You are right, it does not help distinguish between the two scientists, but a blank description has the same problem and is even less useful. These are only intended to be placeholders until someone adds a better description, but they are far more useful than no information at all.

I started with English only and in later batches I added other languages. When or if I do more batches I will add the orcid for all languages.

I've removed all the German descriptions of "Forscher" from Wikidata items. There should be no more need for you to remove English language descriptions.

Thank you very much. Now there is a lesser risk of descriptions containing generisches Maskulinum (Q29864688).

I assume that your job is still running?

If my job missed some, I will do another query to try to find them.

Hi Gamaliel,

please don't add only the ORCID, this is not a good description.

Dear Gamaliel,

please stop immediately. Since my last plea you've continued to add ORCID 0000-000X-XXXX-XXXX as German description for more than 10 hours, which is not a good description. I sincerely ask you to come up with a better heuristics or at least remove all ORCID 0000-000X-XXXX-XXXX descriptions.

Thank you in advance

I have just been trying to respond helpfully to your complaints but at this point I no longer want to be involved in German language descriptions. I will no longer edit them if you stop removing English language descriptions.

I acknowledge that, but would you accept having an increasing number as Help:Description for your language?

I’m sorry, I don’t understand.

If I'd did that (in your mother tongue) – would you appreciate it?

I personally find those descriptions helpful and I have added them in English myself in the past. I understand that other people have different opinions about that and I respect that.

May you please remove the ORCID 0000-000X-XXXX-XXXX-style descriptions for German? They are not usual practice.

I will be glad to do that if you would please finally stop blanking English descriptions. What would you prefer the German descriptions to be?

Before more researchers are classified into more exact professions I would prefer an empty description.