User talk:CalvinBall

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-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:48, 13 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Dubbele informatie niet de bedoeling[edit]

Hi CalvinBall, Ik zie dat je meerdere keren bij het toevoegen van de bestuurlijke eenheid redunante data toevoegd: naast de gemeente voeg je onnodig de provincie en het gewest van België toe. Doordat een plaats zich in een gemeente bevindt, bevindt het zich ook automatisch in de bovenliggende bestuurlijke eenheden. Daarnaast, in België is de gemeente de laagst mogelijke bestuurlijke eenheid. Dorpen en deelgemeenten worden toegevoegd met location (P276). Door op alle items dezelfde systematiek te gebruiken is de data bruikbaar, anders niet. Groetjes - Romaine (talk) 21:59, 4 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Romaine, thanks for informing me of this! I did indeed add qualifiers for gemeente, provincie en gewest to a few places while eliminating places with instance of (P31) geographic location (Q2221906). You're right that since they are subsets of each other, they fall under those other structures, and so it is redundant information. I'll go through my contributions and revert them where necessary. To answer your second point, are you saying that the location of dorpen and deelgemeenten should be tagged with location (P276) and the item number of the gemeente they're located in, instead of using located in the administrative territorial entity (P131)? I might be misunderstanding this point, so feel free to clarify. CalvinBall (talk) 10:09, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Merging items[edit]

Hallo CalvinBall,
When you (want to) merge items, you may want to use the merge.js gadget from help page about merging. It helps with merging, gives the option to always keep the lower number (which is older, so preferable in most cases) and removes the need to file a request on Wikidata:Requests for deletions.
With regards,- cycŋ - (talk • contribs • logs) 09:21, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hiya! Thanks for the tip, I'll take a look at the gadget for sure. CalvinBall (talk) 10:21, 13 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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