User talk:Robertsilen

Welcome to Wikidata, Robertsilen!

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— Masum Ibn Musa  ^Conversation 13:28, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

New family names and given names

Hi Robertsilen!

It's nice of you to create new names. Please be so kind and fill in at least these three properties, it will save the other Wikidata contributors a lot of work:

• For names in Latin script:

1. instance of (P31) (use "family name (Q101352)", "male given name (Q12308941)" or "female given name (Q11879590)")
2. writing system (P282) (use "Latin script (Q8229)")
3. native label (P1705) (use allways "mul" for the language specification; specific language specifications require a reference)

Tip: The easiest way would be to use the script from User:Bargioni, see: User:Bargioni/QuickNames

Note: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian names, etc. must be created in their original script. User:Bargioni's tool is not suitable for this.

• For persons of Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian origin etc., and other countries with Cyrillic writing system, create the name in Cyrillic script:

1. instance of (P31) (use "family name (Q101352)", "male given name (Q12308941)" or "female given name (Q11879590)")
2. writing system (P282) (use "Cyrillic script (Q8209)")
3. native label (P1705) (use allways "mul" for the language specification; specific language specifications require a reference)

Note: The transliteration from e.g. Russian (Q7737)/Ukrainian (Q8798)/Serbian (Q9299) etc. to English (Q1860), French (Q150), German (Q188) and various other languages is different.

For more information please see this page: Wikidata:WikiProject Names/Properties.

I wish you continued happy work on Wikidata. Best regards, HarryNº2 (talk) 06:09, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

@HarryNº2: thank you, and sorry for the inconvenience. I have now corrected the Wikidata objects in question. Robertsilen (talk) 06:50, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

No problem, I'm glad if my tip is helpful. --HarryNº2 (talk) 06:57, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

language of work or name (P407)

Hi :) We don't use language of work or name (P407) as a qualifier for IPA transcription (P898) on forms. Lexemes are already language-specific, so adding it again as a qualifier is redundant. - Nikki (talk) 09:17, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Thanks @Nikki: I was prompted for language of work or name (P407) earlier - which seems to have changed now. I'll leave it out in the future, and clean up earlier ones when I get round to it. Robert (talk) 12:19, 2 December 2023 (UTC)