mrephabricator added a comment.
It's entirely possible that duplicate labels are not a real problem - there has been heated debate about this same thing on OpenStreetMap for years at this point, but the consensus has always been to keep the "duplicates" as they really contain information that data consumers can't do with out. Many of the detractors allege that Wikidata would be able to store this information should it be removed, but if that becomes no longer true, it seems like that could damage Wikidata's credibility as a useful tool for interlingual labels, as so far it has been discussed as a way to store more of that kind of information rather than less of it. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306918 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: mrephabricator Cc: mrephabricator, Lucas_Werkmeister_WMDE, Lydia_Pintscher, Nikki, Mahir256, Manuel, Aklapper, Astuthiodit_1, karapayneWMDE, Invadibot, maantietaja, ItamarWMDE, Akuckartz, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, _jensen, rosalieper, Scott_WUaS, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331
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