2014-09-01 13:50 GMT+02:00 Pieren <pier...@gmail.com>: > The question > now is if your wikidata entry is about the settlement or its > administrative boundary or both... >
The wikidata entry states it is the former (instance of http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q486972 aka human settlement) but somehow there is also an administrative reference in the description ("a village and a former municipality"). For the containing "Arendsee" it is clear, the wikidata object refers to the "Gemeinde" (administrative entity, municipality) and there seems to be no wikidata entity for the homonymous settlement: http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q490960 Interestingly in this particular article, the German Wikipedia mentions 2 other Arendsees: Ortschaft and Ortsteil Arendsee. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arendsee_%28Altmark%29#Gemeindegliederung "Arendsee mit den OT Arendsee, Genzien und Gestien" If the name had been different from the municipality (like "Binde" in the same municipality), these administrative entities would probably have gotten their own wikipedia page (and wikidata object): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binde_%28Altmark%29 (again dealing with both, administrative and geographic entities) In this case, the wikidata object describes a "geographical object" (likely a placeholder classfication): http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q586157 My guess is that in the case of settlements we will mostly have missing wikidata entities for either the settlement or the administrative entities, because the wikidata objects have been created from wikipedia articles which typically don't distinguish between the settlement and the administrative entity but rather do cover both. It is also likely that the focus of wikipedia articles is on administrative entities, because of the requirement to "prove" with citations (ideally formal legislational acts) what you enter. Cheers, Martin ___ Btw., there is a small typo in your mail, the Name is "Kleinau" (~small floodplain) which is a more probable name than "Keinau" (~not a floodplain) ;-)
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