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I am quite strongly against splitting the label and description by the aliases. 
The label and description together establish the identity of the item, whereas 
the aliases (which is indeed a bad term) are used to facilitate finding the 
item. No further meaning should be associated with these things.

The label and description are a semantic unit, whereas the aliases are outside 
of those. Aliases are not just more labels for the entity, or alternative 
labels. Instead, aliases are meant to help with the search, but not for 
establishing identity. E.g. 'George Bush' might be a decent alias for Q207, and 
the description could be 'US president', but it would not be a good label 
because label+description do not establish identity in that case. The alias is 
only there because we assume that users might search for 'George Bush', and 
then can select between the relevant items based on their actual 
label+description.

So, please put the label and description together again. This is also how it 
works in the entity selector (for good reasons), and this visual unity also 
sells the concept of the label and description being the identity providers for 
items.


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