Filceolaire added a comment. In https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54564#1278605, @Jane023 wrote:
> ..... My question still stands - why would you want to merge two distinct > Wikidata items to each other, if one was a person and the other is a duo? There are many reasons why wikipedia might want to include two or more different concepts in the same article. - A pair of persons who are only known as a duo and died two thousand years ago - you are not going to know more about them in future. They are only notable as a duo. - A football player who only played one professional season - better to merge him into a squad article, especially now that wikidata can have all the info needed for a stub and Reasonator can display it in a hundred languages. - a bunch of minor (non-notable) characters in a work of fiction grouped in a "list of minor characters" article - a pair of contrasting concepts that can best be understood by having one article discuss both, comparing and contrasting them. Having basic facts stored in wikidata makes it, in my opinion, more likely that wikipedia will merge concepts in this way. If the basic facts are better accessible from wikidata then wikipedia can abandon that task and concentrate on more discursive discussions of the concepts. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T54564 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Filceolaire Cc: Blahma, MGChecker, MSGJ, Izno, Nnemo, bzimport, Unknown Object (MLST), DanielFriesen, Gymel, Denny, jeblad, Abraham, Addshore, SamB, Toru10, Wikidata-bugs, JAnD, Nemo_bis, He7d3r, -jem-, ValterVB, Filceolaire, Micru, JanZerebecki, matej_suchanek, Ricordisamoa, MZMcBride, Aklapper, Tgr, kaldari, Laddo, Lydia_Pintscher, Jane023, Ltrlg, JohnLewis, Fomafix, Zellfaze, aude, Malyacko, P.Copp _______________________________________________ Wikidata-bugs mailing list Wikidata-bugs@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-bugs
