There is a "official name" property for this purpose in Wikidata. Date
qualifiers gives the information on when the name was the official one.
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From: Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com>
Date: 2014-03-06 17:12 GMT+01:00
Subject: Re: [Wikidata-l] rank related changes
To: "Discussion list for the Wikidata project." <
wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org>
Hoi,
So how do I indicate that up to a particular date Jakarta was called
Batavia ? Muhammed Ali was called Cassius Clay ? There is no discussion
about it. All there is an (potentially perceived) inability to use
appropriate labels at will.
Labels are not simple.
Thanks,
Gerard
On 6 March 2014 17:07, Daniel Kinzler <daniel.kinz...@wikimedia.de> wrote:
> Am 06.03.2014 16:27, schrieb Gerard Meijssen:
> > Hoi,
> > I hope this will be revisited. Many items change there name and
> dependent on a
> > date they or it are called differently.
>
> If the name is something that is changed, debated, or otherwise a subject
> of
> discussion, create a statement using an appropriate property. The point of
> having labels is precisely that they are simple.
>
> -- daniel
>
> --
> Daniel Kinzler
> Senior Software Developer
>
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