Hoi,
In the Netherlands it used to be that people were baptised as soon as
possible after birth. The notion that "he must have been born a few days
earlier" is not necessarily correct.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 6 May 2014 17:18, Joe Filceolaire <filceola...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having a property with multiple values can mean a number of things:
> * All the values are equally valid e.g. because a work has multiple authors
> * All values are valid but one is preferred - usually the current value
> e.g. when we have population figures back over time or all the kings of
> Denmark.
> * One of the values is shown because it is widely used but is deprecated
> because it is wrong e.g. Beethoven born on 17 December 1770 (that his date
> of baptism so he must have been born a few days earlier).
>
> The case described by Freidrich where we have two (or more values) which
> are both disputed (because they can't both be right) although one value is
> more widely supported then this is harder to represent semantically. I
> would go with adding a 'disputed by' qualifier to BOTH claims and marking
> the more widely accepted value as 'rank:preferred'
>
> But that is just me
>
> Joe
>
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