> All right, that may not be a big problem. However, it would be a big problem > if > we have: > > Q(Coat of Arms of Novi Sad) -> Coat of Arms of Novi Sad -> Novi Sad > Q(something) -> Coat of arms of Novi Sad -> Novi Sad > Q(something) -> Coat of arms of novi sad -> Novi Sad
This is an argument against redirects that I am able to understand. I'm not sure what the best solution for this is. Perhaps we could lowercase the name of the page and compare that to other items (similar to what we currently do to ensure that no page is site-linked to more than one item). There would be exceptions, but we could warn them at least that they look like they are linking to something that may already be linked to. There are other redirects that are similar that may cause problems. Items with more than a single name that are conceptually the same thing might fall into this. I do think though that having something like what you describe happen is more of a user error though. Can you think of any possible Q(something) that would work for their of those Q(somethings). I.e. can you find a set of items where this problem might actually manifest. Coat of Arms of Novi Sad is a single concept and I can't imagine that we are likely to find too many cases where folks link it accurately to another Wikidata item. Perhaps a report could be put together regularly of possible conflicts? Thank you, Derric Atzrott _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
