(in this case, it appears to be the "castle of Żagań", once located in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BBaga%C5%84 )
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 12:24 PM Markus Krötzsch < mar...@semantic-mediawiki.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just noticed that we have a number of "orphaned items" which were > created and imported from some Wikipedia article that then got deleted. > The result is an item with almost no data, no sitelinks, and all > references claiming "imported from X Wikipedia". > > Example: > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9386774 > > Here is what happened: > https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q9386774&action=history > > It would be good to have a process for dealing with such cases. I am not > saying that we must delete such items immediately, but it seems obvious > that they need some special attention to become self-sustaining even > without Wikipedia articles associated. > > Things that would be important to keep such items: > * Links to other external datasets that confirm the existence of the thing. > * Links to authoritative web sites that confirm the existence of the thing. > * Proper references for all data (we always want that, but here it's > even more critical: "imported from Wikipedia" is never great, but at > least it leaves some hope of finding proper references if the Wikipedia > page still exists). > > In cases like the above, deletion seems to be the most reasonable > solution (the little data that is there can easily be added again if > needed in the future). It seems that one could automatically collect > such candidates for deletion (pages that are not used as property > values, have no site links, have no identifier properties, were not > edited since more than a month, an have less than, say, ten > properties+labels+descriptions). > > Regards, > > Markus > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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