I would like to add old URLs that seems to be a source but does not reference anything in the claim. For example in an item about a person, the name or the birth date of the person does not appear on the page still the page is used as a source for the persons birth date.
On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Stas Malyshev <smalys...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hi! > > > I see that 19.6k statements have been approved through the tool, and > > 5.1k statements have been rejected - which means that about 1 in 5 > > statements is deemed unsuitable by the users of primary sources. > > From my (limited) experience with Primary Sources, there are several > kinds of things there that I had rejected: > > - Unsourced statements that contradict what is written in Wikidata > - Duplicate claims already existing in Wikidata > - Duplicate claims with worse data (i.e. less accurate location, less > specific categorization, etc) or unnecessary qualifiers (such as adding > information which is already contained in the item to item's qualifiers > - e.g. zip code for a building) > - Source references that do not exist (404, etc.) > - Source references that do exist but either duplicate existing one (a > number of sources just refer to different URL of the same data) or do > not contain the information they should (e.g. link to newspaper's > homepage instead of specific article) > - Claims that are almost obviously invalid (e.g. "United Kingdom" as a > genre of a play) > > I think at least some of these - esp. references that do not exist and > duplicates with no refs - could be removed automatically, thus raising > the relative quality of the remaining items. > > OTOH, some of the entries can be made self-evident - i.e. if we talk > about movie and Freebase has IMDB ID or Netflix ID, it may be quite easy > to check if that ID is valid and refers to a movie by the same name, > which should be enough to merge it. > > Not sure if those one-off things worth bothering with, just putting it > out there to consider. > > -- > Stas Malyshev > smalys...@wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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