Hoi,
Most of these could be / should be qualifiers. Several are historic and no
longer valid.
Thanks,
    GerardM

On 29 November 2015 at 23:42, James Heald <j.he...@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

> If we look at Glasgow,
>      https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4093
>
> the values for P31 in question are:
>
>     Q515       -- city
>     Q15060255  -- council area
>     Q7309443   -- registration county
>     Q202435    -- lieutenancy area of Scotland
>     Q21457810  -- Scottish district (1975 to 1996)
>
> Each of those statuses is different and independent (even in a purely
> Scottish context):  none of them implies any of the others, none of them is
> implied by any of the others.
>
> So, in this case, I don't see that "city of Scotland" would help at all.
>
>   -- James.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 29/11/2015 17:56, Joe Filceolaire wrote:
>
>> Why have instance of item and instance of superclass of that item?
>> If Glasgow is instance of : city of Scotland  and
>> City of Scotland is subclass of : city
>> Then we should not have Glasgow instance of : city
>>
>> This principle should cut down a lot of these extra 'instances '
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 15:51 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Gerard Meijssen, 28/11/2015 07:05:
>>>
>>>> A big city is what? A city with more than a given number of inhabitants?
>>>> If so it is redundant because it can be inferred.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Criteria might be defined by local law and/or require some
>>> administrative act. That's how it works in Italy, for instance.
>>>
>>> Nemo
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