To be sure, some of the arguments had merit - better sourcing needed, BLP,
user interface improvements, etc.
But I was astonished to see many remarks amounting to, “Never Wikidata.”
A significant number saw EN.WP as its own exceptional isolated sustainable
entity that would only be polluted or weakened by decentralizing control
with Wikidata-generated content. Or that the sharing in the sum of all
human knowledge (and therefore, citations) was of no interest.
That’s quite sad to see.
-Andrew
On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Yaroslav Blanter <ymb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would say the arguments of users who voted to delete the template have
> merit, and the template was kept (and not even banished to the draft space)
> under the condition that attemps will be made to reduce the issues.
>
> Cheers
> Yaroslav
>
> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Robert Fernandez <wikigamal...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> While Wikidata certainly has concerns to deal with about accuracy and
>> vandalism, I think we need to push back against this mindset that Wikipedia
>> works perfectly while Wikidata is this unregulated free-for-all. I've run
>> into editors on en.wp objecting to a Wikidata infobox displaying the very
>> same information that was unsourced in that Wikipedia article for nearly a
>> decade. Both are a work in progress, both can do better, and these should
>> not be barriers to progress or integration.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 19 September 2017 at 19:18, Dario Taraborelli
>>> <dtarabore...@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > I wanted to draw your attention to a deletion nomination discussion
>>> for an
>>> > experimental template – {{Cite Q}} – pulling bibliographic data from
>>> > Wikidata:
>>>
>>> Closed as "no consensus"; it's worth reading the full comment:
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Templa
>>> tes_for_discussion/Log/2017_September_15&curid=55240730&diff
>>> =803445497&oldid=803444684
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