Hi Gerard, The entity would probably be.... a Lexeme :-) (yeah, I feel your pain also about merging and the loss of valuable data at times)
Thad https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 12:14 PM Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hoi, > What makes "Nobel prize winner" so special that we need an entity for > that. We have thousands and thousands of awards, the recipients of these > awards deserve in equal measure to be recognised. There are many other > awards like the UN Environment Programme awards that are not even in > Wikidata. > > Yes, we could do with more structure, we even need it. The biggest problem > we face is the lack of a conversation about quality. It allows !@#$% to > delete data from Wikidata because of what THEIR Wikipedia has determined to > be the gospel truth. It is why some !@#$ delete content because their > fetish with references. I am quite happy to add references by the way, it > just does not make sense to approach this on an item by item basis. > > I also find that I am spending more time on merging and massaging data. > The most important part is that even though a merged item has a better > quality, either perspective on an item was of value. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Sat, 28 Sep 2019 at 17:29, Thad Guidry <thadgui...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Another thing I see lacking here is the Common Concept itself is NOT in >> Wikidata currently. >> >> There is no entity that matches "nobel prize winner" currently. >> Perhaps one should be created? >> >> Anyways, I have started to help with a simple ShEx for validation that >> can be edited by all to help with Aidan's problem. >> (feel free to get in there, learn, and improve it, and check the entities >> from your query or queries you have, and add more rules or change them) >> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/EntitySchema:E126 >> >> Thad >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/thadguidry/ >> >> >
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