Let me comment on the original question. The correct citation is typically
the oldest one known to the researcher, not the most popular.

On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hoi,
> I am truly happy that Wikidata is its own master. When a Wikipedia has
> certain policies it is welcome to it. As long as they do not use Wikidata
> to improve the quality of its content [1] and by the same token improve the
> data at Wikidata, I am not interested what a Wikipedia does.
> Thanks,
>       GerardM
>
> [1]
> http://ultimategerardm.blogspot.com/2016/01/wikipedia-lowest-hanging-fruit-from.html
>
> On 28 February 2016 at 20:31, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Wikidata appears to allow original research and the inference of gender
>> from the name or photo of the subject. It will be a cold day in hell before
>> en.wiki allows this, see [[WP:RS]] and .[[WP:OR]].
>>
>> cheers
>> stuart
>> --
>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:20 AM, Jane Darnell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> But there have also been lots of corrections. As far as painters go, the
>>> data is really pretty decent now. It helps that it's really easy to check
>>> the state of Wikidata against the contents of Wikipedia categories. As more
>>> people become aware of how to make such checks, I think we start to see a
>>> cleanup of categories and (I hope) a better categorization system starting
>>> to form that is more  in line with Wikidata property class trees.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Data has been sucked from GND to wikidata via a number of routes,
>>>> principally VIAF.
>>>> See Wikidata:Bot_requests#Import_GND_identifiers_from_VIAF_dump for example
>>>> for a discussion of an instance of this.
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>> stuart
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hoi,
>>>>> The blog states that a lot of data was sucked into Wikidata from GND.
>>>>> As far as I am aware that never happened. So its assertion is wrong.
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>       GerardM
>>>>>
>>>>> On 28 February 2016 at 19:43, Stuart A. Yeates <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 7:14 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
>>>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hoi,
>>>>>>> It is trivial when you only consider Wikidata.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've previous blogged about the issues with sex / gender in wikidata
>>>>>> at
>>>>>> http://opensourceexile.blogspot.co.nz/2014/07/adrian-pohl-wrote-some-excellent.html
>>>>>> has the sitaution moved on?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>> stuart
>>>>>>
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