daniel added a comment.
For reference, the relevant report on Wikidata is
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Contact_the_development_team#Problem_on_Upper.2Flower_case
pointing to https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q563116 ("SOO") vs.
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1230747 ("Soo"). Both of these have the
description "Wikipedia disambiguation page".
I think the issue here is mainly that we have some types of pseudo-items for
disambiguation pages, categories, etc, that all have the same description.
That's contrary to the original intent to use different descriptions to
differentiate between items with the same or similar names.
Case insensitive uniqueness checks avoid duplicates caused by different
capitalization ("War and Peace" vs "War And Peace" vs "War and peace"). It also
forces more meaningful descriptions that help users to choose the correct item
from the type-ahead suggestions in the entity selector (instead of "FOO
(company)" and "Foo (company)" users would perhaps see "FOO (American company)"
and "Foo (Chinese electronics company").
I hope a different solution can be found for disambiguation pages and
categories. Ideally, those would not be shown at all when editing statements
(since they should generally not be used in statement values, I think).
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97129
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