2013/7/31 Andrew Gray <[email protected]>: > Hi Nicholas, > > a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general > rule, it's one article per person, not per name. > > b) Different names is a quirk of the Wikipedia background - these > default to the title of the Wikipedia article on that person, and > there's no agreement on whether to put the article under the person or > the more famous pseudonym.
FYI, there is now a property for pseudonyms ( http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P742 ). > d) I think the initial assumption was that there was a 1=1 match, but > if there are multiple musicbrainz id's representing facets of the same > entity, then Wikidata will support adding several. It is possible to put several IDs coming from the same database. Actually, I'm trying to do this with multiple VIAF codes referring to the same author, and it could also become a "feedback" to the original database. -- Luca "Sannita" Martinelli http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utente:Sannita _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
