Use 'Birth name (P513)' (string datatype) for Cassius Clay or 'Official name' (Proposed property with monolingual text datatype) for Batavia - with date qualifiers.
Joe On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>wrote: > Hoi, > So how do I indicate that up to a particular date Jakarta was called > Batavia ? Muhammed Ali was called Cassius Clay ? There is no discussion > about it. All there is an (potentially perceived) inability to use > appropriate labels at will. > > Labels are not simple. > Thanks, > Gerard > > > On 6 March 2014 17:07, Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am 06.03.2014 16:27, schrieb Gerard Meijssen: >> > Hoi, >> > I hope this will be revisited. Many items change there name and >> dependent on a >> > date they or it are called differently. >> >> If the name is something that is changed, debated, or otherwise a subject >> of >> discussion, create a statement using an appropriate property. The point of >> having labels is precisely that they are simple. >> >> -- daniel >> >> -- >> Daniel Kinzler >> Senior Software Developer >> >> Wikimedia Deutschland >> Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > >
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