On 16 June 2014 19:49, Derric Atzrott <[email protected]> wrote:
> You've got me there. I could live with every city having a mayor item then. > That still makes me wonder what the purpose of the "of" qualifier is in > relation to "position held". > > Looking at the "position held" docs, n the example given they use: > Barrack Obama -> Position Held -> United State Senator -> of -> United States > Senate. > > This seems to be somewhat redundant information as the fact that he was "of" > the United States Senate seems to be implied by the very definition of being > a United States Senator. To recast it in terms of mayor, it would be like > saying Mayor of Frederick in Frederick. The "of" qualifier is (IME) currently used for cases where we don't have "X of Y", so we use "X" of "Y" - position held: "mayor" of "Frederick" rather than "mayor of Frederick" Once we have the more specific property, we can just switch over and stop using "of" qualifiers. -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
