So far as data types go I'd look at the structure here http://www.freebase.com/business/employment_tenure?schema=
Something parallel to this satisfies the major requirements for describing who was the Mayor of Where When; perhaps the Mayor of New York is particularly notable, but sum total of significance of all mayors surely is greater and enough to be notable. Of course an uncountable number of "composite concepts" that people might want to reference that can be derived from a generic instance. For instance, "Economy of Japan" might be a good LCSH heading, but even the LCSH creates headings like that in a faceted organization that recognizes that there is an "Economy of [place]" for any [place]. If all of the useful composite concepts were materialized, you could puff Wikidata up by orders of magnitudes. ᐧ On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote: > Sad to see the Deletionists taking hold on Wikidata too. > > Tom > > > On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Thomas Douillard > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Yeah, there seem to be some cognitive dissonance going on here, it's >> weird. >> >> >> 2014-06-16 22:08 GMT+02:00 Derric Atzrott <[email protected]>: >> >>> > That's certainly what the policy says. It's not what some admins >>> > accept, though. >>> > >>> > A direct quote from one, from as recently as March this year: >>> > >>> > * The general spirit of the notability policy is that Wikipedia >>> > finds [the subject] notable >>> >>> This was also the general vibe that I had gotten that informed my >>> understanding of >>> notability on Wikidata before someone pointed out that policy actually >>> says >>> differently. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Derric Atzrott >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l > -- Paul Houle Expert on Freebase, DBpedia, Hadoop and RDF (607) 539 6254 paul.houle on Skype [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
