On 12 August 2014 22:49, Andre Engels <andreeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Sezgin Sucu <sezs...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q147630 >> I realized that, it is labeled as "Zara, Turkey" and not Zara. >> This seem wrong to me, since "Turkey" part of this label is already in the >> data as a country relation. >> It appears to be a one-to-one mapping of the wikipedia article's title. >> Maybe when first imported from wikipedia, its title is used as is. >> I want to verify my understanding that labels of entities should be as short >> as possible and should not attempt to disambiguate as it has to be done in >> wikipedia article titles. > > Again, you seem to be fighting a rule that does not exist. That the > title is "Zara, Turkey" is indeed because it is copied from the > Wikipedia article by that name, but Wikidata welcomes human as well as > automated edits, and I do agree that just "Zara", with Turkey > mentioned in the description, not the title, would be better. Agree. I believe a lot of the importing did try and remove disambiguation - however, they restricted themselves to cases like: WP: Zara (Turkey) > WD label: Zara In this case, it's obvious that everything after the comma is a disambiguation note, but there are many articles where the commas form part of the name and so you can't trim automatically - a good example is "Ross, Skye and Lochaber (UK Parliament constituency)", which should definitely be "Ross, Skye and Lochaber" not "Ross" :-) -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
