On 8 July 2015 at 13:32, Magnus Manske <[email protected]> wrote:
> Silly question: Why not leave the system as it is (allowing for non-unique
> aliases), but do some (reasonable) cleanup, then warn Wikipedia editors
when
> they use a non-unique alias? Like using references without the
{{reflist}}?
I like this approach a lot - presumably we already have such errors if you
use an alias that doesn't exist, or try to invoke a non-existent P number?
However, there's one possible problem that I can see - someone creating
duplicate aliases at a later date on Wikidata, and causing errors to pop up
across Wikipedia as a result. (When added they were fine, but now they're
ambiguous.) The editor might not realise this, and the first anyone knows
is when the client wikis complain...
A.
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