Hoi,
<grin> the English word sibling is good enough.. </grin> because of the
gender of a person we would know if it is a brother or a sister... When we
know a parent, we implicitly know this already through child.. Consequently
in many occassions we do not need to register brother or sister at all.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 August 2015 at 15:15, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andrew Gray, 17/08/2015 13:29:
>
>> In some ways, merging seems more elegant. We do have fairly good
>> gender metadata (and getting better all the time!), so we can still do
>> gender-specific relationship searches where needed. It also avoids
>> having to force a binary gender approach - we are in the odd position
>> of being able to give a nuanced entry in P21 but can only say if
>> someone is a "sister" or "brother".
>>
>
> I think this is quite important. I think properties should focus on one
> thing at a time and there is no need to state both gender and family
> relationship in the same statement.
>
> Also, are we really sure we don't currently have linguistic issues? I bet
> there is at least one language in the world where "sister" and "brother"
> are not two distinct words.
>
> Nemo
>
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