On 30 September 2015 at 20:58, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think I've seen something somewhere saying that the prevailing sentiment > is that obsolete identifiers which are just redirects to a new identifier > should be removed. > I hope not. See my post at http://addshore.com/2015/04/redirects-on-wikidata/ Redirects should remain! Also see http://addshore.com/2015/09/un-deleting-500000-wikidata-items/ > > There's also the case of sites like MusicBrainz which keep the > non-canonical IDs without redirecting to the canonical ID, but will tell > you which ID is preferred, e.g. Fritz Kreisler > <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q78517#revision=254297158> > > https://musicbrainz.org/artist/590fcad4-2ba4-43bc-a22f-a4bb9b496fe8 > https://musicbrainz.org/artist/627ac6c2-ee5c-4120-8af3-ab00345447f5 > https://musicbrainz.org/artist/bf6d6ce1-ce88-40e6-9424-11d11d2e54ea > > where all the tabs for the second two pages actually point to the first, > canonical entry. > > Is there an established policy for either the redirect or non-redirect > case? > See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Deletion_policy#Deletion_of_items_.28Phase_I.29 which says "Items should not be deleted when - The item redirects to another item" Also see https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Merge#Create_redirect which says redirects should be created when items are merged > > I'd argue that even the obsolete identifiers are useful for inbound > resolution and reconciliation. Aggressively pruning them just makes more > work for people, because they must resolve the identifier that they have in > hand to its canonical form (probably by hitting the issuing authority) > before using it for Wikidata lookups. > > What do others think? > > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > -- Addshore
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