Great work and hats off to the NACO trained librarian (in this case someone at the Library of Congress -looking at the DLC value in $a in 040: http://viaf.org/processed/LC%7Cn%20%2094111116) that created his name authority file. One should always consider consulting the Library of Congress Name Authority File. Almost never fails.
violeta On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Daniel Mietchen < [email protected]> wrote: > Nice, Denny. > > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:15 PM, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Just a little story I wanted to share. > > > > As I sometimes do, today I hit the “Random item” link on Wikidata. Almost > > always I can find something I can improve, and almost always I learn some > > random fun fact that I usually forget within a few moments. > > > > Today might be different. The link took me to Q14829494, the beetle > species > > Linsleychroma monnei. The species didn’t have much information on it: it > is > > a species, it had the genus, Linsleychroma. A link to the Encyclopedia of > > Life and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. There were links > to > > seven different Wikipedia language editions - the usual suspects for > > species, Cebuano, Indonesian, Waray-Waray, Minangkabau, Vietnamese, Dutch > > and Swedish. If you’re around on Wikidata you recognize this list as the > > language editions who have used bot created articles extensively. > > > > The articles had hardly more information than Wikidata. Two of them had a > > sentence about the larvae being damaging to wood, some included that the > > species lives in Panama. They all listed the taxon author, Giesbert 1998, > > which was missing in Wikidata, so I thought, let’s add that to Wikidata. > All > > I need is to find or create an item for Giesbert. Shouldn’t be too hard. > > > > OK. A bit of Googling and the name of Giesbert seems to be Edmund F. > > Giesbert. Now there seems to be an actor that usually uses the name Ed > > Gilbert, but who might have been born as Edmund Giesbert. Probably just a > > coincidence. Although, English Wikipedia doesn’t say so anymore - that > > changed in just two months ago, when the user fixed the typos on this > page > > and changed Giesbert to Gilbert. > > [ > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ed_Gilbert&diff=712105192&oldid=712096468 > ] > > > > I also reached out to the Raidohist, the editor who fixed the name > > difference. > > > > But many other sources on the Web still claim that Gilbert’s name was > > Giesbert. Unfortunately, many of them seem to be copies from Wikipedia, > and > > thus prone to citogenesis. IMDB doesn’t say Giesbert, but Gilbert, so do > a > > few of the other sources. So maybe Wikipedia sourced that error? > > > > Gilbert died in 1999 in Beverly Hills. Giesbert’s papers had no > institution, > > but listed his private address - this happens rarely, for researchers > > without affiliation. Giesbert’s address? Beverly Hills. And then stumbled > > upon this obituary for Frank Hovore > > [ > http://oldsite.the-signal.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=33168&format=print > ], > > mentioning that Frank’s old friend of thirty years, Edmund Giesbert, had > > died in 1999. > > > > Are Gilbert and Giesbert the same person? Was the actor who voiced in a > > number of Disney’s shows and played in Dallas and Knight Rider, the same > > person describing Linsleychroma monnei and other bugs and beetles? > > > > Wikidata also has a number of identifiers for Gilbert, including for the > > Library of Congress and VIAF - and finally, the Library of Congress > seems to > > give the best clue: “Edmund F. Giesbert, educ. at the Univ. of Chicago; > > works in the film, TV and radio industries in Los Angeles, and pursues > the > > study of Coleoptera (Cerambycidae) as a serious avocation.” > > Based on that, I decided to merge the newly created Gilbert into the > > long-existing Giesbert. > > > > If I am wrong - which I might easily be - feel free to fix it. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikidata mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >
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