Advice on the general case: a lot of country of citizenship properties, especially ones created early, were a bit slapdash and there's a lot of edge cases which get smoothed over. So don't assume they're gospel truth (or necessarily worth "disputing" rather than correcing) to begin with just because they've been there a while :-)
In this case, it looks like it was imported by inference from a Wikipedia category which implied nationality (eg "English writers") but may have been populated on the basis of residency or activity rather than official nationality; a lot of others got inferred from birth place, "born in London so British". Both of these are reasonable assumptions in about 99% of cases, but the 1% is a problem... Andrew. On 5 November 2017 at 10:40, Marco Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > What's the current procedure for disputing a non trivial claim on a > wikidata item? > > I know I can just go ahead and change a claim (statement and/or its > value) but the dispute itself would only be captured in the change-log > of the respective wikidata instance. > > Would one create a discussion entry on the item page first to motivate > a change on an item that's not straight forward? > > so for example on the item > > Paul Staines > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16191299 > > it states that person has > > :country of citizenship :United Kingdom > (a claim created by Rpfb119 on 1 April 2015 ) > > but on wikipedia-en it says nationality Irish without a reference > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Staines > > is there or should there be a qualifier/reference to flag a statement > to be in dispute? > > Also is this mailing-list the best place to discuss such (item > specific) matters? Or is the Wikidata community portal with the > Requests for comment service a better place? > > > thx > Marco > > > -- > > > --- > Marco Neumann > KONA > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata -- - Andrew Gray [email protected]
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