Andrew, what would be your first choice for conflict resolution here? write an entry into the relevant item/discuss page? or go for a Requests for comment on the Community portal? or to contact the claim author directly?
On Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 5:52 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > -- --- Marco Neumann KONA _______________________________________________ Wikidata mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata
