Brill Lyle, It seems you have not reached consensus to use the catalog property in the way you have been doing, and your edits are now being reverted after not responding to various objections that can be seen in the links you have provided. If the "Black Lunch Table" catalog is published, either online or in book form, then you can reference the link to it on items using "catalog code" combined with "catalog=Black Lunch Table" with quick statements. Apparently you haven't done that, probably because the website that links from the item for "Black Lunch Table" holds no intormation about the subject items you have been editing besides the notice "Stay Tuned for Our Official Website". You can better wait until the website is published with the database before adding statements on Wikidata. Maybe you just misunderstood how to reference your statements. I understand why people involved with Wikidata quality (Sjoerd and others) objected because it now just looks like you added a statement about someone who ate lunch at a library. That really is not very useful information for Wikidata and gives the reader no way to confirm the information besides contacting the editor (you) via the history page of the item. This is not acceptable behavior on any Wiki project, and Wikidata is a wiki like any other. Here is a reversion you object to, but I must say I agree with the reverter, sorry. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q27990022&type=revision&diff=616257669&oldid=517374868
Jane On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Brill Lyle <wp.brilll...@gmail.com> wrote: > So User:Multichill has taken it upon himself to delete all of the catalog > entries for the Black Lunch Table. One of the first if not only successful > implementations of Wikidata as a task list for Wikipedia. > > There are other initiatives also using catalog, which I assume will also > be deleted. > > Beyond the fact that this destroys hundreds of hours of work, it also > negatively impacts outreach. > > If there was an alternative to catalog that could be used that would be > one thing. If there was discussion about this action, that would also be > one thing. But this wholesale destruction of outreach is unacceptable. > > https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special: > Contributions/Multichill&offset=&limit=500&target=Multichill > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User_talk:Multichill#Black_Lunch_Table > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property_talk:P972#Abuse_of_ > this_property_for_original_research > > https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_ > deletions#Artist_of_Black_Lunch_Table > > I am beside myself. I have been heavily evangelizing Wikidata in its > integration with Wikipedia, especially multiple language Wikipedias. > > This was such a hostile unconstructive act, I am beside myself. > > This catalog tag was meant to be used to support various En Wiki outreach > initiatives which address gender gap and diversity on the projects. What > has happened here has very seriously negatively impacted that work. > > I am asking for support here. If the property was not okay, which after > much discussion there seemed to be a consensus it was fine, then the > opportunity to find other solutions should have been made, versus deleting > all that work. > > - Erika > > *Erika Herzog* > Wikipedia *User:BrillLyle <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:BrillLyle>* > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > Wikidata@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > >
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