Find bruce

Hello and welcome

Hi and welcome to Wikidata! I saw some of your great work recently filling in details on NSW by-elections. Yes, it's very exciting, I have been doing a lot of work on Victorian MPs in the last week (my next task is to propose a property for the NSW Parliament bio register, so I'll let you know when that's ready) and Wikidata is ideal for finding people like Cooper who served in multiple parliaments. --Canley (talk) 04:11, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

Just wanted to let you know one thing I noticed on Auburn (Q3030905) (NSW)/Auburn (Q5355058) (Queensland), they shouldn't have the disambiguation in the main label in Wikidata, this should be the name only as unlike Wikipedia the disambiguation is done in the description field rather than the name of the entity. --Canley (talk) 11:58, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Canley - I had done that because I was getting confused as to whether I had selected the correct district when all you see is the main label & the description field is not shown, but if that's not the way its meant to be done, there are plenty of other things to devote my limited time to. --Find bruce (talk) 05:33, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

I reverted your merge of Paterson (Q577770) and Paterson (Q74533467). You are right that one is basically an earlier incarnation of the other but I believe they are better to be modelled as separate items in Wikidata. One of the reasons is that if the incarnation and abolished fields are applied to a single item, queries of current electoral divisions will now skip Paterson (Q577770) as it appears that it was abolished in 1984. If you just skip the gap when it didn't exist altogether (e.g. created in 1949, no abolished date) then a temporal query of divisions in 1990 will pick up Paterson as being in existence at that time. I guess it is possible to write a complicated query that checks for subsequent recreation, but given the often considerable geographic shifts of divisions even with the same name, I think it's not unreasonable to consider it a separate entity for these purposes. The downside is that only one item can link to the Wikipedia article, so I have been linking the later/current one. Happy to hear your thoughts if you disagree. --Canley (talk) 22:55, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Canley - I was linking it to Electoral results for the Division of Paterson (Q5356630) & thought it was an error that had been missed when the EN:WP pages were merged - as it was done deliberately I am happy to leave it that way. What I have done is identify them as different offices being contested with identified start & end times. I am wondering if it might help to identify the current version Paterson (Q577770) as has part(s) (P527) and historic Paterson (Q74533467) as part of (P361)? The issue comes up often in the NSW electoral districts, but at this stage there is a single wikidata page for the multiple incarnations. --Find bruce (talk) 03:47, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

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Kholoudsaa (talk) 20:22, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

References "imported from English Wikipedia"

If you are going to cite an external source for a statement, you do not need to also add that the statement was "imported from" "English Wikipedia". (You've been doing this quite a bit, as it were.)

(As an aside, if you plan to cite The London Gazette later, each issue has its own item now: The London Gazette 26516 (Q109154274), for example. Thus stated in (P248) The London Gazette (Q1137581), issue (P433), and reference URL (P854) are no longer necessary in references to such issues.) Mahir256 (talk) 18:37, 9 February 2022 (UTC)

Mix 'n' Match

Hi, so sorry I have been really busy over the last few weeks and haven't had a chance to look at the Mix 'n' Match for the Tas and SA parliament IDs. I see there is a catalog for the newly created Tas property - so did you work it out? - if so, great job and sorry I wasn't any help! I did find the data for SA if that's any use to you for when that one's approved. --Canley (talk) 07:34, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Thanks Canley - while I was waiting I made a spreadsheet with names & IDs copied from the website & people who had a wikidata position as a member of the assembly or council which matched roughly 3/4. I uploaded the spreadsheet but it doesn't seem to have worked - not sure if I am being impatient and the catalog will scrape the url for details or if I have missed something. Find bruce (talk) 08:08, 9 October 2022 (UTC)