Ngostary2k

Welcome to Wikidata, Ngostary2k!

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Best regards! Bovlb (talk) 03:12, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the welcome message on Wikidata. I hope to learn more on it so I can contribute effectively.

Thank you again. Ngostary2k (talk) 11:04, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

January 2024

Thank you for contributing to Wikidata. I see that you recently created an item Q113521478 that does not clearly indicate its notability. The Wikidata project only accepts items that meet its notability criteria, and your item is therefore likely to be deleted soon. In brief, items must have an associated Wikipedia article, must be needed for statements on another notable item, or must have both identifiers and serious sources. For the last case, a good indication of notability would be multiple articles about the subject in independent publications like newspapers or magazines. You can add such sources as references to specific claims using reference URL (P854), or as top-level claims using described at URL (P973).

Also, this may not apply in this specific case, but you should know that we discourage editors from contributing on topics with which they have a strong personal connection, as this may present a conflict of interest. If you are being paid to edit here, then you are obliged to disclose this. For a longer version, you might find it useful to read the essay "How to create an item on Wikidata so that it won't get deleted".  Bovlb (talk) 03:12, 13 January 2024 (UTC) --Bovlb (talk) 03:12, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for pointing this out. I actually have no conflict of interest on the topic.

However, I didn't know articles in Wikidata can be deleted as in Wikipedia.

This is news to me. I was thinking that Wikidata is a safe heaven without relying so much on notability and references.

Now, tell me something. Ngostary2k (talk) 11:08, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for responding.

Do you have any suggestions for how we could make our notability policies more obvious to new users?

I'm curious where you might have picked up the idea that Wikidata is not concerned with notability and references. Did you get introduced to Wikidata through any training or outreach? If so, they should have covered the basics of notability. Bovlb (talk) 18:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

I am more of a Wikipedia person than Wikidata. I know all the rules on the guidelines and principles of Wikipedia but I hardly heard of that as regards Wikidata.

Honestly, my impression of Wikidata is that as a database, any item can be created with reference not being overly important like Wikipedia. Thus, I created items without attaching references on Wikidata until recently. The last few items I created have references. So I have learned that now (smiles).

I think Wikidata should be facilitated with focus on adding references like in Wikipedia. Thank you. Ngostary2k (talk) 18:39, 13 January 2024 (UTC)