Property talk:P1705

Latest comment: 6 months ago by Itorokelebogile in topic Native label P1705 and family names Q101352

Documentation

native label
label for the items in their official language (P37) or their original language (P364)
Representsnative label (Q45025080)
Data typeMonolingual text
Template parameterpl:Szablon:Język infobox, pl:Szablon:Miasto infobox, pl:Szablon:Parafia infobox
Domainalmost every Q item that is an instance on Earth (Q2) with class of i.e. geographic location (Q2221906) (place), organization (Q43229) (organization), event (Q1656682) (event), work (Q386724) (creative work) etc. or instance of language (Q34770) (language). (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
ExampleMoscow (Q649)Москва
Pirelli Tower (Q920809)Pirellone
Polish (Q809)język polski
France (Q142)France
République française
Baranagar (Q712504)বরানগর
Kolbe (Q1779036)Kolbe
sushi (Q46383)すし
寿司

Dagbani (Q32238)
Robot and gadget jobsDeltaBot does the following jobs: potentially possible i.e. using country (P17) or original language of film or TV show (P364) with mapping table to language code the value might be created from current label
Tracking: usageCategory:Pages using Wikidata property P1705 (Q23909110)
Tracking: local yes, WD nono label (Q101364360)
See alsoname in native language (P1559), official name (P1448), title (P1476), name (P2561), birth name (P1477), given name (P735), family name (P734)
Lists
Proposal discussionProposal discussion
Current uses
Total1,112,904
Main statement1,033,73992.9% of uses
Qualifier78,8307.1% of uses
Reference335<0.1% of uses
[create Create a translatable help page (preferably in English) for this property to be included here]
Conflicts with “instance of (P31): human (Q5), Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410): this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1705#Conflicts with P31, SPARQL
Conflicts with “title (P1476): this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1705#Conflicts with P1476, SPARQL
Conflicts with “instance of (P31): television series (Q5398426), film (Q11424), musical work/composition (Q105543609), album (Q482994), single (Q134556): this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1705#Conflicts with P31, SPARQL
Conflicts with “instance of (P31): written work (Q47461344), literary work (Q7725634), book (Q571): this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1705#Conflicts with P31, SPARQL
Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as qualifier (Q54828449), as reference (Q54828450): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1705#Scope, SPARQL
Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)
Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1705#Entity types
Single value (per input language) constraint
The property should not be used more than once with the same language code per item; see Property talk:P1705#Multiculturalism for discussion (Help)
Violations query: SELECT ?item WHERE { ?item wdt:P1705 ?nativeLabel } GROUP BY ?item HAVING(COUNT(?nativeLabel) > 1 && COUNT(DISTINCT LANG(?nativeLabel)) = 1)
List of this constraint violations: Database reports/Complex constraint violations/P1705#Single value (per input language) constraint
Check on multiple values
Items with more than 3 values might not be using this property correctly (Help)
Violations query: SELECT ?item (COUNT(?nativeLabel) as ?count) (GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT(lang(?nativeLabel)); separator=" ") as ?langs) (GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT(str(?nativeLabel)); separator=";") as ?values) WHERE { ?item wdt:P1705 ?nativeLabel } GROUP BY ?item HAVING(?count > 3) ORDER BY DESC(?count) LIMIT 1000
List of this constraint violations: Database reports/Complex constraint violations/P1705#Check on multiple values
This property is being used by:

Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Discussion edit

Constraints… edit

  • Is it useful to have a single value constraint here? I would suggest to remove this constraint.
  • For humans we have name in native language (P1559) instead, which should be marked as incompatible with this property then.

MisterSynergy (talk) 09:19, 2 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

I added a conflicts constraint meanwhile; most items that use this property are of one of the following types: language (Q34770), work (Q386724), event (Q1656682), organization (Q43229), geographic location (Q2221906), name (Q82799), anatomical structure (Q4936952), ethnic group (Q41710), award (Q618779), position (Q4164871), animal (Q729). Maybe we can limit it to something similar…? —MisterSynergy (talk) 12:28, 2 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
User:MisterSynergy description on native label (P1705) says "label for the items" and Wikidata entries are called items so it can be used on any items, and you can't just remove them, search engines may use this property. Mjbmr (talk) 13:05, 2 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
I only shifted items about humans from P1705 to P1559, which is the correct property to use for humans instead of this one, and some non-human items from P1559 to P1705 since they do not have a “native language”. It is not useful to duplicate identical data in two properties as it was the case for a couple of hundred items, and it is also difficult if we spread data with identical meaning to different properties.
As far as I can see there is no data lost, otherwise feel free to point to such problems and I will correct that. Search engines have to use the correct property anyway, and for humans it is P1559. —MisterSynergy (talk) 13:15, 2 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
User:MisterSynergy I already had name in native language (P1559) on my humans so to me you just removed native label (P1705) from my humans and it's a huge lost. Mjbmr (talk) 13:21, 2 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
Could you please provide an example/diff link? If both properties hold the same value, what’s the loss if we reduce redundancy? There are barely any humans with P1705, and nobody would expect this information there… —MisterSynergy (talk) 13:25, 2 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

native label (P1705) and official name (P1448) edit

Hi,

@Jura1, Fexpr, Letzi', Adert, Harmonia Amanda, MisterSynergy: (biggest users of this property according to NavelGazer)

When should we use native label (P1705) and when should we use official name (P1448)? The description are overlapping « label for the items in their official language (P37) or their original language (P364) » and « official name of the subject in its official language(s) » and indeed a request shows that a lot of item have the same value with both property (and same as the label itself...) :

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?original ?official WHERE {
	?item wdt:P1705 ?original ; wdt:P1448 ?official .
	filter ( ?original = ?official)
	SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "fr" }
}
Try it!

Is it ok and/or expected to triple information like this? (and should then launch a bot in order to be consistent on all items) or should we use only the more precise property official name (P1448)?

Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 10:24, 23 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks for this topic. I see potential to streamline these properties as well. Particularly native label (P1705) and official name (P1448) have overlapping scope (as mentioned by you), and the person-specific name in native language (P1559) and birth name (P1477)/married name (P2562) also lead to redundancies. There’s also the rarely used name (P2561). Until now I only used P1559 a lot, and made sure that its type constraint is not violated any longer by use in non-person items.
It could be an option to more clearly define the scope of all these properties and force it with constraints, or to “merge” some of them into each other, maybe with more qualifier use. I’m open for any suggestion at this point. —MisterSynergy (talk) 10:51, 23 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
I think this property must be used very carefully (and almost never be used) with places. Let's have a look at the examples at the top of this page.
Pirelli Tower (Q920809) → Pirellone (or any other valid name in Italian): OK, because this tower was built in an Italian-speaking country, its "original language" is Italian.
Moscow (Q649) → Москва. Are you sure russian is the "original language" of Moscow? Or is it Old Church Slavonic (Q35499) or another older, prehistoric, forgotten language? I don't think we will ever know the "original language" of Moscow, or of any old town or city. This property should be avoided with old places because they don't have any "original language". El Caro (talk) 13:48, 23 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
I don't think either property should be used on people. Other than that, I think P1705 is easier to use. As people may not focus on the same aspects, either property has it's advantages. Which ones would you want to remove? I think blind bot edits are dangerous on either.
--- Jura 09:56, 25 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
@Jura1: I'm just pointing out problems with the description of native label (P1705) :
  • the description in not the same in different languages: description in French and Italian is only about « original language » but in English, German, Spanish, etc. is both about « official and original language »
  • the description in English, German, Spanish, etc. is overlapping with official name (P1448) description (description in Italian even explicitly recommand to use official name (P1448), @ValterVB: who added this precision). The request above shows that there is indeed overlapping and duplicate values.
  • « original » is not documented.
I'm maybe wrong but as a start I think we should remove the « official » part in the description (ie. going with the spirit of the French and Italian description). And give more explanation about the meaning of « original » (maybe something along « the name in the current/local/original/native? language, not the original name », advices and inputs are welcome here). Plus, a {{Complex constraint}} could probably be created to solve (at least partially) the comment « potentially possible i.e. using country (P17) or original language of film or TV show (P364) with mapping table to language code the value might be created from current label ».
About not using it for people, I tend to agree and there is already a constraint for that, so - if there is no objection - I think we should clean these constraint violations (here we can use PetScan to remove native label (P1705) as the 77 human (Q5) with native label (P1705) all already have a name in native language (P1559) with the exact same value).
I forgot to ping   Notified participants of WikiProject Names
Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 11:36, 25 February 2017 (UTC)Reply
I think it tends to be the label in the official language somehow associated with the item (not necessairly the item's official language). The label isn't necessarily the "official name" of the item. Depending on the use, you may want one or the other. If it's identical, you'd probably display just one. Maybe we want to look into item where you think this creates problems.
--- Jura 17:11, 26 February 2017 (UTC)Reply

I came here for the same reason. Pity there wasn't a clear answer. Rehman 14:42, 13 October 2019 (UTC)Reply

Multiculturalism edit

At Special:Permalink/703379123#Why_is_native_label_(P1705)_subject_to_a_single-value_constraint @Jmabel, Jc86035: noted that this property has conflicts in multicultural communities where people speaking different languages have different native names for topics including places, people, and events. I agree.

Support remove the single value constraint. Blue Rasberry (talk) 13:49, 27 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Support as the one who originally raised the issue elsewhere. - Jmabel (talk) 15:48, 27 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Support per my own comments. Jc86035 (talk) 05:17, 28 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Support Pmt (talk) 05:28, 30 June 2018 (UTC)Reply
Support remove the single value constraint. --Davidpar (talk) 12:42, 25 November 2018 (UTC)Reply
  • Removed the single value constraint, and added a complex constraint on this page. The new "single value (per input language) constraint" looks for multiple values with the same language code; we cannot do this with the conventional single value constraint. —MisterSynergy (talk) 20:19, 25 November 2018 (UTC)Reply

639-1 is not a good requirement edit

The label requires a 639-1 value. This is a problem when the language has only a 639-3 (which is the vast majority of languages). How can you introduce the native label for Dagara (Q11004218) when its only code is dgi? --Marcmiquel (talk) 14:00, 8 June 2019 (UTC)Reply


Multiple values issue edit

Following the removal of the single value constraints, many items have now more statements than they actually should have.

  • What is the plan to clean this up?
  • How should we notify the users that do such incorrect additions.

The single value constraint took care of most of that. ----- Jura 16:51, 30 January 2020 (UTC)Reply

I'm remove the some 1300 values added to name items (e.g. Laga (Q37330527)). To avoid that this happens again, I added a suggestion constraint. --- Jura 18:20, 1 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
Now it shows a problem again when having two values (with different language codes) in officially bilingual areas as well. That seems no perfect solution to me. --J budissin (talk) 11:57, 9 March 2020 (UTC)Reply

Native label P1705 and family names Q101352 edit

Hi there,

This is a very broad, open-ended question. How should P1705 be used on Q101352 (family name). I've seen multiple different takes which suggests to me there's no consensus.

Please consider examples such as:

  • Smith (clearly English, though used in various countries)
  • Luty (present in Polish, present in English, etymology totally different)
  • Muller vs Müller, Kwasniewski vs Kwaśniewski (in non-umlaut countries you're likely to see Muller more often Müller)
  • Surnames that may come from non-latin scripts

Should surnames get the native label in multiple languages and that's all? Wouldn't it make sense to include the native label based on the source language, too?

I'm totally open to me being confused and, e.g., conflating native label with language of work or name Property:P407 in terms of what I'd like to accomplish, but even if I'm not getting it right, other Wikipedians seems to have similar problems and vary in how they approach this topic (e.g., some have been deleting native labels set to a specific language and retaining only the native label set to multiple languages; others leave all other labels alone, but add preferred rank to the instance with multiple languages; others list out multiple native labels: e.g., in the case of Muller they might do Muller (multiple languages), Muller (German), Müller (German).

Here's a few conversations I've had about this:

User talk:Quick-O-Mat (scroll down to Kwasigroch - removal of native label)

User talk:Gymnicus (scroll down to Setting (multiple languages) to preferred rank / adding described at for Internet Dictionary of Polish Surnames)

I appologize in advance if I've caused havoc by including native labels set to Polish for surnames that are chiefly Polish. Itorokelebogile (talk) 08:09, 20 September 2023 (UTC)Reply

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