Talk:Q5055038

Latest comment: 1 year ago by Jneubert in topic Follows

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Cavenham Food is showing as following Bovril. This in incorrect, it was created in 1964 and purchased Bovril in 1971. All referenced on Wikipedia. This needs to be removed as it is transferring to Wikipedia.Davidstewartharvey (talk) 16:35, 12 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

@Davidstewartharvey: Thanks for noticing and pointing out the exact relation between the two entities. There seems to be an issue of expressiveness of the used data structures re. mergers and accquistions: The source only has "Preceeding / Succeeding organisation". Wikidata has (only since 2020) merged into (P7888) (which would fit fine on the Bovril side), but no inverse property. Wikidata:WikiProject_Companies/Properties#Legal_and_reporting_hierarchy_linkages sugests using follows/follows by in these cases.
Please feel free to look for a better way to express the relation between the two companies in terms of WD properties. Anyway, you do not need to worry that the relation in some way is automatically transferred to Wikipedia. There is no such mechanism. Cheers, Jneubert (talk) 08:42, 13 May 2023 (UTC)Reply
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