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Sweden: natural monuments not areas + 6517 duplicate items

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2001:7D0:81DA:F780:292D:872:DFA9:E80F (talkcontribs)

I checked a few more of these new items for CDDA sites. You created items for over 1300 natural monuments (protected trees, boulders an alike) in Sweden (CDDA code SE98) using P31=protected area (Q473972) statements, but these apparently aren't protected areas, just like in case of natural monuments in Estonia. About 14% of Swedish natural monuments are mapped by Naturvårdsverket as areas. This small part of natural monuments may be treated differently, but even these are groups of trees and alike, in case of which protected object in most cases can be considered identical to physical object that is being proteted. Just like is the case for a building (cultural heritage) which may be mapped as an area (building outline).

Also there are lots of duplicate items. Eventhough earlier you said you check if item with given WDPA id already exists, then apparently in case of Sweden you actually did not, e.g. there already was this, but you created a new item with the same identifers. Additionally matching CDDA's nationalId to Naturvårdsregistret ID (P3613) reveals that in total you recreated 6517 items (!) for Swedish protected objects that already were on Wikidata. Lots of sites already had been imported, e.g. by Alicia Fagerving (WMSE), from Naturvårdsregistret, i.e. the very same sites that Sweden submits to CDDA.

Yesterday I tried to clean up a couple of these sites, like Botsmarksblocket (Q10433905), i.e. get rid of erroneous area statements, as well as dubious official name statements that we discussed earlier, do merges, but a little later you readded bad statements or recreated a duplicate item (Q108220100).

I think you really should hold on with importing new data and rather focus on cleaning up the recently imported data. So far the mess you have created for Sweden alone is immense. Based on this, and small batch of Estonian data imported earlier, I must assume that situation for other countries isn't much better.

2001:7D0:81DA:F780:A4E7:969C:8B63:C5B2 (talkcontribs)

Thanks for requesting deletion of most of these duplicate items. However, I still find following 234 duplicate items based on matching P3612 and nationalId. Hopefully you can do something about these as well, either request deletion, or merge if you think you can do it in a clean way.