Topic on User talk:Matlin

It think different from (P1889) statement is an unnecessary noise in most places where you add it. Per property description it's not meant for linking to any item with identical label, but "another item, with which it is often confused". For instance, it's quite hard to mix a disambiguation page item for anything else, as far as user isn't entirely careless and at least briefly checks the page. (An exception to this may be items on person names, as these might get mixed indeed due to Wikipedia versions having different approaches to listing persons on disambiguation pages.) You however apparently add "different from" to any topic that on Wikipedia links to a disambiguation page, e.g. here.

If different from (P1889) is used I'd expect that other concept being linked is similar, or topics overlap to a considerable degree, or in addition to identical label topics are also closely related, or there is other reason why topics actually may be often confused with one another.

Care to explain at least your rationale when adding these "different from" statements? It's just a downside of batch editing? If it's the latter then please at least pay attention to corrections by other users. I removed some of these statements per my previous comment, but you just readded these without any comment (e.g. ), which is sort of disrespectful. Apparently I'm not the only one puzzled by your edits either, e.g. see .

The reason is: info of disambig pages are still in Wikipedia articles. And i saw confusion with disambig's. And it makes not any noise. It is helpful e.g. for me, when i want to see quickly infos about another persons with the same name. Et caterera. Et caetera.

This practice is common in Wikidata. Surnames/family names have statement: Property:P1889: [disambig item], qualifier: Property:P1013 : Q27924673 (family name has to use a different item than disambiguation pages).

The purpose of disambiguation pages/hatnotes on Wikipedia is different in principle: they generally don't indicate confusion, but are there only to guide users to articles that couldn't be found otherwise.

Yes, as already pointed out above, in case of surnames/family names there may be a real confusion, as some Wikipedia versions list persons by name on disambiguation pages and hence otherwise items may get merged, as disambiguation page on one Wikipedia version and article on name on another Wikipedia may seem "close enough" to some users. You however add "different from" with disambiguation page link to other kinds of items such as those on settlements.