Jimkats

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Αυτός ο χρήστης έχει ως μητρική του γλώσσα τα Ελληνικά.

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Hello, I'm jimkats from Greece.

Main Wikidata interests are about Greece and specifically: administrative entities, settlements, WLM entries.

I'm also interested in fixing various items, such as adding missing statements which can be helpful identifying the item, such as "located in the administrative territorial entity (P131)", "coordinate location (P625)" and "location (P276)". This applies mostly to items found in "What links here" and "items near this item".
This doesn't exclude other cases, such as items about archaeological sites and ancient places. I'm interested in history, although not in such depth for the items' completion in terms of statements and identifiers as others do. I research about those things as much as I can, when it's about Wikidata, or even OpenStreetMap when needed. But I'm just an IT/computers guy :P. The written history is complicated, especially when various mentions and references contradict each other or misinterpret writings from other languages.

A main issue is the conflict of modern settlements, ancient settlements, archaeological sites and administrative entities. Several times, at least two of them are in the same item which is usually not proper. It may be different per country, especially the settlements/administrative entities conflict, but in my opinion they should be differentiated as they refer to different stuff and historically hold different data which sometimes may coincide. Just because they have several similarities mainly due to naming, doesn't mean they should be merged in the same item. That's why "different from (P1889)" is used sometimes, to help those who don't research enough to understand that they should not merge two items due to label similarities.

Any criticism and suggestions are welcome. I'm just trying to make the items better following the guidelines, properties and community suggestions, and their time-to-time improvements and updates (such as the deprecation of the property "of (DEPRECATED) (P642)" which is commonly used as qualifier, and can be replaced by "part of (P361)" or depending on the case other related properties which are commonly used as statements).

Wikidata queries

These are some random Wikidata queries, for various usages. Mainly for personal quick reference, but can be used by anyone if they find them useful.

https://w.wiki/EDHq - Items with instance of municipality of Greece (Q1349648) which don't have official website (P856) set (all current municipalities have it, this query now shows former municipalities, which now are municipal units)
https://w.wiki/EHb5 - Items with a value in located in the administrative territorial entity (P131) that isn't an administrative entity.
Many users, especially non-Greeks, erroneously add in that property a settlement, for example Patras (Q133123). Unlike in some other countries, in Greece the settlements (villages/towns/cities) aren't considered an administrative entity. The communes are the lowest administrative subdivision of Greece (i.e. Commune of Agrinio (Q125127760)), while the lowest administrative authority of Greece are municipalities (i.e. Athens Municipality (Q1224979)), which is what being used a main value in located in the administrative territorial entity (P131).
https://w.wiki/ELDz - Items of Greek settlements with the property shares border with (P47).
Most of them don't need it and they usually refer to the respective communes, which have their own items. The property is applicable for settlements which are really close to one another and their urban areas intersect, like the suburbs of Athens, or like Trikala of Corinthia (Ano Trikala (Q12885459), Mesi Synoikia Trikalon (Q21591192) and Kato Synoikia Trikalon (Q21591183)).

Notes:

So, using lang templates in the user page, changes how you see labels and descriptions of items on their page and in the Nearby page. By using plain userbox template, and therefore manually add the same info the lang template does in the user page, stops these issues from occurring. I was doing well for not having a user page in Wikidata for so long :P