Wikidata

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )

Joined 14 December 2012
User page Discussion

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QuotesEdit

  • A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day. (Source: How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work in the New York Times on January 21, 2012)

Wiki Commons contributers get entries?Edit

The people of the future will want to know more about the photographer, and we are not exactly overwhelmed by people identifying themselves as contributors, most post under an anonymous screenname. If you look at VIAF and LCCN it is filled with the names of people who wrote one book, and there is no known information at all known about them. If they wrote two books and are duplicated in the list, we will never know to be able to merge the entries. We don't want to leave that mess to future generations to unravel. I am not against having a minimum number of contributions, or being a contributor for a certain number of years to get an entry to prevent spamming.

Why do we remove entries for living people that have verifiable YouTube accounts and Instagram accounts?Edit

This stems from the problem of bots creating potentially fake entries that are used for fraud. Another worry is people hijacking existing verified Wikidata entries. Wikidata requires some reliable source to match a real person to an account so that it can be verified.

Selma Freudenberg quotesEdit

  • "I couldn't believe it, if it had just been a social event I could have understood, but this means peoples' lives, at least there are 4 people who have been won over, … it's pathetic, If a crisis arose, people would turn around and ask what C.D. was doing for them. We need something to wake people up. We want to win people over, If we save only one person it's all worthwhile."
    • Selma Louise Freudenberg on the lack of interest in attending Civil Defense preparedness classes on December 6, 1961. The Cuban Missile Crisis was from October 16, 1962 to October 28, 1962.
  • "I really feel we have a big job to do to keep women from getting panicky if something happens; what will they do then, go out and get prepared when it's too late? If I have time with my three children plus the job, then I'm sure many others do too. Some one has to wake them up and I'm sure going to try."
    • Selma Louise Freudenberg on the lack of interest in attending Civil Defense preparedness classes on October 9, 1961.

Exploited identifiersEdit

AcronymsEdit

  • LTA = Long Term Abuse.
  • SEO = Search Engine Optimization.

Priority New IdentifiersEdit

What reference source is the most deprecatedEdit

I have been fixing errors and noticed that some sources have more typos than others. Is there a way to search for our most deprecated source ... typos and other errors that have to deprecated because they are never corrected at the source. See for instance Michele Cerimele (Q55836816) where I deprecated a date because of a typo in our source: "Archivio Storico Ricordi". I fixed a dozen or so typos like that today. --RAN (talk) 07:52, 10 December 2020 (UTC)

Political graveyardEdit

I may have asked before, but I never saw an answer. How do I go from http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html, which is where Google takes me, to the decimal version of the entry on the page. See for example http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fitzgerald.html#096.28.47 ? So I can enter it in Wikidata as per this example: David Edward Fitzgerald (Q98133137) --RAN (talk) 04:48, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Curious arrangement. Best I can suggest is you inspect the element (i.e. look at the HTML markup) for the politician you're after, having manually located their entry on the page. So for Fitzgerald, Andrew, the element is a link <a name="194.19.01">Fitzgerald, Andrew</a>, from which you can derive the Political Graveyard politician ID (P8462) value, fitzgerald.html#194.19.01. --Tagishsimon (talk) 09:39, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Vaudeville performerEdit

Is there any way I can automate adding occupation=vaudeville_performer where description contains "vaudeville performer"? I was doing it by hand, but there are too many. --RAN (talk) 19:06, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

@Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ): This report will list them. I presume you can quickstatements? 2 minute job. --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:03, 24 November 2020 (UTC)

DAHREdit

  • User talk:Babaluma
  • User talk:Saverkamp

QueryEdit

Wikidata:SPARQL_query_service/Query_Helper

Everyone and everythingEdit

Why doesn't Wikidata contain everyone and everything? We prioritize information dense entries and try and avoid information sparse entries. For instance VIAF and LCCN are databases of authors and other media creators. Some entries are information dense and have birth and death years. Other entries are information sparse, and always will be. There can be dozens of entries of "John Smith" as an author of a single book, and no other information. As we merge disparate databases and identify people, we need enough information to recognize that two entries in two databases are the same person.

Databases to uploadEdit

Calculated ageEdit

  • Date of Death: age at event = 86 years old

Create propertyEdit

  • Military specialty=platoon leader, sapper, rifleman, sniper, medic, cook, radioman

COVID-19 deathsEdit

Wikidata:WikiProject_COVID-19

The following query uses these:

  • Properties: cause of death (P509)     
    SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P509 wd:Q84263196.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
Try it!

1918-1920 flu pandemic deathsEdit

The best way to find more is to search for pneumonia deaths between 1918 and 1920.

The following query uses these:

  • Properties: cause of death (P509)     
    SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P509 wd:Q178275.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
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AIDS (Q12199) 142Edit

The following query uses these:

  • Properties: cause of death (P509)     
    SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P509 wd:Q12199.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
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AIDS related complications deaths (Q4651894) 588Edit

The following query uses these:

  • Properties: cause of death (P509)     
    SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P509 wd:Q4651894.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
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AIDS related disease (Q28608836) 34Edit

The following query uses these:

  • Properties: cause of death (P509)     
    SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P509 wd:Q28608836.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
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HIV (Q15787)Edit

The following query uses these:

  • Properties: cause of death (P509)     
    SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {
  ?item wdt:P509 wd:Q15787.
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
Try it!

ImagesEdit

Newest to be createdEdit

  • Thomas Patrick Norton (1920-2011) memoir
  • Thomas Patrick Norton Liberty ship
  • Penny Van Deusen interview of Maria Elizabeth Winblad
  • Thomas Patrick Norton (1920-2011) video
  • Hollygrove video
  • Thomas Patrick Norton WWI postcard

Various mediaEdit

DAR IDEdit

Error trackingEdit

The following errors need to be corrected:

ProjectEdit

  • Anders Örbom and the Ryttmästares of the Jämtland Ranger Regiment

SignaturesEdit

Category:SVG signatures of people from the United States
  • Thomas Patrick Norton I (1891-1968) signature from 1932.svg
  • File:Eddie August Schneider (1911-1940) signature from 1940.svg
  • Louis Julius Freudenberg (1894-1918) signature from June 5, 1917 final.svg
  • File:Arthur Oscar Freudenberg (1891-1968) signature from June 20, 1917.svg
  • John Edward Winblad

Swedish geography questions answeredEdit

User talk:Yger

Swedish extant gravesEdit

FamiliesEdit

WikitreeEdit

  • Stan Courtney Schneider family
  • Jared Banta Jensen family
  • Carol (Peckham) Poulos Lattin family, she writes me telling me to turn over my Findagrave entries to her, and she told family members not to cooperate with me, that she was the family genealogist

Can a bot add in siblings?Edit

If someone has 11 children with entries in Wikidata someone has to add in the 10 siblings to each record of each child for 100 entries. This could better be handled by a bot that will give fewer errors. Does one exist already?  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk • contribs).

I'm not sure what the point would be. Queries would be better off just checking the parent-child data directly. --Yair rand (talk) 02:13, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
  • I think most people would be coming to Wikidata through Google or Siri or Alexa, and not running a query using SPARQL. Especially for entries not in English Wikipedia. --RAN (talk) 13:30, 10 October 2019 (UTC)
Poulpy used to run such a bot, I believe. Thierry Caro (talk) 04:16, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
A bot would be best, but in the short term you can use User:Matěj Suchánek/moveClaim.js to copy claims from one item to another. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:17, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
If no one has the script available, I would be willing to create and run it, if a request is made via WD:RBOT. I believe there will be more family relations that can be handled the same way (sibblings, parents/children, grand-parents, uncles, etc). I am working out something similar with ranges (follows (P155) and followed by (P156)) in a serie/chain. Edoderoo (talk) 12:43, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
You have User:Magnus Manske/consistency_check.js that helps - Salgo60 (talk) 17:21, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

Research IDsEdit

  • ORCID
  • Scopus
  • ResearcherID
  • LinkedIn

Interesting editorsEdit

  • Auntof6 deletes Simple English entries
  • Nikkimaria deletes information from Wikidata when deleted from English Wikipedia
  • Tagishsimon wrote "Worth noting that if you make very poor decisions when 'correcting' data, as you did here when you presumed that the DoB and DoD were transposed (in fact the problem was an erroneous DoB by 1 century), then you just make things worse." He found one error in the 1K records that I corrected.
  • Billinghurst deletes entries at WikiSource and leaves rude messages

Disambiguate familiesEdit

  • Smith family
  • Smith banking family
  • John Smith (1800-1900) family
  • Smith family of New Jersey

Add photo from FlickrEdit

SELECT ?item ?itemLabel ?url
WHERE 
{
  ?item wdt:P973 ?url.
  optional {?item wdt:P18 ?image .}
  filter(bound(?image)=false)
  filter(contains(str(?url),"https://www.flickr.com/"))      
  SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}
Try it!

Nakhon Pa Mak, Phitsanulok, ThailandEdit

https://www.google.com/maps/@16.618615,100.3489366,3a,75y,295.31h,75.98t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sd23iyPKgTLSnaAefffHqcw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en

Candidate for elected officeEdit

Is there a standard way we show someone was a candidate for an elected office without creating, say, 50 "candidate for Governor of state X" entries? If we created the categories would it also list the winner of the election or just the losers? --RAN (talk) 20:54, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

The usual way seems to be to create one item per election (often created anyway for Wikipedia), then each person can be listed with candidate (P726). E.g., 2012 South Korean presidential election (Q82241) Ghouston (talk) 04:15, 2 March 2019 (UTC)
There's also the inverse approach, using candidacy in election (P3602) on the person, pointing at the election item. --Oravrattas (talk) 08:26, 2 March 2019 (UTC)

Death at seaEdit

Did we ever finalize a way to mark a death-at-sea? We were looking for a way to harmonize all the deaths at sea and which ones had the bodies recovered and which ones did not. We created death at sea (Q46998267) but did not agree on how best to utilize it, so it was never populated beyond a few demo records ... did it progress any since I left the conversation? We have a category for deaths at sea in English Wikipedia ... but how best to mark them here so we can get a comprehensive count and a comprehensive list. --RAN (talk) 23:58, 5 February 2019 (UTC)

The problem with death at sea (Q46998267) is that it's an event, not a location, so it's inconsistent to use it as a value of place of death (P20). However, at sea (Q55438959) can be used instead, so it seems to me that death at sea (Q46998267) can be deleted. It won't be possible to make a comprehensive count without also considering more specific values like North Atlantic Ocean (Q350134) which are used as a death locations, e.g., for Thomas Andrews (Q275937). Ghouston (talk) 03:27, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
As a way to harmonize, what about populating "manner of death" with death at sea (Q46998267) or at sea (Q55438959) in addition to accident?
I don't think that would be the way "manner of death" is supposed to be used. It would be like having "death on a train" or "death in Germany" as values. Ghouston (talk) 23:34, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
If the desire is just to make it easy to find all the deaths at sea, it's really no different to wanting to find all deaths in any other geographical area, like Germany. You can only do it by traversing the hierarchy of locations. That would mean ideally fitting "at sea" into the same hierarchy as "North Atlantic Ocean" or "Tasman Sea". Ghouston (talk) 23:37, 6 February 2019 (UTC)

E-mailEdit

mailto:xxx@xxx.xxx

Close dicussionEdit

  • {{Section resolved|1=[[User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )|RAN]]}}

Recyclable FAG entriesEdit

Funeral homesEdit

Mack Memorial Home, Central Avenue and Hutton Street, Jersey City aka Otto Mack Funeral Home

ToolsEdit

NorwayEdit

Property proposalsEdit

Subclass ofEdit

Second-order metaclass (Q24017465) for mayors of X County in New Jersey

Wikidata dynamic listsEdit

Ban on synthetic fieldsEdit

Currently we ban the creation of a field containing a url if it can be synthesized from information from another field. It would be much better if Wikidata had a field called "Worldcat url" and "CIA World Fact Book url". For instance "Worldcat url" should be synthesized automatically from the LCCN_ID into a clickable url stored directly in Wikidata. We only get a link to Worldcat if that person has an entry in Wikipedia where it is synthesized on the fly from Wikidata. Some people use Wikidata directly as a source of information.

Copyright start dateEdit

Would there be any interest in having the date that copyright status begins as a field for newspapers and magazines. Currently you have to search here for the publication and it tells you the start date for copyrights (as best can be discerned to date). That information could be pulled into WikiCommons and WikiSource by a template with standardized wording. See for example: here for a hand-written example for the Asbury Park Press which did not file for renewal and The Jersey Jornal which did. Some publications had a more extensive copyright clearance search performed and gaps in renewals were found for individual issues, see Time magazine as an example. We would not be able to have a single date for Time magazine. --RAN (talk) 19:28, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

The template reading the Wikidata date would add this statement to the category for the articles in Commons and in Source:--RAN (talk) 02:46, 19 February 2018 (UTC)

Articles published in the Jersey Journal are in the public domain prior to February 9, 1929. All articles starting on that date are currently under active copyright.

New SubclassesEdit

  • city halls of Bergen County, New Jersey
  • city halls of Hudson County, New Jersey
  • Category:City halls in New Jersey

Things to automateEdit

Participants in the w:1915 Indianapolis 500 added to Property:P1344

Authorities that use WikidataEdit

FindagraveEdit

Since English Wikipedia is removing links to Findagrave and the people removing the links refuse to migrate the data to Wikidata before deletion ... I wonder if we have a bot that finds the most probable matches and just needs a human eye to confirm or deny? Both Ancestry.com and Familysearch have this function. We migrated over the Findagrave ID if it used a standard template in external links in Wikipedia but most articles did not use that template. Most articles used it as a reference for the place of burial, and those are the ones being deleted now. --RAN (talk) 18:21, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

That looks like it only ran for flagged "famous" people, mostly actors. I add politicians, and they are almost never famous at Findagrave and I have to search for them manually. Can the bot be adjusted, I would love to have that as a project. --RAN (talk) 05:51, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

CandidatesEdit

Locational dopplegangersEdit

  • Princeton (Q138518)
  • Chatham
  • Andover Borough / Township, Berlin Borough / Township, Boonton Town / Township, Bordentown City / Township, Burlington City / Township, Chatham Borough / Township, Chester Borough / Township , Clinton Town / Township, Egg Harbor City / Township, Freehold Borough / Township, Gloucester City / Township, Hopewell Borough / Township, Lebanon Borough / Township, Mendham Borough / Township --- Audubon / Audubon Park, Barnegat Light / Barnegat Township, Englewood / Englewood Cliffs, Haddon Township / Haddonfield. Haddon Heights, the Cape Mays and Wildwoods.
  • There are also counties that are also cities like Baltimore and Los Angeles. This can be confusing.

Lost at sea or died at seaEdit

To cluster people who were lost at sea in an airplane or boat. To cluster people who died aboard an airplane or boat but the body was recovered. lost at sea (Q99255530) death at sea (Q46998267)

People with topographical namesEdit

Wikidata specific itemsEdit

Where to add proposalsEdit

Proposals yet to be madeEdit

DoneEdit

http://objekte.jmberlin.de/person/jmb-pers-541577 Jewish Museum Berlin person ID

Proposals completedEdit

VIAF duplicatesEdit

Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P214

I’ve had good results sending corrections to VIAF using the “send us a comment” link on the bottom of their page. I included the VIAF and wikidata IDs and an external reference for the particular problem, and they fixed it in about a week. - PKM (talk) 20:33, 10 December 2019 (UTC)

Proposed projectsEdit

Wikicalendar, a new wiki project so that full dates in articles can link to information on that day. A cursor hover will show the full date, day of the week, and how many years and days ago the event took place. A click on the link will bring you to a list of events that occurred on that day. People who were born and who died. Wikipedia pages that contain this information on specific dates can be migrated. Wikipedia pages can choose to just have the cursor hover for information on that date or a full link to Wikicalender.

AutolistEdit

Spanish namesEdit

MoviesEdit

Find date of birthEdit

  • tinyurl.com/o26zc83

NoticeboardEdit

ProjectsEdit

Extra permissionsEdit

Chat for questionsEdit

Purge cacheEdit

Property listsEdit

ToolsEdit

1918 flu pandemic deathsEdit

Interesting peopleEdit


Key: ^ = Wikipedia article, § = Commons category or gallery but no Wikipedia entry, * = needs a commons category created and a public domain document uploaded, 1 = degree of separation from a Wikipedia or Commons entry, ¶ = genealogics entry

More interesting peopleEdit

OthersEdit

Reference booksEdit

CemeteriesEdit

English WikipediaEdit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive299#Richard_Arthur_Norton

ChurchesEdit

Test versionEdit

ReportsEdit

Dolly ZoomEdit

Typos in authority filesEdit

Implausible death datesEdit

Events in my lifeEdit

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