Feliciss

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-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:02, 16 April 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for your work in maintaining Wikidata. I have a small suggestion to improve your future work. If you notice that two items are duplicates, please merge them instead of blanking one of them as you did with the item Q112979451. External sites use Wikidata identifiers, so it is important that we preserve the chain of references. We do this by making one item a redirect for the other. In particular, item ids are intended to be a permanent identifier, so we never reuse them for another concept. See Help:Merge for more information on how to merge items, and consider installing the Merge Gadget. Thanks!  Bovlb (talk) 14:57, 9 July 2022 (UTC) --Bovlb (talk) 14:57, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi @Bovlb, just seen this. I have installed Merge Gadget in my profile and will merge the duplicated items I created in the future. Sorry for the inconvenience. Feliciss (talk) 14:31, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

Claimless items

[1]--GZWDer (talk) 14:21, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Can you suggest someone to help to stop the bot? Mike Peel is on holiday and I’m not available to stop it atm. Feliciss (talk) 15:12, 5 September 2022 (UTC)

Over-large items

I appreciate what you've been doing with the ADS bot, but in some cases for articles with over 1000 authors these edits have increased the item size to where it is impossible to do any further edits (for example replacing author name strings with P50/author entries). A particular example I just ran across is Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs (Q113625041). Some suggestions to reduce item size - if it's possible for your bot to fix this and similar items it would be nice - (1) redundant references add considerably to item size; just put the reference in once somewhere logical - (2) for long author lists like this where the publisher has replaced all given names with initials, adding the given name and family name qualifiers is not really helpful. ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:09, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Hi Arthur. I appreciate your commend. I do know there're some limits on the storage of Wikidata and thus the Wikibase database. For your mentioned reducing the item's size, I already got a proposed solution from the Wikidata community on Phabricator tasks: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314763, where this comment sounds feasible to reduce the items size where the bot edits: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T314763#8187588, to reduce the edit records the bot is reproducing on Wikidata. So your mentioned solution (1) might be my favorite solution, while implementing (2) would be violating the initial project's perspective - to add author first name and last name to Wikidata. So I will probably look at solution (1) while I'm free to contribute to Wikidata to resolve future edits by the bot to Wikidata but not to fix existing articles because the code is to add articles not to edit existing articles. If you have thoughts on how to fix existing articles, please let me know! Feliciss (talk) 19:03, 17 January 2023 (UTC)