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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 23:46, 18 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Merging edit

Hallo Bender235,
When you merge items, you may want to use the merge.js gadget from help page about merging. It helps with merging, nominating, gives the option to always keep the lower number (which is older, so preferable in most cases) and makes it a lot easier for the admins to process the requests.
With regards,- cycŋ - (talkcontribslogs) 06:38, 22 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Alright, thanks. --Bender235 (talk) 12:47, 22 July 2016 (UTC)Reply

Call for participation in a task-based online experiment edit

Dear Bender235,

I hope you are doing good,

I am Kholoud, a researcher at King's College London, and I work on a project as part of my PhD research, in which I have developed a personalised recommender system that suggests Wikidata items for the editors based on their past edits. I am collaborating on this project with Elena Simperl and Miaojing Shi.

I am inviting you to a task-based study that will ask you to provide your judgments about the relevance of the items suggested by our system based on your previous edits. Participation is completely voluntary, and your cooperation will enable us to evaluate the accuracy of the recommender system in suggesting relevant items to you. We will analyse the results anonymised, and they will be published to a research venue.

The study will start in late January 2022 or early February 2022, and it should take no more than 30 minutes.

If you agree to participate in this study, please either contact me at kholoud.alghamdi@kcl.ac.uk or use this form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSees9WzFXR0Vl3mHLkZCaByeFHRrBy51kBca53euq9nt3XWog/viewform?usp=sf_link I will contact you with the link to start the study.

For more information about the study, please read this post: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Kholoudsaa In case you have further questions or require more information, don't hesitate to contact me through my mentioned email.

Thank you for considering taking part in this research.

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Kholoudsaa (talk) 19:01, 3 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

MGP-ID → GND edit

Hi Bender, thanks for looking up persons with a MGP-ID in the catalog of the German National Library. Everyone who received his highest academic degree in Germany should have a GND. Sometimes the GND is still missing. In these cases you can use DNB edition ID (P1292). Example: Q102799702#P227. The missing GNDs are collected in the list Property talk:P227/human/wanted/no value/DNB edition and will be created later. --Kolja21 (talk) 01:45, 16 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Created later by whom? --Bender235 (talk) 02:20, 16 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
By the German National Library (de:WP:GND/F) and volunteer librarians like me. --Kolja21 (talk) 02:26, 16 June 2023 (UTC)Reply
Oh, cool. I wasn't aware GND feeds off of Wikidata, too. Thought this was going one way only. Great to hear! --Bender235 (talk) 02:34, 16 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

John C. Fyfe edit

Hi there! We have an item John C. Fyfe (Q97684681) which was created for a microbiologist with an ORCID id. You matched it to a John Curtis Fyfe in the maths genealogy dataset, who did a PhD on geophysics. I'm not sure it's a good match. Just a heads up that I'm reverting your match. Dsp13 (talk) 15:54, 6 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

I've created John C. Fyfe (Q120406465) for the geophysicist. Dsp13 (talk) 16:06, 6 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
Thanks for catching that! --Bender235 (talk) 16:10, 6 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Laura Gunn edit

Hi Bender,

The former writes about transgender, the latter about Rubisco. May you please check whether Q102279429 = Q87621572 ? U. M. Owen (talk) 13:06, 30 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

They're two different people: Laura H Gunn (Q92463311) is this, while Laura H Gunn (Q87621572) is this. --Bender235 (talk) 14:16, 30 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
Yes, indeed. I think that these are incorrect.--U. M. Owen (talk) 14:19, 30 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
I'll look into this. --Bender235 (talk) 14:27, 30 July 2023 (UTC)Reply
I checked most of them, and they all were connected to the "correct" Laura H Dunn of the two. What do you mean by incorrect? --Bender235 (talk) 21:12, 30 July 2023 (UTC)Reply

Perfect, nothing seems to be incorrect. Thanks for your confirmation!--U. M. Owen (talk) 21:28, 30 July 2023 (UTC)Reply