Circeus

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Best regards! --Tobias1984 (talk) 11:50, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Babel

Babel lets you view and edit more than one language on Wikidata. Just add e.g. {{#babel:de-N|en-3|es-1|fr-2|nl-3|it-4|da-0}} to your user page. With the same language codes you can add links to your userpage on Wikipedia e.g. de:User:User123. --Tobias1984 (talk) 11:50, 24 August 2013 (UTC)

Bibliothèque municipale de Saint-Malachie

C'est la bibliothèque (en tant qu'institution) ou le bâtiment qui date de 1917? L'usage de inception (P571) n'est pas du tout clair. D'ailleurs je ne sais pas à qu'elle date la bibliothèque J.-A.-Kirouac a été fondée [1]. --Fralambert (talk) 00:05, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

@Fralambert: Le problème n'a rien a voir avec l'idée que "L'usage de inception (P571) n'est pas du tout clair". Le problème est que la bibliothèque en tant qu'institution et le bâtiment sont deux entités différentes pour Wikidata, et sont censés constituer des items séparés: par ex. Grande Bibliothèque (Q3114903) et Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Q39628). Vu comme ça, il n'y pas la moindre confusion puisque les deux usages de inception (P571) sont supposés se retrouver sur des items différents de toute façon. (Et en effet, cette confusion se retrouve sur beaucoup d'item, par ex Bibliothèque Gabrielle-Roy (Q2901285), quoique dans ce cas-là, l'un ne prédate pas l'autre.) Circeus (talk) 16:12, 28 March 2019 (UTC)

Constrain

Hello. Why I still get allowed qualifiers constraint (Q21510851) when I am using together with (P1706) as a qualifier for qualifies for event (P3085)? [2] Xaris333 (talk) 17:55, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

@xaris333: I do not know how the constraint checking system functions, so I really wouldn't be able to tell you. maybe Wikidata:WikiProject property constraints can, but I have no idea if there's any activity over there at all. Circeus (talk) 20:08, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

VIAF deprecated rank

The problem with deprecating a VIAF value is that VIAF periodically merges duplicates. When this happens, we have bots that update the links, and we could end up with the only remaining value being the deprecated one. We cannot predict which VIAF value will become the primary one, and sometimes VIAF will merge two items and create an entirely new value instead of using either of the previous ones. --EncycloPetey (talk) 14:57, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

@EncycloPetey: Maybe, but right now, that particular value is clearly not the main one. Circeus (talk) 18:24, 30 July 2019 (UTC)