David Eppstein
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Please don't remove referenced statements
editAs I explained at Talk:Q95171033, please don't remove referenced statements if you think they are wrong. Please deprecate them instead or they will be readded in future. Now again at [1] . Benefits of this approach are listed at Help:Ranking#Deprecated_rank. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 06:05, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
- Vojtěch Dostál: Wikidata is a morass of bad and badly sourced data. Your approach, of automatically steamrollering over hand-curated improvements in order to spread the badness from bad data elsewhere as widely as possible, is a big part of the reason why. For the most part, I avoid Wikidata as much as possible and have participated in arguments for using as little Wikidata content in Wikipedia text as possible. Thank you for providing such clear evidence of why this is the correct course of action. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:08, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
- Deprecation instead of removal is common practice around here. If you think it should change, please discuss it at Project chat. However, the linked page gives good arguments why we should deprecate instead of removing statements. In addition to this, your notion that deprecated data will show up in Wikipedia is just wrong. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 06:13, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
- It will not show up in the English Wikipedia because the consensus is not to use any data from Wikidata in Wikipedia content because the data quality and sourcing standards of Wikidata are so abysmal. Asking me to go through complicated rigamarole to individually flag tiny pieces of mass-imported badness is asking me to waste my time. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:17, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
- Deprecation instead of removal is common practice around here. If you think it should change, please discuss it at Project chat. However, the linked page gives good arguments why we should deprecate instead of removing statements. In addition to this, your notion that deprecated data will show up in Wikipedia is just wrong. Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 06:13, 27 October 2021 (UTC)