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Best regards! --Hjart (talk) 18:17, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Please note that Amiko and Blexen is the same physical ship. Amiko (Q83600892) is supposed to represent the physical ship which is also known by the identifier IMO 9125669.--Hjart (talk) 18:17, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello Hjart:

I make images of ships and am knowledgeable about them. Here is how ships are set up in Commons. I am still learning about Wikidata:WikiProject Ships.

The unique IMO hull number is assigned to almost all ships over 20 feet (under 20 feet, it's a boat). For the odd case when an IMO number is not assigned such as a European inland dry carrier, a less comprehensive but still useable ENI or MMSI number will serve. A ship can have different names, owners and color schemes but has only one name at a time.

In Commons, a parent IMO category (or ENI or MMSI as alternatives if IMO not assigned) is created with a sub-category for each ship name. In the case of Amiko and Blexen, there would be a sub-category in each name (form: Category:Name of ship (ship, year built); example: example Category:Amiko (ship, 1996)) for all images (can be several) of that ship with that name under a parent IMO category number (form: Category:IMO ######; example Category:IMO 9125669). While all data and images for the ship used to be manually entered one-by-one, the practice now is to put ship physical data and a representative image in WikiData and use it from there for the infoboxes in Commons.

The Commons IMO category has an infobox from Wikidata which lists the physical characteristics of the ship. Each Commons ship-by-name category has an infobox that comes from Wikidata with an image of the ship with only that name along the physcal characteristics. All of this makes sense and works in keeping with current and past practice in Commons.

At this point, I am going to stop and ask you how Wikidata is structured to match the database information needs of Commons? I thought I knew but you merged Blexen and Amiko images under a single Amiko (Q83600892) Wikidata item. There are Wikidata items for the IMO #, the ships-by-name categories and a third layer - ships-by-name. How do they work together? I am thinking of your last communication.

"Please note that Category:Amiko (ship, 1996) (Q83945913) is a category item, which is basically just meant to hold Commons images of the ship while under the name "Amiko". It's not meant to represent the ship itself. "

Any thoughts would be appreciated. If you can cite Wikidata:WikiProject Ships, I will read it.

Best,

Gordon GRDN711 (talk) 00:46, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

Please discuss issues at WikiProject Ships. Hjart (talk) 17:37, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

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Regards Kholoudsaa (talk) 19:10, 17 February 2023 (UTC)