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Charles Matthews (talk) 14:20, 14 June 2017 (UTC)Reply

RfD edit

What are you done in Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions? Why you delete batch of items also if none are deleted? --ValterVB (talk) 18:10, 12 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

Hi ValterVB. I am the one who created them under the ProteinBoxBot account. I thought I had screwed up the page because most of them weren't showing up on the page. But it looks like it just exceeded the max template include size and that is why they weren't showing up. Once the ones that are still there are deleted, I'll repost the others, to avoid overwhelming the page again. Gstupp (talk) 18:13, 12 September 2017 (UTC)Reply

RfD edit

Hey Gstupp, I saw this removal of a section on WD:RfD by you yesterday. What’s the matter with the items in it? Thanks, —MisterSynergy (talk) 06:57, 17 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

MisterSynergy They are the same as the request here Gstupp (talk) 19:23, 17 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. MisterSynergy (talk) 07:21, 18 November 2017 (UTC)Reply

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retinal disease in blindness edit

I have removed "retinal disease" because it is not a subclass of blindness. A retinal disease can cause blindness, just like a "lens disease" (Q18553990, with cataracts) or "corneal disease" (Q18553785). Note that "lens disease", logically, is not included. But "visual impairment" is a subclass of "blindness", since blindness is the maximum degree of visual impairment. Please, remove "retinal disease", is an error. Jmarchn (talk) 05:37, 10 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

@Gstupp: You did not answer me. I have not explained exactly the reasons or you did not understand them. What is the matter?. Jordi March (talk) 20:18, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply
I created an issue on the Disease ontology (the source of this statement) with your explanation. Feel free to add to it. Thanks Gstupp (talk) 20:58, 18 May 2018 (UTC)Reply

exact match (Q39893449) mapping to SKOS property edit

Hi Greg, I've seen you have removed my adding of equivalent property (P1628) http://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/core#exactMatch to exact match (Q39893449). That's ok - I was already looking for a better choise, when I recognized the collision with the existing constraints. What I want to achieve is a mapping from the WD item to the the SKOS property URI, in order to use it during the automated extraction of a SKOS mapping between the WD items and other vocubularies (in my case, STW Thesaurus for Economics (Q26903352)) - which of course did not work any more after you removed the property. Now I've chosen URL (P2699) to keep the information, and hope that should not hurt anywhere. If you disagree, please let us discuss, if there's a better choise. Cheers, Joachim Jneubert (talk) 13:37, 13 August 2018 (UTC) Hi [[User:Jneubert|Jneubert], Yes I removed it because equivalent property (P1628) should be on a property not on an item, and it is already used on exact match (P2888). I see you did the same for the other skos mappings (i.e. broad match (Q39894595), etc.) Looks fine to me! Gstupp (talk) 17:31, 13 August 2018 (UTC)Reply

pmidtool on Toolforge edit

Hi! It looks like the pmidtool Toolforge tool is failing to start its web service. Could you fix it or archive the tool if it's no longer used? Thanks, Taavi (talk) 14:34, 14 February 2023 (UTC)Reply