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Nomen ad hoc (talk) 14:18, 10 July 2020 (UTC).Reply

Reverts edit

Hi Hilarixx, thank you for your contributions to cloisters. Sadly I had to revert some edits: St. Pantaleon's Church (Q565187) and Basilica of the Holy Apostles (Q526047) for now. Both items are about the existing church but not the formerly attached cloister. I suggest that you create new items for the cloisters if not already exists. Raymond (talk) 12:46, 14 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Thank you very much, that shouldn't have happend. But often articles are marked as instance of church even when they treat mainly the monastery. --Hilarixx (talk) 14:45, 14 July 2020 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much for your fast answer. Yeah I know, sometimes an article mix church and monastery. A bit tricky. Raymond (talk) 18:47, 14 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

Hi Raymond, you reverted Domstift Köln to Domkapitel Köln and proposed to create a new item for Domstift. I am not sure if this is the best solition or if it is better to add Domstift as an alternative name. Domkapitel/Domstift is not properly differenciated within the Wikipedia/Wikidata-Universe, but sometimes used as synonyms, sometimes not. External identifiers like GND, describing the Domkapitel are linked to Domstift-Items for example. If we remove Domstift here for Köln we would have to remove the identifier for Klosterdatenbank aswell, thereby valuable interlinkings would be lost. Difficult. Interested in your opinion. Cheers Hilarixx (talk) 20:31, 30 September 2020 (UTC)Reply

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Head of a diocese edit

Hello, I stopped and reverted your batch because it's not the right way to model this information. For human, instance of (P31) is almost uniquely used with human (Q5) and never with a title or position. For that you have to use position held (P39). And the "head of a diocese" is a bishop, so please use existing items such as Roman Catholic Bishop of Metz (Q15729481). Regards, Ayack (talk) 14:37, 1 June 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi, thank you for your comment on my batch. I do understand that this is a critical way to model this information. And you are rigth, a bishop is a "head of a diocese", but there are many more titles/"position held"-items, that belong to the class of "head of diocese" (for example patriarch, administrator, vicar-general etc). The reason I created the item "head of a diocese" is, that I am looking for a way to be able to query this group of persons. But maybe this is not possible within Wikidata. Hilarixx (talk) 15:40, 1 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Auxiliary bishops like Q55130995 were never heads of a real diocese, only a fake "titular" one. Kusma (talk) 15:53, 1 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, I added a more precise description Hilarixx (talk) 16:15, 1 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Actually there are several ways to get what you want without using such an item. With SPARQL you can easily (when you know it) query sub-classes. The most difficult here IMHO, would be to define all the positions that are "head of diocese". Ayack (talk) 16:02, 1 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks again, yes I know I can query the sub-classes, but still I would not be able to get all items that are "Head of a diocese of the Holy Roman Empire (Q112193606)". There is too much information that is missing to be able to do that. Until now information on the time periods the individual dioceses belonged to the Holy Roman Empire is not complete. But that information would be needed. - But you convinced me that there is no quick and easy way. Hilarixx (talk) 16:27, 1 June 2022 (UTC)Reply
I reverted a few (newer) edits. In this version, it is already stated that Wigfrid was bischop of Verun (Q22582345). With these edits, you say that he was a bischop (Q29182 of Roman Catholic Diocese of Verdun (Q877817), that means that we have to statements telling about the same. As the first statement also adds begin date, end date, preceding and following bishop, that information is much more complete. François Blouet de Camilly (Q3084001) needed even more repair work, and there are more issues where you added double information. I hope you will not run more batches, but first will make sure that you do not add double information, and if possible, remove all double information you already added. Thanks, RonnieV (talk) 13:23, 3 June 2022 (UTC)Reply