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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 02:42, 23 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

Calendar model edit edit

Please note Talk:Q307.
--- Jura 15:34, 17 January 2016 (UTC)Reply

re edit

  1. constraints are automatically displayed in the talk pages. I'm going to add SPARQL queries if possible.
  2. see [1].

--GZWDer (talk) 16:40, 13 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Thanks. The constraint doesn't seem to be working right now. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:04, 13 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Please correct edit

The entities you created using instance of = political candidate (like that one). Instance of is not used like that. If all, they should be instance of human being, and you should use occupation, and other properties.--Zeroth (talk) 14:58, 9 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Done. Jc3s5h (talk) 18:42, 9 December 2018 (UTC)Reply

Celestial coordinates of Andromeda (Q2469) edit

Hi,

Could you elaborate why you removed the celestial coordinates of Andromeda (Q2469)? (this removal Special:Diff/867297467). True the representation format was not ideal but the data itself seems correct to me.

Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 10:39, 27 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

The coordinate SYSTEM is as much a part of the coordinates as the numbers. The property coordinate location (P625) is always, according to the property description, {{w:World Geodetic System|WGS84}}. The value, 10°41'5.255"N, 41°16'8.634"E, is in Ethiopia, not the Andromeda Galaxy. Jc3s5h (talk) 17:25, 27 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Did you see that I explicity specified that the coordinates was on celestial sphere (Q12134) and not on Earth (Q2)? (look at the diff!) And no, the coordinates on Wikidata are not always on WGS84, this is false. The description of coordinate location (P625) is wrong, this property is already used 7033 times on globes that are not Earth.
I do believe that this statement was correct and I see no reason why you removed it.
Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 18:17, 27 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
I reject the notion that you can redefine a property by adding stuff. Every pair of coordinates using this property that isn't WGS84 is false and should be deleted. Jc3s5h (talk) 12:47, 28 February 2019 (UTC)Reply
I'm not redefining this property, it is how it is used for years but a lot of different people. But ok, I will start a discussion on the talk page of the porperty to make it clear. Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 14:06, 28 February 2019 (UTC)Reply

Reverting my change edit

Hi Jc3s5h, you just reverted my change to proleptic Julian calendar (Q1985786), but I made it because in proleptic Gregorian calendar (Q1985727), there is a statement saying it's the opposite of proleptic Julian calendar (Q1985786). So either we put back my change, or we remove the opposite in the other element… --Antoine2711 (talk) 04:02, 23 April 2019 (UTC)Reply

The proleptic Gregorian calendar is not the opposite of the proleptic Julian calendar, and the proleptic Julian calendar is not the opposite of the proleptic Gregorian calendar. This is because, if one wanted to designate a certain day but did not wish to use, for example, the proleptic Gregorian calendar, one would have several choices, such as the Julian day (Q14267), the Roman calendar (Q200966), Egyptian calendar (Q254101), etc. Also, the two calendars are not opposed to each other, in the sense that good is the opposite of evil, operational is the opposite of broken, etc. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:42, 23 April 2019 (UTC)Reply
So, I went, and I remove the opposite of (P461) from proleptic Gregorian calendar (Q1985727), like you said. Let see if someone revert that! Regards, --Antoine2711 (talk) 18:25, 6 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

Johann Sebastian Bach (Q1339) edit

Hi Jc3s5h! you reverted Q1339|oldid=prev&diff=993923959}! It was added with the Authority Control tool. Regards
no bias — קיין אומוויסנדיקע פּרעפֿערענצן — keyn umvisndike preferentsn talk contribs 00:33, 9 August 2019 (UTC)Reply

See talk page edit

See Talk:Q1#Creator_property.

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deleting referenced statements from Wikidata edit

Hi Jc3s5h

Please do not delete referenced statement from Wikidata as you did at [2] and [3], despite the request on Talk:Q692 not to do that.

Deprecated statements are valid parts of information on Wikidata. If you think a referenced statement on Wikidata is incorrect, please use ranks.

If you persist, I will ask on WD:AN to stop this. --- Jura 00:06, 21 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Due to the rapid fire changes, it appeared to me you were re-adding the assertion that ARCHIVIO STORICO COLLEZIONE DIGITALE purports that William Shakespeare was born on April 26, 1564, Gregorian calendar, when in fact the source does not provide any obvious indication which calendar was used. This was the assertion I intended to revert, because it is not a referenced statement, it is a statement that does not necessarily agree with what the source intended to convey.
Upon closer examination I see that at some point you changed the calendar to Julian, which probably agrees with what the source intended to convey.
I don't accept the notion that we shovel every error into the Wikidata database and mark the bad ones depricated. What makes this source, about an ENGLISH playwright written in ITALIAN, an excellent example of the sloppy presumption that a baptismal date is the same as a birth date? Why is this the example of this error that belongs in the item? Jc3s5h (talk) 00:25, 21 December 2021 (UTC)Reply
As long as the statement has deprecated rank, I think it's correctly assessed. If you disagree with the use of deprecated ranks on Wikidata, you can open a discussion about Help:Ranking.
Help:Sources explains which can be included in Wikidata.
It's not rare that dates of baptisms in this period of time are mistaken for dates of birth. We don't want contributors and researchers to repeat this error or find a mismatch merely because someone deleted its assessment from Wikidata. --- Jura 00:42, 21 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

Q3369664 edit

Hello, I'm glad to see that it's not defuncted yet, but I was misled by en.wiki, which catalogs it under Category:Defunct public bodies of the United Kingdom. Maybe someone should fix there too, then. -- Blackcat   20:34, 23 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

I removed it from the category, since the 2009 edit that added the category did not offer any justification. Jc3s5h (talk) 21:20, 23 November 2022 (UTC)Reply

Full name edit

What is it called then when all legal names are included? Is there no term for that? StarTrekker (talk) 16:02, 14 April 2023 (UTC)Reply

Legal names are hard to talk about. It depends on what country you're talking about. For the US, Baker and Green wrote an article in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 'There Is No Such Thing as a "Legal Name."' At least in the US, there is no single law or government that tells us what the rules are for names. The Social Security Administration has their rules, the Department of Homeland Security" has theirs, the California Department of Motor Vehicles has theirs, the Connecticut Department of Health has theirs. If you put all the possible names recognized for a single person potentially recognized for a single person by all the authorities in the world, the "full name" could fill a page. Jc3s5h (talk) 23:43, 16 April 2023 (UTC)Reply