Maliepa

Welcome to Wikidata, Maliepa!

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Best regards! Matěj Suchánek (talk) 09:09, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

About a date of birth

May I ask you what your source is for Paul E. Funk's date of birth being March 10th 1940? I don't doubt it per se, but I'm working on a project that relates to U. S. military personnel off-site and would like to include this detail as well, preferably with a reference to at least something. --Prospero One (talk) 11:23, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

@Prospero One: If that doesn't sound too intrusive, may I ask the nature of this project? I happen to be working on three-star military personnel lists at the moment, and perhaps information there such as dates of birth I can't find might prove useful for me. SuperWIKI (talk) 15:42, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

I have two references from my local library: (1) Birth Records, 1919-1986, Helena, Montana: Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services and (2) County Marriages, 1865-1950, Helena, Montana: Montana State Historical Society. He married Sheila Ann Brown on 21 July 1961 in Gallatin County, Montana. The place of birth is not consistent, however. The birth records say that he was born in Roundup, Musselshell County and the marriage records say Billings, Yellowstone County. – Maliepa (talk) 12:26, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Also, that's not the first time I've seen discrepancies in place of birth between documents – I guess just "Montana" would be an acceptable level of precision. --Prospero One (talk) 13:24, 17 October 2021 (UTC)

@SuperWIKI: You're not the first Wikipedian to ask this question. His father's middle name is also not consistent between references. One reference gives his middle name as Edward, the other his middle initial as G. – Maliepa (talk) 14:14, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

@SuperWIKI: Find A Grave website has more information on his parents Paul Golberg Funk(1) and LaVerna Christina (Charlton) Funk and paternal grandparents Herman Franz Funk and Selma (Golberg) Funk. – Maliepa (talk) 15:30, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

Noted with thanks. SuperWIKI (talk) 15:39, 9 March 2022 (UTC)

New family names and given names

Hi Maliepa!

It's nice of you to create new names. Please fill out at least these three Properties of information, this saves a lot of work for the other Wikidata contributors:

• For names in Latin script:

1. instance of (P31) (use "family name (Q101352)", "male given name (Q12308941)" or "female given name (Q11879590)")
2. writing system (P282) (use "Latin script (Q8229)")
3. native label (P1705) (use allways "mul" for the language specification; specific language specifications require a reference)

The easiest way would be to use the script from User:Bargioni, see: User:Bargioni/QuickNames

Note: Arabic, Chinese, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Russian names, etc. must be created in their original script. User:Bargioni's tool is not suitable for this.

• For persons of Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian origin etc., and other countries with Cyrillic writing system, create the name in Cyrillic script:

1. instance of (P31) (use "family name (Q101352)", "male given name (Q12308941)" or "female given name (Q11879590)")
2. writing system (P282) (use "Cyrillic script (Q8209)")
3. native label (P1705) (use allways "mul" for the language specification; specific language specifications require a reference)

Note: The transliteration from e.g. Russian (Q7737)/Ukrainian (Q8798)/Serbian (Q9299) etc. to English (Q1860), French (Q150), German (Q188) and various other languages is different.

For more information please see this page: Wikidata:WikiProject Names/Properties.

I wish you continued happy work on Wikidata. Best regards, HarryNº2 (talk) 17:24, 25 August 2022 (UTC)