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Introduction to types of North American TV service

Hi. Some of the items you have marked as television station (Q1616075) are actually television network (Q1254874) or cable channel (Q5009242). This is possibly a quirk of North America (and maybe Australia). In North America, each of what we'd call a television station (Q1616075) is a (theoretically) local station: Most affiliate with a television network (Q1254874), which provides much of the day's programming; the rest of the day is filled with local news or programs independently acquired (broadcast syndication). I think Australia is similar. Examples of television network (Q1254874):

• NBC (Q13974)
• CBS (Q43380)
• Fox Broadcasting Company (Q166419) (the "fourth network" carried by over-the-air local stations since the 1980s)
• American Broadcasting Company (Q169889)
• CW (Q212252)
• PBS (Q215616) (the main public television network, which operates more like a federation than a centrally-owned network, but is close enough for our purposes)
• The Nashville Network (Q7753111) (a small network service intended to be carried by the new digital channels of existing TV stations)

Examples of real television station (Q1616075) (which maybe should have a new "over-the-air television station" item or marked as terrestrial television (Q175122)):

• WGN-TV (Q426594): traditionally Independent station (Q3497443); now an affiliate of CW (Q212252)
• WABC-TV (Q2699014): owned directly by a parent company of American Broadcasting Company (Q169889)
• WMAQ-TV (Q3564723): owned directly by a parent company of NBC (Q13974)
• WFAA (Q3044445): American Broadcasting Company (Q169889) affiliate owned by Gannett (Q1345971)
• WPCH-TV (Q3564767): Independent station (Q3497443) (no network affiliation)
• KCAL-TV (Q6326535): unusual circumstance of an Independent station (Q3497443) owned by the parent company of CBS (Q43380), because its sister station KCBS-TV (Q3191342) is the CBS (Q43380) station for that city instead

Then there is cable channel (Q5009242): These channels are sometimes called a "cable network" or "cable station" but they are channels directly fed to cable TV and satellite, not to any (antenna) broadcast television station (Q1616075). Examples:

• MTV (Q43359)
• CNN (Q48340)
• Fox News (Q186068)
• FX (Q651228)
• CNN International (Q1282786)
• BBC America (Q2876747) (only available on cable and satellite, not over the air like British BBC channels)
• The Nashville Network (Q16238046)

I hope this helps. --Closeapple (talk) 15:45, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Q3820119

Regarding this edit, see it:Discussione:L'usignolo dell'Imperatore and this. Gabbe (talk) 13:36, 30 August 2014 (UTC)

Q2257416

Please see the history of Noize Suppressor (Q2257416), there seems to be something wrong. Probably wrong categorisation, but I need to know which Wikipedia first. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 09:03, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

I imported from the german Wikipedia. I changed it in the Wikipedia, so the Problem should not happen again. Sorry für your inconvenience.

--McSearch (talk) 17:59, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 18:40, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

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Don Pío

About this change: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q11917670&diff=615706338&oldid=614874512 The Given name is Manuel, Don Pío was the artistic name Pacopac (talk) 18:21, 2 January 2018 (UTC)

You are right, i changed it --McSearch (talk) 10:27, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

Q3277997

Hi, it is more appropriate to add cooperative bank (Q3277997) as industry (P452) rather than instance of (P31).--Jklamo (talk) 17:09, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

I don't think thats right. In Germany it is a cooperative bank (Q3277997), that's not the industry (P452). They do banking for everybody, not only for the people, they are owned by. Sorry i can't explain better in english. --McSearch (talk) 17:17, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

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q4830453 removing

Please do not remove business (Q4830453) from bank company items. Also bank (Q22687) belongs more likely to industry (P452) than to instance of (P31).--Jklamo (talk) 19:01, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I don't think you are right, banks are subclasses of business (Q4830453), so it is right, because it's just more detailed. more than 90 percent of banks have not also business (Q4830453). Sorry for my bad English. --McSearch (talk) 19:05, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Errors

Hi,
Thanks to have corrected the wrongs edits about main subject (P921) on human (Q5). I didn't know that some articles on enwiki are about books AND their author. I have try to clean this with PetScan or Wikidata Query, but I hit the timelimit wall. Do you have another strategy to list the items concerned ?

SELECT ?item WHERE {?item wdt:P31 wd:Q5 ; wdt:P921 [] .}
LIMIT 10000

Try it!

. Simon Villeneuve (talk) 10:50, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

You can just look at this: Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P921#"Conflicts_with_ist_ein(e)_(P31)"_violations Greetings--McSearch (talk) 11:06, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

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Bedřich Hájek

Hi McSearch, I am confused by this change. Can You explain it? What is Your source? --Daniel Baránek (talk) 17:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Hello aniel, i was thinking it was just wrong imported, because on Transport Q104055175 was only one prisoner, so it couldn't be person number 25. But now i saw the source is alo like that. I change it back until i find the original transport lists. --McSearch (talk) 18:03, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

Thanks. Ez transports were special transports and the numbers were not counted within the particular transport. I don't know exactly, how the numbers were determined, however, the numbers were quite often higher than number of people in a transport. By the way, thanks for adding external ID to transports. --Daniel Baránek (talk)

P547 for Q26703203

I just saw a lot of new P547 for Q26703203 [1] – something I've been adding a lot in the last weeks with queries like

#by CamelCaseNick
select ?stolperstein ?name ?person
with {
  select distinct ?stolperstein ?name ?yr_of_birth {
    ?stolperstein wdt:P31 wd:Q26703203; wdt:P131+ wd:Q1055; wdt:P1684 ?inscription.
    minus { ?stolperstein wdt:P547/wdt:P31 wd:Q5. }
    optional { ?stolperstein p:P547 ?c. ?c pq:P1932 ?statedAs. optional { ?c rdfs:label ?cLabel. filter(lang(?label) = "de") } }
    optional { ?stolperstein rdfs:label ?label. filter(lang(?label) = "de") }
    bind(replace(coalesce(?statedAs, ?cLabel, replace(?label, "^Stolperstein für (?!den|die|das)", "")), "^(Dr|Prof)\\. ?|geb\\. .*$|‚.+‘ ", "") as ?name)
    bind("(?:[^a]|a)*(?: |/)(?:Jg|Jahrg|geboren|NATO|născută?|nascut|nat|ur|geb|nar|rođena|s|lětnik|n[ée]e?|dz|fødselsår|født|născuta|née? (?:le|en))(?:\\.|,|\\:)? ?(?:\\d{1,2}[\\./](?:\\d{1,2}[\\./]| \\p{L}+\\.? ))?(\\d{4})(?:[^a]|a)*" as ?regex)
    filter(regex(?inscription, ?regex, "i"))
    bind(xsd:integer(replace(?inscription, ?regex, "$1", "i")) as ?yr_of_birth)
  }
} as %stolpersteine
with {
  select distinct ?person (strlang(concat("", ?n), "de") as ?name) (year(?date_of_birth) as ?yr_of_birth) {
    ?person wdt:P31 wd:Q5.
    { ?person wdt:P31|wdt:P2868 ?c. values ?c { wd:Q5883980 wd:Q2026714 wd:Q12409870 } } union { ?person wdt:P4130|wdt:P7624|wdt:P7571|wdt:P8821

Try it!

. Thank You for those! It looks like you have added them automatically (?), instead of – as I did – manually. How did you? I was not sure how to check afterwards systematically for mistakes like mismatching maiden names and dates of deportation to prevent having P547 for people with similar fates. (When those are not in the description, but can be found in external sources.) Do you? --CamelCaseNick (talk) 17:47, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

Hallo CamelCaseNick, ich habe das halbautomatisch gemacht. Ich habe aus der Inschrift der Steine das Geburtsdatum extrahiert und alle Personen genommen, die laut Inschrift in Theresienstadt inhaftiert waren. Dagegen habe ich die Personen gelegt, die auf einem Holocaust-Transport nach Theresienstadt waren. Das habe ich gegenüber gelegt und diese zugeordnet. Der Großteil dieser Personen sind neu in Wikidata und wurden aus holocaust.cz importiert. Viele Grüße --McSearch (talk) 18:12, 18 February 2021 (UTC)

Transports Vienna → Theresienstadt

Hi McSearch, I would like ask, what is the source of Q76359551, Transport from Linz,Upper Austria,Austria to Theresienstadt,Ghetto,Czechoslovakia on 15/09/1943 (Q76359556), Q76358126, Q76359559, Q76359564. I don't know about any transports from Vienna to Theresienstadt in these days. Maybe Q76359551 = Q104055418 and so on?--Daniel Baránek (talk) 12:22, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Hi Daniel, possible it's the same transport, the source was https://www.bundesarchiv.de/gedenkbuch/chronology/viewGermanReich.xhtml --McSearch (talk) 13:02, 21 October 2021 (UTC)