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Best regards! Bovlb (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

March 2022

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  Thank you for your work in maintaining Wikidata. I have a small suggestion to improve your future work. If you notice that two items are duplicates, please merge them instead of blanking one of them as you did with the item Q111133624. External sites use Wikidata identifiers, so it is important that we preserve the chain of references. We do this by making one item a redirect for the other. In particular, item ids are intended to be a permanent identifier, so we never reuse them for another concept. See Help:Merge for more information on how to merge items, and consider installing the Merge Gadget. Thanks!  Bovlb (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2022 (UTC) --Bovlb (talk) 19:27, 9 March 2022 (UTC)Reply

May 2022

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  Hello, I'm Bovlb. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Q83666720 because it didn't appear constructive. Feel free to use the sandbox for test edits. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!  Bovlb (talk) 23:40, 2 May 2022 (UTC) --Bovlb (talk) 23:40, 2 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

  Please refrain from making unconstructive edits to Wikidata, as you did at Q1228685. Your edits appear to constitute vandalism and have been reverted or removed. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. Thank you. Bovlb (talk) 00:06, 3 May 2022 (UTC) --Bovlb (talk) 00:06, 3 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

Hi! I've gone over a number of your recent contributions, and I wanted to explain a few things:

  • Items represent a single concept. In particular, no item can be both a business and a person. A business cannot have sex or gender (P21) or country of citizenship (P27).
  • You seem to have a serious misunderstanding of spouse (P26). This property relates two humans who are married. It should not be used to relate people to companies.
  • You seem to have created a number of items that don't clearly indicate their notability.

The Wikidata project only accepts items that meet its notability criteria, and your item may therefore be deleted soon. In brief, items must have an associated Wikipedia article, must be needed for statements on another notable item, or must have both identifiers and serious sources. For the last case, a good indication of notability would be multiple articles about the subject in independent publications like newspapers or magazines. You can add such sources as references to specific claims using reference URL (P854), or as top-level claims using described at URL (P973). Also, this may not apply in this specific case, but you should know that we discourage editors from contributing on topics with which they have a strong personal connection, as this may present a conflict of interest. For a longer version, you might find it useful to read the essay "How to create an item on Wikidata so that it won't get deleted". Cheers, Bovlb (talk) 00:29, 3 May 2022 (UTC)Reply

  Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikidata, you may be blocked. LiberatorG (talk) 17:11, 14 May 2022 (UTC)Reply