Olaf Kosinsky

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Welcome to Wikidata, Olaf Kosinsky!

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Best regards! --Tobias1984 (talk) 09:36, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

Simple English

"simple" isn't valid language code (although it's possible to insert it). Please disable your QuickStatements batches. Matěj Suchánek (talk) 12:34, 4 May 2019 (UTC)

Languages spoken, written, or signed

Please stop using quick statements through WiDar to add English as a person's languages spoken, written or signed (P1412), just because they have an article on the English Wikipedia. You have done this for multiple French Canadians whose documented language was French. Some of these edits I reverted, and now you are repeating to make them over again. Thank you. — Dcflyer (talk) 09:45, 7 June 2019 (UTC)

Wrong label in Q43379706

Hi Olaf, you've added Kevin Kühnert as a Danish label to Q43379706 with a bot. I changed that back, I was just wondering where it got that information. Probably based on vandalism in some article? (Totally unrelated: Thanks for all your pictures.)--176.198.185.170 13:10, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

In QuickStatements batch 12145 each item had a label added that was intended for the next item in the list. I have corrected a few but it looks like more than 2,000 items have had the wrong labels added. Peter James (talk) 13:48, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Please merge instead of blanking

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 page Q55338828. External sites use Wikidata identifiers, so it is important that we preserve the chain of references. See Help:Merge for more information on how to do this, and consider installing the Merge Gadget. Thanks! Bovlb (talk) 21:53, 27 February 2020 (UTC)

Please merge instead of blanking

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 page Q95189318. 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) 20:08, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Bovlb. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Q55845871 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) 20:52, 27 June 2020 (UTC) --Bovlb (talk) 20:52, 27 June 2020 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your advice. I have created a new article and then didn't think that there is already an entry at Wikidata.--Olaf Kosinsky (talk) 08:20, 28 June 2020 (UTC)

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 Q94897744. 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) 15:02, 4 May 2021 (UTC) --Bovlb (talk) 15:02, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

Bezahlte Beiträge

Hallo Olaf, hast du in Wikidata bezahlte Beiträge vorgenommen und wie hast du diese offengelegt. Nachdem es in Wikidata keine eigenständige mir bekannte Regel gibt gelten meinen Verständnis nach die Terms of Use der Wikimedia Foundation und nach denen muss man offenlegen, wenn man bezahlte Edits vornimmt. Du hast viel in den Wikimediaprojekten beigetragen und gerade gibt es Aufregung um dein Verhalten um bezahltes Bearbeiten von Wikipediaartikel. Meiner Meinung nach ist es wichtig, dass man sich an geltende Regeln hält und dein Verhalten hat dem Ansehen der Wikimediaprojekte geschadet. Bitte teile mit, ob du hier in Wikidata bezahlte Beiträge getätigt hast. --Hogü-456 (talk) 13:51, 5 September 2021 (UTC)