User talk:Seav/Archive 1

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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 01:38, 27 June 2015 (UTC)

request for help

Can you please check whether this merge is correct or perhaps it should be undone? Thanks for your help. -- -- -- 22:27, 2 November 2015 (UTC)

The merge is correct. —seav (talk) 02:00, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

Thanks. Should Mga Aklat ng mga Hari be merged into Q4224666 (Books of Kings)? -- -- -- 04:32, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

Yes. These names refer to the same thing. —seav (talk) 18:27, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

OK. Done. Thanks again for your help. -- -- -- 02:35, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

No problem! —seav (talk) 01:21, 8 November 2015 (UTC)

Cebu City

I have removed "Central Visayas" from Cebu City as the administrative unit. I think the correct administrative hierarchy is Cebu City > Province Cebu > Central Visyas. Unfortunately Central Visayas had highest priority. So our infoboxes do not work properly. Our infoboxes automatically climb up the administrative hierarchy on Wikidata recursively to get the province/state/prefecture of any place on the world. The settings in Cebu here on Wikidata destroyed the hierarchy and did a step over the province directly the the region, leaving out the province. But in the Philippines we state the province in the infoboxes, not the region. Now it works fine. See de:voy:Cebu City. Did I cause any problems on other projects? -- DerFussi 11:50, 3 February 2016 (UTC) PS: Or is Cebu City an independent city that does not belong to the same named province? -- DerFussi 12:33, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

@DerFussi:, your PS is correct. Legally, Cebu City is independent of Cebu province (despite Cebu City being the province's capital and many people considering Cebu City as part of the province). Please see w:Cities of the Philippines#Independent cities for the details and the possible confusion. This is why Central Visayas should be the preferred value over Cebu province. —seav (talk) 13:34, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

OK.. Then I will adapt my configuration module... Thanks... Greetings from Cottbus -- DerFussi 13:59, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Advice on batch editing?

Hello, Seav. I am planning to do update population and area properties on some (unfinished) Philippine city and municipality items. But doing so is tedious task. I tried searching for an easier way but it appears the Tools are complex for me to understand. It appears you are familiar with QuickStatements or WiDar, or other Wikidata tools. I could not decipher how to use such complex tools for batch editing the Philippine city/town items (most likely it would be easier if it was possible to do the editing of the same property of several items in one window). Could you please advise? Thanks. Sanglahi86 (talk) 21:35, 11 September 2016 (UTC)