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Please merge instead of blanking edit
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 Q84004985. 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) 16:33, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
- @Bovlb: Thank you for the heads up about the Merge.js. I just enabled it and will try using it moving forward. TJMSmith (talk) 16:49, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
Name Kutlu edit
Hi. If Kutlu Ö. Ülgen carries a male name, being a female, we have a formula for that. Please see the case of Şerif Sezer. --E4024 (talk) 17:24, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
- Ah, if you know how to search the TDK (official) Turkish Dictionary for proper names (kişi adları) there also you will see that this is classified as a "male" name. (Indeed it is the first time I hear of a female Kutlu, although does not sound strange to my ears.) Regards. --E4024 (talk) 17:37, 13 October 2020 (UTC)
Please be careful about referencing edit
Hello, thanks for improving Susan C. Taylor (Q112449486). There's one little issue though. You have added a more precise date of birth, yet you kept the reference to National authorities which states only a date of birth with year-precision. The reference now wrongly suggests that the day-precision comes from National Authorities. In future, it's best to keep both dates of birth (one with day-precision and one with year-precision) and set the more precise date to Preferred Rank. Thanks! Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 05:44, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
- Thanks for the guidance! I made these changes, although I wasn't sure how to add a preferred rank. TJMSmith (talk) 01:10, 1 August 2023 (UTC)