Topp

Q60832387

You seem to have conflated two people at Q60832387. No-one who died in 1998 can have a ORCID iD (P496). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:15, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

Did you see this? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:26, 8 October 2019 (UTC)

Please see Wikidata:Administrators' noticeboard#User:Topp. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:03, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment. This is the same person. Why can not a single person who died in 1998 have an ORCID? Topp (talk) 07:07, 31 October 2019 (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 Q107265547. 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) 23:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC) --Bovlb (talk) 23:27, 16 June 2021 (UTC)