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Banyuwangi (Q25012543): regency of Indonesia, on island of Java: (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs)
Duplicate with Q11067 Joseagush (talk) 08:34, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Joseagush: Officially I cannot delete these per point 1 of WD:N. What you may wish to do instead for this and the other Wikidata items you have nominated is as follows (and I hope @Lsj: and other Wikidata admins can opine on this as well):
- Visit the GeoNames pages for the two Wikidata items (linked from the GeoNames ID on both Wikidata items). Verify that the two GeoNames items actually do refer to the exact same place down to the same level of administrative division1.
- Open a GeoNames account if you do not have one already. Move any appropriate information from the less accurate2 GeoNames item into the more accurate GeoNames item and delete the less accurate GeoNames item (I don't recall offhand if a merge capability exists there).
- Go to cebwiki and svwiki and replace the entire content of the page corresponding to the less accurate GeoNames item with "#REDIRECT [[{name}]]" (where "{name}" should of course be substituted with the name of the page on that wiki corresponding to the more accurate GeoNames item).
- Delete the sitelinks for the page corresponding to the less accurate GeoNames item on those sitelinks' associated Wikidata item, delete the statement for that Wikidata item's GeoNames ID, and merge that Wikidata item with the more accurate GeoNames item's Wikidata item.
- I was thinking about this while merging Wikidata items for French communes and I also noticed @Exec8: performing full-content replacements recently on cebwiki, so I imagine this would be a good course of action for those people who frequently get ticked at the plethora of cebwiki/svwiki-only geographic Wikidata items. @Abductive, Ahoerstemeier: from a recently archived June discussion, @Jura1, Pigsonthewing, Hsarrazin, Liuxinyu970226, YMS, GZWDer: from a March complaint. (I will most likely ping folks from the two discussions archived here at some point.)
- I say this because I have noticed many conflations of Indian administrative divisions, such as taluka/village or tehsil/census town for example, on other wikis.
- I use 'accurate' instead of 'detailed' here because the French commune GeoNames items imported by INSEE have geoshapes that the GeoNames items imported by World Gazetteer do not.
Mahir256 (talk) 15:24, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
Done Redirect created by Ahoerstemeier, you can do it yourself next time. --DeltaBot (talk) 15:40, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
- Was in fact a wrongly added link which prevented the merge, as the regency originally was linked to the article on the capital city instead of Banyuwangi (Q4857377). The core reason was that in geonames the Wikipedia link was added to the wrong item. Ahoerstemeier (talk) 15:40, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
- @Ahoerstemeier: Thank you for realizing that. Any opinions on the procedure I proposed? Mahir256 (talk) 15:48, 18 June 2018 (UTC)
- Was in fact a wrongly added link which prevented the merge, as the regency originally was linked to the article on the capital city instead of Banyuwangi (Q4857377). The core reason was that in geonames the Wikipedia link was added to the wrong item. Ahoerstemeier (talk) 15:40, 18 June 2018 (UTC)