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instance of / part of / subclass of

Hi! https://www.wikidata.org/?diff=119842997&oldid=113455210#top makes no sense. gangLeri לערי ריינהארט (talk) 14:44, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Thank you your hint. What I wanted to express is that a CEO needs business economics to run the company properly. Is there a subtitle property for that?

regards --DavidMar86hdf (talk) 15:21, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

I think one should not overload items. One link from Talk:Q8134 (talk economics (Q8134)) is

http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html?lang=en&q=8134&rp=279&method=d3&live

talk social science (Q34749) has

http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html?lang=en&q=34749&rp=279&method=d3&live

talk medicine: (Q11190) has

http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html?lang=en&q=11190&rp=279&method=d3&live

talk physician (Q39631) has

http://tools.wmflabs.org/wikidata-todo/tree.html?lang=en&q=39631&rp=279&method=d3&live

I added many of the displayed items; I moved them from the imaginary part of Wikidata (WDi) to its real part ;-)

and I made many many errors so far. Regards gangLeri לערי ריינהארט (talk) 13:44, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

P.S. You may add some help tools to user:DavidMar86hdf/common.js . See User:Rotsaert8000 (in Esperanto). Regards gangLeri לערי ריינהארט (talk) 13:46, 13 April 2014 (UTC)

Parenthèses

Bonjour,

J'ai vu que vous ajoutiez des parenthèses d'homonymie aux libellés de nombreuses entités (par exemple ici. Attention, c'est le contraire qu'il faut faire : retirer lesdites parenthèses quand elles sont présentes dans le label (qui ne doit contenir que le nom de l'entité) et utiliser le champ description pour identifier précisément sur quoi elle porte. -Ash Crow (talk) 16:42, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Merci pour vos commentaires!--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 16:47, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Q10868897 and Q706622

Q10868897 (de:Willenserklärung et al.) refers to a specific concept in European civil law and may be translated as "expression of will" or "declaration of intent". It is quite different from Q706622 (en:Intention et al.), which refers a very different concept. Please don't merge them. Thanks. --Neo-Jay (talk) 17:03, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice --DavidMar86hdf (talk) 17:09, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you! --Neo-Jay (talk) 17:11, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

What do you mean with P580

For example [1], what do you mean with start time (P580)? begin date of what? Normally P580 should be used as qualifier to indicate the start date of something defined. For creation date, rather use inception (P571) or service entry (P729). Michiel1972 (talk) 15:25, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for that information. Is there a specific P that the start of existence for Buildings (Churches e. g.)

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 15:35, 20 September 2014 (UTC)

You can use inception (P571) (P571) to indicate the start year of the creation of a building. Michiel1972 (talk) 13:22, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

use quick statements tool

DavidMar86hdf, I want to ask you how do you use this tool to change a claim "Data type Quantity". I wrote:
Q4115189 P1162 100, but it doesn't work. Thanks.--Matlab1985 (talk) 21:17, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Hello,

I do not use the tool you mentioned. (Or I am not aware of it) I am sorry, I can not help

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 21:30, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

Which tool did tou use for this change? Thanks.--Matlab1985 (talk) 21:32, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

I used no tool. I used the web-interface were you access the item (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4115189).

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 21:38, 26 September 2014 (UTC)

quantity subclass of auxiliary unit

Hello. Please see the discussion page for number of entities (Q614112) about removing subclass of auxiliary unit. Thank you. Jefft0 (talk)

medical sign: should change subclass of symptom to subclass of physiological condition

Hello. Please see the discussion page for clinical sign (Q1441305) about removing subclass of symptom and adding subclass of physiological condition. Thank you. Jefft0 (talk) 09:51, 24 October 2014 (UTC)

Duplicates

Hi, thanks for marking duplicated items, but when both items can be merged it is much better than adding "instance of Wikimedia duplicated page (Q17362920)". Q17362920 is only for the case when there are sitelinks to the same Wikipedia in two languages so that we cannot merge items. -15:23, 11 November 2014 (UTC)~

Battista Sforza Battista Sforza (Q810972)

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q810972&diff=145663827&oldid=140520891 Wie ist das passiert?--Oursana (talk) 20:15, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Hallo,

danke für den Hinweis. Wie "das" passieren konnte weiß ich nicht. Wahrscheinlich hab ich mich bei Wikidata - the Game (in der Sektion Berufe) schlicht verklickt. Wenn man das ne Weile macht, dann schleicht sich Routine ein. Man wird dann manchmal etwas unvorsichtig und nimmt den Beruf den einem die Software anbietet.

Gruß, David --DavidMar86hdf (talk) 20:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Parliament Q35749 = P31:Q167037?

Hello DavidMar86hdf. Sorry for my bad google english. Why do you set for Parliament Q35749 - P31:Q167037 - Corporation?

Hello,

thank you for comment. I think, here we have a Problem of Translation. The Item you mentioned has the german Item-Title "Körperschaft" Körperschaft has a broad meaning. I am not a Lawyer, so can not explain its exact definition. In Germany we have some kinds of "Körperschaft" which are not comparable with Corporation in its classical definition. Corporation is more connected to business. Körperschaft can also include entities state actors, For example, our municipalities or cities (or other actors of separation of powers: Courts,government organizations or parliamentary organizations)

As I said, I am not a Lawyer but that was my thinking behind it.

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 18:33, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

History of Parliament

Hi David,

Noticed this edit and thought you might like to know that we've set up History of Parliament ID (P1614) for this resource - I've switched this item to use it but you might find it useful for any others! Andrew Gray (talk) 19:23, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

Requests for deletion

Hi, I notice you always remove everything from an item before proposing it for deletion. Items don't need to be blanked before they can be deleted (as far as I'm aware!), so you shouldn't need to do that, it's just more work for you. It also makes it harder to check (for me at least) whether it should be deleted or not (often they can be merged, sometimes they can/should be linked from other items) because you have to dig around in the history to see what data was there originally and if we do think it is notable, or that it can be merged and had some information we wanted to keep, the edits have to be undone first. I think it would be better for everyone to just propose the items as they are. :) - Nikki (talk) 21:04, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

thank you for your comment, good to know that DavidMar86hdf (talk) 17:51, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

Could you please stop adding the link to the history to your nomination reason. The link to the article in the DR already contains a link to the history and it breaks the setting of the deletion reason when an admin clicks the link "delete". Mbch331 (talk) 14:22, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

Sorry for that, I only wanted to help. Thank you for comment.

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 14:30, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

I noticed you were using "no link to Wikipedia" as a reason to delete an item. This can never be a valid reason to delete an item. Items without a link to Wikipedia can still be notable. In this case there was no information to show the notability and the linked article was deleted. There were no incoming links, so it wasn't notable. Please use a better description in the future. Mbch331 (talk) 16:25, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

topic's main category (P910)

Hi again :) I think you've misunderstood what topic's main category (P910) is for (the wording is confusing (in English at least) so I can see why). It's not designed for linking to the category that the item belongs to (that is already implied by instance of (P31) and subclass of (P279)), it's for linking to the category which has the same meaning (it's the inverse of category's main topic (P301), so if X has topic's main category (P910) Y, then Y should have category's main topic (P301) X).

For example on Bellamy Bach (Q4883450), you had added topic's main category (P910) Category:Collective pseudonyms (Q6510810) which I removed, because that statement belongs on collective pseudonym (Q16017119). If there were an item for a Bellamy Bach category (probably called "Category:Bellamy Bach"), then that would be the right thing to link using topic's main category (P910).

- Nikki (talk) 02:17, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for that comment.

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 06:48, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

P1080 and P1441

Please, do not add P:1080 with works like in this. from narrative universe (P1080) should be used with fictional universes (see the constraints and the talk page). It's present in work (P1441) that should be used for indicate in which work the item appears. I corrected it but I would appreciate if you are more careful next time. Both P1080 and P1441 have 0 constraints violations in value now and I hope it can remain so. Many thanks! --Harmonia Amanda (talk) 18:15, 25 June 2015 (UTC)

Merging

If you find duplicates, just merge them instead of nominating one of them for deletion. Easiest way is to activate the merge gadget in your preferences. Mbch331 (talk) 13:16, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

David Burke is neither a first name nor a family name

Hi DavidMar86hdf,

please add "given name" (Q202444) and "family name" (Q101352) only to items made for such names. Sample: John (Q4925477)

"David Burke" is the full name a several persons, not a first name, nor a family name. The same goes for a series of other items you add this recently. --- Jura 05:31, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your advice.

I know what you said. But sometimes it is difficult to get the right thing. And sometimes I click on the wrong button (by mistake in the wikidata game). I will pay as much attention as possible to avoid what you mentioned.

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 10:21, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

You can find and fix them with Special:RecentChangesLinked/User:Jura1/first_names/items_(P31:_not_ok). I had corrected your edits from the 17/18th. --- Jura 09:16, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

No need to clean statements before deleting

Deleting statements for articles that are to be deleted is not needed. The existence of statements is no reason not to delete. Mbch331 (talk) 16:43, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Merge

Hi, why did you remove the sitelink here instead of just merging? The article yo:Paul Allen is now not connected, instead of being part of Paul Allen (Q162005). (Don't worry, I'll fix it, I'm just wondering why.) Jon Harald Søby (talk) 20:04, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment. I think I merged it. Maybe I missanderstood the german translation ("Zusammenlegen" vs. "Verschieben") --DavidMar86hdf (talk) 22:16, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

All linked articles have been deleted

Do you ever check the history of an item before nominating items with the reason All linked articles have been deleted? If so the text Removed link to [[xxwiki]] doesn't mean an article was deleted. It only means that a user removed the sitelink. This is something that often happens with bad merges. They don't merge, but remove the link and add it to another item. In those cases it's a question of finding out where the link was added and merge those items. If User:Hoo Bot removes a sitelink, then you can be certain the article was deleted, but only in that case. If you actually check what happend to the link and perform the merge yourself, that would safe us time for doing other things that actually are more useful. Mbch331 (talk) 21:02, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment and your information. Now I know better to deal with the matter.

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 23:39, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Wrong mergers

Hi, please by more careful with the merge game. I've just checked 4 of your recent ones, and three were wrong. --Zolo (talk) 15:41, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Thank you for your comment.

I try my best to avoid wrong merges (I play the "merge-game" from the distributed games series). I think the game offers enough information to make the right decisions. If it does not, I can not play

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 15:56, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

I have sometimes played that merge game. It is not always easy to know for sure that two items should be merged. It can be especially tricky for location/administrative units, where things are often more complex than first meets the eye. Checking properties like foundation date or external identifiers is often a good idea too. For instance, following ISSN links, you can see clearly that Moyen Age (Q15765775) and Le Moyen Âge (Q15766195) are not the same (different dates, different publishing location). Given that wrong merges are often hard to spot, and can create real issues, it sounds reasonable to use the "not sure" option generously. --Zolo (talk) 18:23, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

I use the "not sure" option mostly in the game. May it is a good idea that the identifiers are displayed on the game ( in the trad. Wikidata game this is the case I think)

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 18:39, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Ok but it seems that you still need to be more careful with your matchings. I went through all of your PSS-archi ID (P1838) mix'n'match edts, as I found out that there was an error rate of something like 20 or 30%. Better do less of them, but carefully enough that it does not need to be done twice. --Zolo (talk) 09:00, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

This merge is also wrong: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Q3988497&diff=287087104&oldid=168926198. One is an album by James, one by Hooverphonic. M!dgard (talk) 10:18, 25 January 2019 (UTC)

Disambiguation page

Please, this is not a disambiguation item. The linked pages are normal pages. --Superchilum^{(talk to me!)} 09:28, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

Deutsch

Hallo David,

im Deutschen schreibt man niemals " : ", der Doppelpunkt steht immer direkt hinter dem letzten Wort {A}": "{B}.--Kopiersperre (talk) 09:46, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Danke für den Hinweis.

Liebe Grüße --DavidMar86hdf (talk) 12:03, 20 April 2016 (UTC)

Dann halte dich bitte dran (FJM (Q3063258)).--Kopiersperre (talk) 10:57, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Das ist wirklich interessant! Da ist man einmal unaufmerksam, schon wird einem das um die Ohren gehauen. Ich werde für "absolute" Regelkonformität weder bezahlt, noch macht sich das gut im Lebenslauf. Ich versuche, hier nach besten Wissen und Gewissen zu agieren. Gut, das du mir meine Fehlbarkeit aufzeigst. Eine Leerstelle zu viel ist wirklich ein Regelbruch, der konsequent bis in die letzte Ecke verfolgt werden muss. Wikidata wird nur dann (und nur dann) Erfolg haben, wenn die Mitarbeiter konsequent, konzentriert und kompromisslos, regelkonform ihre Arbeit machen! Wenn Leute schon ihre Freizeit hier investieren, dann kann man Konsequenz, Konzentration und Regelkonformität voraussetzen. Ich bin froh, das du mich auf mein Fehlverhalten hinweist und freue mich wenn du mir auch in Zukunft meine Unachtsamkeit aufzeigst! Ist schließlich eine ernsthafte Sache hier!

Danke für dein Engagement!

Liebe Grüße --DavidMar86hdf (talk) 12:02, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Richtig – es geht um Leben und Tod! Es leben die nitpicking (Q256966)!--Kopiersperre (talk) 11:35, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Gut, das du bei deinem Engagement den feinen Sinn für Ironie nicht verloren hast. Das gilt schließlich nicht für Jeden. Ich habe mich an "Dann halte dich bitte dran" wohl etwas verschluckt. Daher der Kommentar. Wenn man hier doch einiges an Zeit investiert und man mit eher harmlosen "Regelverstößen" konfrontiert wird (die nicht bewusst macht), dann überinterpretiert man manche Formulierungen.

Liebe Grüße

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 14:04, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Books

Just saw you added some statements to The analytic tradition: meaning, thought and knowledge (Q24051810)    : the item is supposed to be a book. However, it is not ... That is incompatible with th en:FRBR model, in which a book is a phisical object. There is many many book for one printed work (usually). author  TomT0m / talk page 12:46, 16 May 2016 (UTC)

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Locator maps in Thailand

Ich weiß nicht warum das Distributed Game dir die vorschlägt, aber du fügst immer wieder Locator-Maps zu thailändischen Kreisen hinzu, die bereits eine solche Karte haben. Alle Amphoe haben schon die schönere neuere genauere SVG-Karte, du fügst dann immer die alten PNG-Karten hinzu. Vor allem da die Karten eigentlich genau den gleichen Inhalt haben macht es IMHO keinen Sinn beide hier zu verlinken. Ahoerstemeier (talk) 13:08, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

Danke für den Hinweis. Woher soll ich als Nutzer wissen, welches Bild bereits vorhanden ist und welches nicht? Die Software schlägt mir immer genau diese Lagekarten vor. Es keine anderen. Bei einigen schweizer Gemeinden bekomme ich mehrere Lagekarten präsentiert. In der Regel wird aber nur eine vorgeschlagen.

Gruß, --DavidMar86hdf (talk) 13:16, 8 July 2016 (UTC)

NLID

Hi, there is some problem with National Library of Israel ID (old) (P949) causing hundreds of entries being added to single item (see William Shakespeare (Q692)). I already reported the problem at property talkpage, but there is no feedback. Please do not add new claims until the problem is resolved. And of course feel free to help solve the problem. Thanks. --Jklamo (talk) 14:55, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

Q564473

Please note that I have reverted the claim you added, because it is the wrong species. thanks

Mix'n'match

Hello. Mix'n'match catalog 303 and 304 are corrupt. Use 306 instead please. Thierry Caro (talk) 16:54, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Monuments historiques en double

Salut,

Je viens de fusionner Wash house in Vanvey (Q22965030) et Wash house in Vanvey (Q29015190) qui (sauf erreur) concerne le même bâtiment. Da manière, et sauf quelques rares exceptions, tout les monuments historiques français existent déjà dans Wikidata, il est donc inutile de les re-créer.

Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 13:39, 29 March 2017 (UTC)

P463 and P611 = Q36380

Bonjour,

Je vois que tu as ajouté :

⟨ William Wright (Q8020596)    ⟩ member of (P463) ⟨ Society of Jesus (Q36380)    ⟩

mais il y a aussi :

⟨ William Wright (Q8020596)    ⟩ religious order (P611) ⟨ Society of Jesus (Q36380)    ⟩

Il me semble que cela fait doublon et que le second est plus approprié. Qu'en penses-tu ?

Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 12:49, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

粉 (Q2398854)

Hey! I saw that you were editing 粉 (Q2398854) and I thought maybe you'd be interested in how 雨 (Q3595028) was described. There is some more discussion here. ~★ nmaia ^d 12:02, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Ah, sorry, I meant to link to this discussion. ~★ nmaia ^d 12:05, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

Q4245940 - incorrect image was added

You are mistaked in the this edit. This is another man. Please be more accuracy! --Kaganer (talk) 15:58, 12 November 2017 (UTC)

Adding four different wrong id's

See the history of Portrait of Frederica Louise Wilhelmina van Oranje- Nassau (1770-1819) (Q17339830). You added a wrong id four times. Can you please be more careful? Multichill (talk) 21:00, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

On Portrait of a man (Q3399395) you added more wrong id's.

You keep messing up links, you don't respond on your talk page. Maybe I should just block you for disruptive editing? Does that get your attention? Multichill (talk) 20:18, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

@DavidMar86hdf, Multichill: This is the second or third time you added an obviously incorrect identifier. Can something be done please? --Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 17:31, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Wappen

Guten Abend, das doppelte Einfügen der Wappen führt zu Rotlinks in den Artikeln der Wikipedia. Daher musste ich Edits von dir zurück setzen. Bitte künftig darauf achten. --2003:DE:715:8643:A91F:562:694C:BA97 21:25, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

gleiches Verhalten nix gelernt. --2003:DE:715:860A:90A1:861C:B689:ABEF 16:57, 18 March 2018 (UTC)

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entity item circular subclass hierarchy

Your edit has caused a circular subclass hierarchy for entity (Q35120). See Wikidata:WikiProject Ontology/Problems/5th-order subclass of self. --Bamyers99 (talk) 19:51, 7 September 2018 (UTC)

Prefered image

Hi David. Adding more than one image causes havock in many ways, including Wikipedia Infoboxes. Please select the best, only. Thanks! Sian EJ (talk) 10:54, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

John Murray, 1st Earl of Annandale

Not sure why you added 'unknown value' to the Country of Citizenship for John Murray, 1st Earl of Annandale (Q18527375) diff. He's clearly born in Scotland of Scottish parents & hence would have been a citizen of the Kingdom of Scotland. Per his en.wiki article, he was naturalised as an English citizen in 1610. Unless values are indubitably unknown, it tends to be better not to add 'unknown value'. --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:37, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Strange old statements on Q734290

Hi,

Could you take a look at Asouade (Q734290), more specifically at the values of stated in (P248). The whole thing seems a bit wrong (probably because back in 2014 things weren't as clear as today) and I'm not sure exactly how to fix it.

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 14:20, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

PS: same for acino (Q341454)

Image of wrong species

Hey David, just curious why you added a picture of a completely unrelated species to dark Newtonia (Q1307522). Kaldari (talk) 19:53, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

I've replaced it with an image of the correct species. Kaldari (talk) 19:54, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

I figured out the problem and reported it here: https://bitbucket.org/magnusmanske/wikidata-game/issues/230/distributed-game-for-taxons-is-causing. Kaldari (talk) 20:14, 23 August 2019 (UTC)

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RfD Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions#Q12892476

Please have a look at this RfD: Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions#Q12892476. I am asking you because of this edit from you. If this is the creolic name for english seam this should be added to Q2250050. -- Xorx (talk) 10:55, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

Are you sure, you refer to the right person?

DavidMar86hdf (talk) 11:57, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

The edit history shows that you added the Value "Kouti (Haiti-Kreolisch)" to P1705 on August 17, 2019. -- Xorx (talk) 14:30, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

town marshal

Salut David. Cette fonction actuellement dédiée au Texas semble correspondre à celle occupée par Newton Earp à Garden City (Kansas). Penses-tu qu'on puisse modifier la description et élargir son application aux États-Unis ? Genium. 22:45, Nov 30, 2019 (UTC+02:00)

 Done. Genium. 19:30, Dec 10, 2019 (UTC+02:00)

Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Q4281785) et Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Q6758092)

Bonjour ! En 2017, vous avez indiqué que Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Q4281785)said to be the same as (P460)Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Q6758092). Il me semble en fait que c'est bel et bien la même personne ; est-ce que je peux procéder à la fusion ? --Jahl de Vautban (talk) 15:19, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Cork (Q36647) merged into Q12825207

Hi DavidMar86hdf

I noticed you merged Cork (Q36647) into Q12825207.

The default is to merge into Q36647 especially as more than 1000 uses seem to be of that item and only 2 of the other.

Apparently you did that in other cases [2] too. I think Help:Merge recommends the opposite.

Is there a reason why you unchecked the option "Always merge into the older entity (uncheck to merge into the "Merge with" entity)"? --- Jura 08:25, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Hello,

thank you for your Input. I did not know that. I hope I did not to much wrong?

Thanks for your support.

--DavidMar86hdf (talk) 10:09, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Concepts and terms

Hi. Please note that Wikidata items as well as Wikipedia articles generally are about concepts not terms (i.e. lexicographical data that should be treated differently). Concepts and terms are distinct, single concept may be denoted by multiple terms, and single term may denote multiple concepts. Hence we shouldn't really presume that items like Q11800704 and Q12311620 and are about terms. Moreover I see no reason to think that these concepts are specific to particular language just because there happens to be sitelink in one language. Even if no other language truely doesn't have corresponding term, then language is about the term and not about the concept that it denotes. In many cases like "Fojait" rock you apparetly fill in English/German label based on sitelink language, despite the fact that it's easy to find corresponding terms in other languages (in this case for foyaite). This indicates that you simply don't know corresponding terms in other languages. Please avoid creating such confusion and leave such items to other users who are familiar with the concept and can read Wikipedia article in relevant language. 2001:7D0:81F7:B580:D8F5:3846:16A3:B358 08:08, 11 April 2021 (UTC)

Q9306086 Polish "relator" (POS)

Hello DavidMar86hdf, could you clarify the English description of Q9306086 and consider adding the subclass of (P279) adverb Q380057 if relevant. Every help to improve the list of Parts of Speech is good to take :) Yug (talk) 16:14, 11 December 2021 (UTC)

unknown value in coordinate location

Hallo David, I stumble over a lot of unknown value for coordinate location (P625) of places entered by you - examples: Keçeli (Q6924278), Dazcana (Q6934461), Izdara (Q6967448). What is your source for those coodinates? The place names are all from kuwiki... --Katpatuka (talk) 08:31, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

"Driver" in azwiki

Hi David,

I've wanted to get rid of the duplicate articles about device driver (Q1033951) in Azeri Wikipedia.

Sadly creating a redirect at https://az.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=S%C3%BCr%C3%BCc%C3%BC&action=edit is maliciously classified as "page blanking".

May you please help me when you also think the shorter article could be redirected? Regards, --Magic Ruickbie (talk) 20:24, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

What is a flotor?

What is the difference between a float (Q50380212) and a Q12728448?-- Offensiwe (talk) 17:12, 3 September 2022 (UTC)

Automated report of empty item: Q11481258

Hello, an item that you have edited (and you are the only non-bot editor) is considered empty and will be deleted in 72 hours if it doesn't improve. Your automated cleaner, Dexbot (talk) 03:26, 15 January 2023 (UTC)

P31 and P279

Please avoid using both P31 and P279 in an item, unless P31 value is a metaclass like ship type (Q2235308). E.g. seat (Q2207370) and stool (Q33163) are both classes of physical objects (neither is metaclass), and Schegn (Q13212356) in turn cannot be type of physical object (class) and a concrete physical object (instance) at the same time (as set here). See also Help:Basic membership properties. 2001:7D0:81FD:BC80:34FA:C5EA:EFC9:3B40 07:16, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

German

Bonjour David,

your German is very good, but there are a few traditions originating from the German Wikipedia. Please don't add suffixes like , geboren 1871 (Vladimir Benak (Q95281701)) to German descriptions.-- Jackie Bensberg (talk) 15:36, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

technical term

Hi there. I see you are the primary adder of technical term (Q12812139) to many items. I am interested in removing all the instance of (P31) technical term (Q12812139) statements for items that represent concepts and not vocabulary words. The current addition of this statement makes items conflate the two things. There's also the fact that if an item represents a word, it should probably be a lexeme and not an item. Finally instance of (P31) technical term (Q12812139) should not be an statement on most items since technical term (Q12812139) is not a metaclass. Does this sound good to you? Lectrician1 (talk) 17:23, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Eihel. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent description edits to Q15987216 didn't meet the Wikidata description guidelines. Descriptions should appear as though they were in the middle of a sentence, typically start with a lowercase letter, and written from a neutral point of view. For example, "pop singer" would be a better description than "He is the best pop singer." If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!  Eihel (talk) 01:31, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

Hello, I'm Eihel. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent description edits to Q176831 didn't meet the Wikidata description guidelines. Descriptions should appear as though they were in the middle of a sentence, typically start with a lowercase letter, and written from a neutral point of view. For example, "pop singer" would be a better description than "He is the best pop singer." If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks!  Eihel (talk) 21:41, 3 January 2024 (UTC)

P1412

Hi, can I ask what you are basing your addition of "Finnish" on when adding this property to items? For example, you added "Finnish" on this author's item, yet she is a Swedish-speaking Finn. - Yupik (talk) 18:51, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

AN discussion

There is a discussion at Wikidata:Administrators'_noticeboard#User:DavidMar86hdf that would benefit from your input.

Also, I note that you do not appear to respond to feedback. This is an important part of participation in the Wikidata project. Bovlb (talk) 17:42, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for your remark.

I do respond to feedback if I now what to say.

Is there a rule that says what appropriate communication should look like on this platform? I just want to pass the time here.

best regards DavidMar86hdf (talk) 19:33, 2 April 2024 (UTC)

If you don't know understand feedback, that's something you can say, and ask for clarification. If you accept the feedback and resolve to do better in future, that's also something you can say. If you reject the feedback, you can say that too, preferably with an explanation of why.

I see dozens of instances of feedback here, going back ten years, and this appears to be the first time ever that you have responded. This is below the level of responsiveness that we expect from editors. Bovlb (talk) 00:32, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for the clarification. That wasn't meant badly at all. Of course, I try to accept and implement criticism. Maybe I react a little sensitively when the word “expectation” is used against me. I'm trying to contribute here to the best of my knowledge and belief. and yes, maybe I'm not as responsive as you'd expect.

Best regards DavidMar86hdf (talk) 23:15, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

You do the same mistakes over and over, I'd say in about every other item. This is why it seems that you simply ignore the feedback. Over time I've also reverted numerous edits of your, providing further commentary in edit summaries. Maybe you have disabled notifications and so you don't receive these additional comments? In case you have disabled notification, I let you know here that I responded to your last comment at the administrators' noticeboard. 2001:7D0:81DB:1480:D034:69CB:B488:2999 08:22, 3 April 2024 (UTC)

Descriptions in Wikidata

Please note that descriptions in English and other languages (including Danish) generally should begin with a lower case letter, not be longer than 8-12 words and should not normally begin with initial articles (a, an, the): Help:Description#Capitalization. In the same way Danish descriptions should not begin with "er en " or similar. Hjart (talk) 20:38, 4 September 2024 (UTC)