S.v.Mering

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Best regards! M2k~dewiki (talk) 14:13, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

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Removing author name string if you add author

Hi, I noticed that you were adding authors to some items I've added to Wikidata. This is really helpful, thanks!

Can I make one request though? If you add a person as an author (P50) can you remove the corresponding author name string (P2093). For example New species of Neogene radiolarians from the Southern Ocean – part III (Q99654906) has both Johan Renaudie (Q37374809) and "Johan Renaudie" listed as "authors". This can cause problems for tools that assume that an author is either a "thing" author (P50) or a "string" author name string (P2093), but not both. For example, it confuses Scholia, see https://scholia.toolforge.org/work/Q99654906

The convention is to replace author name string (P2093) by author (P50) if you add an author as a "thing". What I also do is add object named as (P1932) as a qualifier so that we keep the original name string mention in the source data (handy if we need to go back and check). I think https://author-disambiguator.toolforge.org does this, and I certainly do it in a little tool I wrote to generate quick statements to change authors from author (P50) or author name string (P2093) https://ozymandias-demo.herokuapp.com/wikidata-match.php?q=Johan+Renaudie

In other words for New species of Neogene radiolarians from the Southern Ocean – part III (Q99654906) (and any other similar cases) we should delete the author name string (P2093) (and ideally add object named as (P1932) with the name string. Hope this makes sense, and thanks again for editing these records. Rdmpage (talk) 13:32, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Hi, thank you for pointing this out to me. I was not sure how to best handle this but will act according to your suggestions from now on. However, I might need to go back to a number of other articles to clean up... S.v.Mering (talk) 13:41, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

This is one of the frustrations of Wikidata, it's often hard to find out how things are done, and usually there's more than one way to do things :/

Have you used Quickstatments? This would make it a lot easier to link authors to their papers. Rdmpage (talk) 14:24, 1 December 2021 (UTC)

Not yet but I hope to dive into Quickstatements over the holidays! :) Thanks S.v.Mering (talk) 14:38, 1 December 2021 (UTC)