Joostik

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Best regards! --Bill william compton (talk) 15:55, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Merge

Please be careful: Q1413824 and Q12185286 are two different elements that didn't need to be merge, as you can see on the properties assigned to each one of them. Andreasm ^{háblame / just talk to me} 01:37, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

I see your point and would agree in theory, but in practice I stil think it would be useful to merge them, especially as there would not be any conflicts. --Joostik (talk) 16:54, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

On the contrary. Being separated, they can be used as statements in properties (Q1413824 with Property:P106 and Q12185286 with Property:P425 and others). Andreasm ^{háblame / just talk to me} 01:10, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Depends on what you find more important. Most users don't care about properties, but they do follow language links. --Joostik (talk) 16:41, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

Unrelated merge note

Two things: Please list both the page you merge from and the page you merge to. I had to clean up a mess today (ugh; not your fault) that I wouldn't have realized was a mess without poking.

Second note: You might want to consider using the Merge gadget for merging. --Izno (talk) 01:59, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Yes, I know, I'm sorry. I usually do but was lazy this time. --Joostik (talk) 09:08, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

Disambiguation pages

Hi Joostik. I noted that you re-merged disambiguation pages named "Obraz" back into Image (Q185675). I moved them to a new item again, Obraz (Q13628444), per the guidelines for disambiguation pages on Wikidata:Disambiguation pages task force. Regards, --Kam Solusar (talk) 19:13, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Any particular guideline? --Joostik (talk) 08:09, 7 July 2013 (UTC)

Okay, I think I see the guideline. Frankly, and that's not just my opinion but I heard from others as well, it's an utterly ridiculous guideline. --Joostik (talk) 18:15, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Hmm, I would like to see these items merged too. And I don't like this understanding of the guideline. --Infovarius (talk) 18:52, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Delete reason

Hi, could you please use better reason than just "empty"? If you have merged the items, it's better to write something like "merged with Q123456". This way admins can delete those items faster. --Stryn (talk) 13:08, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Okay. --Joostik (talk) 14:42, 12 July 2013 (UTC)

Q5675296

Hey Joostik, I have replied to your deletion request at Wikidata:Requests_for_deletions#Q5675296. Del_♉sion23 (talk) 23:10, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Merge gadget

Hey Joostik , Just so you know, there is a gadget in your preferences that when activated allows you to merge items automatically. It can even send the emptied items to RfD automatically. There is more info at Help:Merge. It's such a useful feature :) Cheers. --Vivaelcelta (talk) 20:59, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

• Thank you very much; I'll look into it! --Joostik (talk) 21:03, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
  • As an added note, you can set your merge gadget to merge to the lower Q number so that the older item is kept :) Thanks. Del_♉sion23 (talk) 22:12, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Q10972215

Why have you merged template and category? --Infovarius (talk) 13:19, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

• You are right; sorry for that. I must have not been paying enough attention. --Joostik (talk) 18:11, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

Q2006180

Hallo, Joostik. Why did you merge Q2006180 with Q14438808? The articles in Esperanto (eowp) and Dutch (nlwp) have an other topic than the articles in German (dewp), English (enwp) and Portuguese (ptwp). --Tlustulimu (talk) 15:31, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

From the English wiki: "L. L. Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, called a table of systematic interrogative, demonstrative, and quantifier pro-forms and determiners in a language a table of correlatives, after the relative and demonstrative proforms, which function together as correlatives. The table of correlatives for English follows." So they are either essentially about the same thing or the English wiki should be rewritten. --Joostik (talk) 14:39, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

I think, that the English article mixes the both topics. :-( I propose, that you undo the merge and let the English article in the group with the German and Portuguese articles. It isn't possible to link an article with two groups in Wikidata. Do you have an other idea?

Do you edit in the English wikipedia? If yes, you can propose there the separation of the chapter in an own article. --Tlustulimu (talk) 12:06, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

I'll try to sort it out in the near future, when I'm back from holyday. --Joostik (talk) 08:07, 20 April 2015 (UTC)

instance of (P31)

Vergeet je bij nieuwe items niet om een instance of (P31) toe te voegen? Dit zorgt er voor dat andere gebruikers en bots weten waar het item over gaat. Ze komen dan ook bij diverse tools onder de radar. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 17:35, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

Herhaald verzoek, zou je dit willen doen? Zo bespaar je anderen het werk. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 10:09, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Zou ik graag willen doen, als ik wist hoe. Dat wordt namelijk nergens uitgelegd, en pogingen mijnerzijds lopen vast omdat wat ik ook invul het niet opgeslagen wordt. --Joostik (talk) 15:09, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Zie de snelcursus verklaringen hier. Als je niet weet hoe het moest, kon je dat ook in mei vragen. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 15:30, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Alles wat er in die snelcursus uitgelegd wordt, wist ik ondertussen ook wel. Het gaat hier echter over de statements, die bij veel items toegevoegd zijn, maar bij vele andere ook niet.--Joostik (talk) 15:45, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Statements zijn hetzelfde als verklaringen. Als de snelcursus niet duidelijk is, staat hier meer informatie. Ik zou niet weten waar je tegenaan loopt. Sjoerd de Bruin (talk) 15:48, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Het probleem was dat als ik bij "instance of" iets invulde ik dat niet op kon slaan. Merkwaardig genoeg lukte dat nu wel. En nee, aan Help:Statements heb je niet echt veel. --Joostik (talk) 16:02, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

Canvas en schildersdoek

Beste Joostik,

Grappig dat jij vorige week besloot het item canvas (Q4259259) op te splitsen. Nog geen week eerder had ik dit item zitten bekijken en me eveneens afgevraagd of dit niet beter kon worden opgesplitst, omdat ook de Nederlandse Wikipedia deze splitsing maakte, en het artikel nl:Schildersdoek nu buiten de boot viel, terwijl bijv. het Franse en Duitse artikel ook hoofdzakelijk over canvas als schildersdoek gaan. Het leek me een nogal complexe beslissing, daarom heb ik het uitgesteld. Eerlijk gezegd ben ik geen groot textielkenner dus ik wilde ook eerst uitzoeken wat canvas nou eigenlijk onderscheidt van andere weefsels; het Nederlandse artikel klopt volgens mij niet. De Arts & Architecture Thesaurus omschrijft het als volgt (zie de hier):

Dichtgeweven stof in verschillende gewichten; wordt meestal gemaakt van vlas, hennep, jute of katoen en vooral gebruikt voor zeilen, dekkleden en stoffering en als ondergrond voor olieverfschilderijen. Het wordt ook gebruikt voor rasterachtig gaas dat van soortgelijke materialen is gemaakt en wordt gebruikt als ondergrond voor borduurwerk.

Ik vind het leuk dat jij op hetzelfde idee kwam. Ik heb alvast een Nederlandse omschrijving toegevoegd. Alvorens verder te gaan is er wel een belangrijk aandachtspunt: het item canvas (Q4259259) wordt op dit moment gebruikt in de eigenschappen van meer dan 1000 andere items. Het Girl with a Pearl Earring (Q185372) en vele andere schilderijen hebben namelijk de eigenschap made from material (P186) met Q4259259 als waarde. Het lijkt me iets logischer als deze waarde zo specifiek mogelijk is, dus het item voor canvas-als-schildersdoek (nu in canvas (Q20155905)) en niet het item voor canvas-in-het-algemeen. In de AAT maakt men dit onderscheid overigens niet, maar dat is logisch want dat is een kunstthesaurus, dus een term als deze zal primair als kunstterm worden opgevat; er zijn daarnaast wel termen voor canvas-als-zeildoek en gonje, d.w.z. canvas van jute voor jute zakken e.d. Misschien kan de een of andere bot deze waarde wijzigen op al die schilderijenitems, anders zou de invulling van beide items precies omgedraaid moeten worden.

Groten, Bever (talk) 23:28, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

canvas (Q4259259), in het Engels, wordt in de meeste online kunstdatabases van musea e.d. gebruikt als generieke term voor schildersdoek. In het Nederlands wordt inderdaad vaker over 'doek' gesproken, zoals in 'olieverf op doek'. Complicerende factor: canvas heeft in het Nederlands dus net een iets andere en meer specifieke betekenis dan in het Engels. Meer gedetailleerde informatie dan het generieke 'canvas'/'doek' vind je bijna nooit (bijvoorbeeld: over welke vezel gaat het precies?). 'Canvas' is echt een heel gangbare term in de kunstgeschiedenis, dus zeker bij beschrijving van schilderijen zou ik enkel andere termen gebruiken als je zeker weet (mét betrouwbare bron) dat het een specifiek ander materiaal is, met een andere benaming. Ik zou het dus ook 't beste vinden om het niet op te gaan splitsen en het niet anders te gaan noemen. (Voor houten dragers heb je - heel soms - wel meer informatie, bijvoorbeeld dat het om een eiken paneel gaat, niet generiek 'hout'. Indien mogelijk registreren we dat ook op Wikidata.) Hartelijke groet, Spinster (talk) 20:36, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Vasily merges

Hi Joostik,

I undid some of your merges as they combined different scripts and/or spelling. I also tried to fix some of the item before the merges. Wikidata:WikiProject Names/lists/given names/Vasily should give an overview. --- Jura 17:22, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

About note (Q12823770) and footnote (Q59615872)

Hello! When you unbundle so many interlinks to another item, you should at list do the same with the relative labels and description (as I did here), otherwise you leave a big confusion behind you. --Horcrux (talk) 11:06, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! Sorry for that. To be honest I didn't realise you could make them visible for all languages (actually you'd expect them to migrate automaticaly with the item, but that's clearly not the case). Yours, Joostik (talk) 17:05, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Braid

“Braid” (the structure) and “braid” (trim used in sewing) should not have been merged. Among other things, braid (trimming) usually isn’t braided. The Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus has two separate entries for these concepts for a reason. Can you undo this merge, please? - PKM (talk) 19:07, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Okay, restored the old versions. Joostik (talk) 19:15, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

Request

Hello.

Can you create the article about the prominent actor en:Haluk Bilginer in Dutch?

Thank you.

Sarvathi (talk) 17:03, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

Pan Grave Culture

Hey Joostik, I noticed there were two wikidata items on the Pan Grave Culture (one added by you with a link to wiki-nl, as well as another one with wiki-es and wiki-de links). I wanted to help out and merge them, but I seem to have made a mess of it. Q1665306 is the most complete, but I think I messed up my redirect from Q61832307 and I don't know if and how I can delete that one. My apologies. WikiLies (talk) 20:19, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

Thank you! I really searched for different-languages articles, but somehow did not find these. The redirect seems to be allright now, though? Joostik (talk) 22:19, 23 February 2019 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure a bot solved the issue! Phew! WikiLies (talk) 09:30, 24 February 2019 (UTC)

Harmful redirects

Hello, I'm Incnis Mrsi. I wanted to let you know that I undid one or more of your recent contributions to Q1307899 and Q756747 because it didn't appear constructive. Feel free to use the sandbox for test edits.

Stop redirecting entities to ones for different concepts, demonstrably distinguished by Wikipedia. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 10:17, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Thank you for ponting that out. Yes I do make mistakes occasionally. --Joostik (talk) 10:47, 28 June 2019 (UTC)

Counties of Illinois

Excuse me??? -- Blackcat (talk) 20:24, 13 September 2019 (UTC)

Turkish names

Hi. Please do not add "Category:Akgün (surname)" to an item which is "Akgun". Create "Akgün" as I just did, instead. Thanks. --E4024 (talk) 02:12, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Favella

Hello, you merged w:nl:Favella and species:Favella, but that is not the same. Please revert. Thank you --Murma174 (talk) 05:49, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Done. Joostik (talk) 16:15, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Fake elevations from ceb.wiki

Hi Joostik, I noticed that you added to some wikimedia articles about mountains datas taken from ceb.wiki (i.e in this edit, that I had to revert). Maybe you don't know, but the elevations taken from ceb.wiki are sistematically wrong, as stated here. So if it's possible I'd suggesto you to revert your edits of this kind, and above all to refrain importing on wikidata new wrong datas from ceb.wiki. Thaks in advance, --Pampuco (talk) 21:09, 14 June 2020 (UTC)

If the data are wrong maybe do something about that. Dont complain about people using data in good faith when theres no good reason to doubt it. Maybe just remove all he wrong data? Problem solved. Joostik (talk) 15:11, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

And btw I didn't "added data to wikimedia articles", I merged items which were clearly about the same subject. That some of the data is wrong isn't my fault and doesn't change the fact that the subjects are the same. Joostik (talk) 15:18, 16 June 2020 (UTC)

Bad merge again

Betoniera (Q29580912) and concrete mixer (Q831584) have nothing common except the name (one is a film, the other one a concept). Please be more careful when merging. Taylor 49 (talk) 18:49, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

Q60445013 deletion

WD:RFD This entity is the same as: Q1969196. I was merged this entries. Piotr Osada (talk) 18:42, 21 September 2021 (UTC)

Plougrescant-Ommerschans swords

Thanks Joostik, for creating this Wikidata-item. In English, these type of swords are called dirks. So it would be "Plougrescant-Ommerschans dirks". The English call them dirks because they are similar in appearance with the Kimberly-dirk, but that one is much smaller and really a dirk. The Plougrescant-Ommerschans dirks have the size of a sword, therefore in Dutch and French they referred to as swords. But since English is the common language on Wikidata it is best to describe them as dirks. Regards, Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 10:08, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

Actually I did consider that name, just wasn't sure how common it was. If you want just change it. Joostik (talk) 16:34, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

I am not very familiar with Wikidata. Please, change it. Jan Arkesteijn (talk) 08:29, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

Okay. Joostik (talk) 19:31, 16 May 2023 (UTC)