User talk:Belagaile

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Best regards! Bovlb (talk) 15:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

April 2020

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 page Q85707027. 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) 15:02, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Authority control data

Hi. First sorry for reverting a few of your edits. Anyway, if you like to add more authority control data in a semi-automatic way in the correct format, you can try the script I use and usually keep updated. Here is the script: User:Sotho_Tal_Ker/authority_control.js. You can add it to your personal common.js like this: User:Sotho_Tal_Ker/common.js. If used, you will have a new tool available in the left sidebar. Happy editing. --Sotho Tal Ker (talk) 23:17, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Please merge instead of blanking

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 page Q75275832. 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) 15:29, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

I have found and fixed two other cases where you made the same error: Theo Chandos Hoskyns-Abrahall (Q94694392) and Clare H. Abrahall (Q75745100). Bovlb (talk) 15:37, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Thanks--Belagaile (talk) 09:38, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

VIAF members

Hi (and excuse me for writing in English)! I've seen that in Janice Kaiser (Q12277971) you have extracted manually VIAF members from the VIAF cluster. You can try User:Bargioni/moreIdentifiers, which provides you a very easy and fast way to extract VIAF members from VIAF clusters. Ask me if you have any doubt! Bye, --Epìdosis 09:14, 27 April 2021 (UTC)