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Policy to handle duplicate Wikidata items

Open marfox opened this issue 7 years ago • 1 comments

Example

The MusicBrainz baseline matcher said: Q12622425 -> c6cee938-adea-44f5-ad87-f42630233f1d

but Q8966672 is the real one and already has the MusicBrainz ID above.

Possible actions

  • if the external ID already exists on Wikidata, don't add it to the other item;
  • keep track of the match & publish a log: this is a bot activity, see #91;
  • add the match source item as a candidate for the Wikidata merge game.

marfox avatar Sep 26 '18 14:09 marfox

The validator could check inconsistencies like QID 1 points to MusicBrainz artist X, but MusicBrainz artist X points to QID 2.

marfox avatar Nov 15 '18 14:11 marfox