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Wikidata linking
Hi. I appreciate your efficiency in finding and linking Wikidata, but a recent issue prompts me to ask: how much do you know about creating or deleting Wikidata items? I ask because in several cases - including the Anoplophora you linked today - Wikidata has links for misspellings in addition to the correct spellings, and sometimes the ONLY item in Wikidata is a misspelling (e.g., there is no link in Wikidata for Phytoecia rebeccae, but instead for the misspelling "rebbeccae". It would be great to know how to fix some of these issues at their root; after all, in Wikipedia, one can configure a misspelling to be a redirect to the correct spelling. I find it hard to imagine that Wikidata would not allow for a similar functionality. Thanks, Dyanega (talk) 16:06, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thank you for your kind words. I try not to tread on people's toes while they are creating articles if I can help it.
- Misspellings are regrettably common in Wikidata, because names tend to be copied over from source databases (such as GBIF) en masse, by non-experts, like myself. In the case of P. rebeccae it seems a Wikidata item with the wrong name was created to match the original Wikipedia article. On Wikidata I have created Phytoecia rebeccae (Q113458343) and changed Phytoecia rebbeccae (Q30323087) to be an instance of misspelling (Q1984758) of (P642) Phytoecia rebeccae (Q113458343). If the misspelling was confined to Wikipedia, I might have just changed the spelling on the Wikidata item, but it has a BioLib taxon ID (P838) for the wrong spelling, so people may as well be warned.
- You can query all the misspellings in Wikidata. like this.
- Requests for deletion of items can be filed at d:WD:RFD.
- There is d:Wikidata talk:WikiProject Taxonomy, but I can understand people not wanting to get involved. William Avery (talk) 13:51, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'll try to take a closer look at how this works. Appreciate the tips. Dyanega (talk) 15:36, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
- Just came across a problem case, maybe you know what to do - the genus Adamas (sawfly) has a wikidata link, but that link displays a homonnymous fish genus name in ITIS. That ITIS entry is bad, and should not appear connected to "Adamas Malaise" in Wikidata. Ideas? Thanks, Dyanega (talk) 21:13, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
- I moved the ITIS id from Adamas (Q21358925) to the fish genus Adamas (Q26589201) and changed the fish genus to an instance of "later homonym". William Avery (talk) 10:39, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
- Just came across a problem case, maybe you know what to do - the genus Adamas (sawfly) has a wikidata link, but that link displays a homonnymous fish genus name in ITIS. That ITIS entry is bad, and should not appear connected to "Adamas Malaise" in Wikidata. Ideas? Thanks, Dyanega (talk) 21:13, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks. I'll try to take a closer look at how this works. Appreciate the tips. Dyanega (talk) 15:36, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
Taxoboxalyzer
I was going to convert some taxoboxes to the automatic taxobox system, but you disabled Taxoboxalyzer. Is there a reason you did that? Scorpions13256 (talk) 02:55, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
- Sorry, I broke it with this edit, while I was thrashing around trying to work out what was causing WP:VP/T § dashes script malfunction and WP:VP/T § Multiple Table options when editing slowing down pages. Thanks for using Taxoboxalyzer! William Avery (talk) 07:01, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
- I had a feeling that those malfunctions had something to do with this. Thank you for your time. Scorpions13256 (talk) 09:27, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
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Taxoboxalyzer and subgenus
Hi, I made a fix for your edit at Elachista atricomella. Taxoboxalyzer does not deal correctly with manual species taxoboxes that contain a subgenus parameter. Maybe you know that the correct approach using {{Speciesbox}} uses |parent=
which then needs a taxonomy template to exist for the subgenus. Peter coxhead (talk) 15:37, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
Rejected draft reports no longer updating?
Hello William Avery,
The rejected draft reports you created doesn't seem to be updating anymore. The last information is from 10th of September: https://heber.toolforge.org/drafts/filter/20220910. All the following days show an empty report. MKFI (talk) 11:24, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
- Thanks for letting me know. I'll take a look later. William Avery (talk) 12:32, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
- It should be updating as usual now. I am subscribed to the appropriate mailing list, but missed this. 🤭 William Avery (talk) 15:46, 26 September 2022 (UTC)