User talk:GerardM

I moved old talk in order to unclutter. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 06:25, 3 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Picture of Laurent-Désiré Kabila on your presidents of the DRC page[edit]

Hello, Gerard. I would like to point out that the picture of Laurent-Désiré Kabila on your DRC presidents page has been tagged as a copyvio. I do hope that you would know; however, I am simply bringing this to your attention. As such, I would like to request that the picture be changed, if possible. Thank you. Caehlla2357 (talk) 17:13, 20 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Political party instead of country column[edit]

This refers to User:GerardM/Members of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People of Tunisia

I think having the country column is pointless because they are obviously all Tunisian. Could it be changed to political party? Would be useful info to have on this table. Lankyant (talk) 14:48, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hoi, the queries that I use have two functions.

it shows what the page is about
it shows the completeness of the information

for the last reason, the country is added. Political parties change and complicate things. For me the fact that we have a country makes a difference when we do an automated description. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 16:26, 31 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Award coverage here and Wikidata[edit]

Hi. I see that you are not so active at EN.wiki as 7-9 years ago, while I have contributed almost nothing here, until this month. One of the last conversations (as my User talk page suggests) when I was still active is this one you initiated December 2015.

User talk:P64#Carnegie Medal at Wikidata

Concerning your registration of award winning writers or works at Wikidata, I should have directed you then to three different locations where I sometimes maintained quantitative account of award history at least, and our EN.wiki coverage of that history in some cases (perhaps limited to US and UK literary and book awards):

award winners Table; eg, Carnegie Medal (literary award)#Winners, preface
Category page; eg, Category:Guardian Children's Fiction Prize winners, last sentence
Category talk page; eg, Category talk:Margaret A. Edwards Award winners, entire page

(Those major awards actually have two or all three locations.)

I see now that award coverage by a navigation Template, rather than a Category or two, may be useful in the same way. Its talk page is a good place to summarize all Wikipedia (and perhaps Wikidata) coverage of the award.

Template talk page; eg Template talk:Michael L. Printz Award Winners --done today

--P64 (talk) 19:34, 23 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I do not really work on English Wikipedia because it is only English Wikipedia. At this time I am working on awards, they are awards for scientists, particularly in the field of hydrology and ecology. Over time I learned many good reasons why the insular approach of English Wikipedia is sub optimal.

all the research is not reused to the benefit of all other Wikipedias and all other Wikimedia projects.
Disambiguation at Wikidata is better. Particularly "automated description" is awesome.
In awards you link to items, so there are no red or black links.
Scientists produce papers with findings, they are linked to papers and by inference to awards.
In a Scholia, you can visualise information about scholars, papers, awards and subjects. Using the Scholia template you can bring such a visualisation to a Wikipedia article.
The information that is in Wikidata can be used to compare with Wikipedia lists and categories. It is particularly easy to populate categories from Wikidata (in any Wikipedia).

I love to work together. However, it should benefit all of us. Contributing to Wikidata has imho the potential of bringing the most benefit in quality for all Wikimedia users. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 19:16, 24 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Work at Wikidata[edit]

Last hour at Wikidata, I merged Jake Day and Maurice Day (of Wikisource and fr:Maurice Day, with the raw Merge Wizard result d:Q3300637 now as I depart.
Do you advise/prefer/request at this stage I would --rather than depart-- remove the DoB 1892, having 1892-07-02 with reference English Wikipedia; remove the DoD 1983, having 1983-05-17 w/ref EN-Wiki?

I am working at ISFDB. You may note there is a warning: ISFDB author ID 331244 used twice, on the two records that I have merged. --P64 (talk) 17:26, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Hoi, there are different schools of thought... Mine is: I want the best date only.. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 17:33, 25 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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