On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 19:47, Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 at 13:58, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > if there is a property shared by all members of a group then it MUST be > marked on > > the group ALONE and not also on individual members. > > This is not the rule on Wikidata. > But I was applying that rule to OSM, not wikidata. Wikidata can do whatever it wants. But if there's a wikidata item for a grouping then OSM mappers should not apply that item to individual members of the group. > Yes, I've been bitten by this before. Marking up Wikimedia images as > being listed > > buildings. All went fine until I happened to mark a few that were > collected in a group > > of "Listed buildings in <Location>." Those changes were reverted > because the > > grouping itself was flagged as being of listed buildings. > > Do you mean categories on Wikimedia Commons? That's not Wikidata. > If I recall correctly, I made that statement in the context of rules being over-zealously applied. That particular case happened to me over on the commons. Nothing in the template said I shouldn't do that, nothing in any documentation I could find said I shouldn't do that, what I did was consistent and made things more usable. But somebody decided that, by his interpretation of some arcane rule, I was wrong. So be it. It's something that happens across many open-source projects where anarchy semi-rules. -- Paul
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