Wikidata:Requests for comment/Orphaned wikidata

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An editor has requested the community to provide input on "Orphaned wikidata" via the Requests for comment (RFC) process. This is the discussion page regarding the issue.

If you have an opinion regarding this issue, feel free to comment below. Thank you!

Hi, Today I see for the first time that there are wikidata personal entries without any existing article in any wikiproject. I wonder if that has any system. What is the point of this?

We try to evaluate topical editing on swwiki and I find this irritating. I found several entries on Tanzanian women with no article on enwiki, swwiki or elsewhere. I saw some were started by user:Nattes à chat and user:Florentyna.

To me it looks like a receipe for a bit of chaos, not least because of the varying orthographies in this area of the world. Example wd:Q26986911 "Nassra Jumaa". On dewiki she is metioned and red-linked as Nasra Juma de:Badminton-Afrikameisterschaft_1992 so if anybody uses that red link for an article it will be a new entry and nobody will discover that Florentyna had already started a wikidata itemry with a weird different spelling from wheresoever. Kipala (talk) 19:22, 28 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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