Help talk:Modelling/Other domains

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User:Jmabel - it should be Help:Modelling/By domain. The term after the "by" in singular. 2.243.72.218 08:00, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That would be my preference as well, as a speaker of American English. I was sticking with language that had stood unchanged in Help:Modelling for about 5 years. I was guessing it was British usage I was unfamiliar with (the spelling "modelling" is certainly British, as is the heading "Maths" elsewhrse on the page).
Can anyone weigh in and say definitively that this is not UK English, either, and we should make this change? - Jmabel (talk) 16:59, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It is singular all over Wikimedia, no evidence that has anything to do with US vs GB English
  1. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=&search=category+by+country&title=Special:Search&go=Go
  2. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=&search=category+by+location&title=Special:Search&go=Go
  3. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=&search=category+by+composer&title=Special:Search&go=Go
2.243.72.218 20:34, 9 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

OK, then, moving this puppy. - Jmabel (talk) 04:11, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Split this page?[edit]

@Jmabel: The bottom half of this page is not loading for me; maybe this page could be split into pages per topic? Jc86035 (talk) 06:10, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

  1. The page isn't all that long. With templates fully expanded, it clocks in around 40K characters. This doesn't even exceed the limit for a Facebook status!
    • What device and browser are you on?
  2. Splitting every section to a different page would be excessive, and would make navigation difficult. Some of the sections are very short.
  3. That said, we could split out the section Help:Modelling/By domain#Wikipedia and Wikimedia concepts, which is almost a quarter of the page, and maybe Help:Modelling/By domain#Man made stuff. Would that help? (Please ping me if you respond, I don't maintain a watchlist on Wikidata.) - Jmabel (talk) 15:02, 18 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: Try appending ?uselang=en-gb or ?uselang=ro to the URL. Probably most editors who don't have their language set to English can't load the bottom half of the page. Jc86035 (talk) 04:12, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I see. It isn't that it doesn't load, but there are too many templates. Let me see what I can do breaking it up. -- Jmabel (talk) 04:46, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Jc86035: I've taken a shot at this: does it now work OK for you? - Jmabel (talk) 05:14, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Jmabel: Yes, it's fine now. Thanks.
Incidentally, should I be adding examples myself? I'd like to add one of adjacent station (P197), although I'm not sure if I'm using the qualifiers correctly (I've been adding different statements for time periods with different towards (P5051) qualifiers). Jc86035 (talk) 05:18, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Jc86035: If you have good, solid examples that would be a model for others to use, and you can't just point people to a WikiProject or such that already handles the matter, then, yes, please add them in an appropriate place here. - Jmabel (talk) 05:21, 19 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Splitting this page[edit]

Does anyone mind if I split this into two tabs, one for People (people, occupations, employers, etc.) and one for Made objects (or a better name?) Or maybe even a separate third tab for Built environment, which needs expanding? - PKM (talk) 21:22, 17 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Place entities[edit]

Would anyone who knows more about Place entities expand the guidance on this section?

I was looking for instructions on places or countries which have changed the name as a result of a change in the government, and whether in this situation there is the same single entity, or two entities--original one for the old name, and a new one for the new place name under the new government. Some examples: Ceylon & Sri Lanka; Republic of China & People's Republic of China; British Hong Kong & Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

And, in qualifying other topics, does it matter which place name to use, or should we use both place names as the qualifiers if the other topics are associated to this place at the periods of both governments? Iansocw (talk) 05:12, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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