Topic on User talk:GerardM

It would be great of you could get off my case and stop being a griefer, Gerard.

I spend a lot of time adding new items for en wikipedia articles on humans. To do so, it is necessary to search for items having the same name. Pretty much all such searches will pull up one or several ORCID person items. Because these have no descriptions, it is necessary to waste time inspecting each of them to find out they are not the footballer/politician/whatever that you're searchig for. Adding descriptions including the ORCID ID provides a means of disambiguating this item from that item, without having to waste time calling up the full item. Clearly this is more useful than having a blank description. I should note, we all know that the form of description being added is suboptimal. If you want to replace the description WITH A BETTER DESCRIPTION that would be fine. But blanking the description out of some sort of petulance does not cut it. Please do not revert such edits; they are done with a useful purpose.

Hell no. I understand why you add these descriptions and I completely disagree with this practice. A person is not to be identified with an identifier, not ORCID or any other. The solution that works splendidly is in place, it works for me and it is in automated descriptions.

So yes, there are better descriptions obviating the nonsense that you put in place.

Given my position on this, I added this as a subject on the chat.