User talk:Epìdosis

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Q61770785

Ciao carissimo, come stai? Spero bene. :) Ti scrivo perché in base a questo mio edit su it.wiki e a questo mio edit su wdata, penso sia possibile cancellare Q61770785. Fammi sapere. Buon anno e buon tutto! Pequod76 (talk) 19:46, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

@Pequod76: certamente,  Done! Buon anno anche a te! Epìdosis 08:26, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Guillaume Bonjour

Hello, I'm actually working on Guillaume Bonjour on the WPfr. I did some edit on the wikidata and you revoked them. Those edits are directly linked to the main sources used for the work which are academic, and quite recent (2012 to 2025). The BNF data are wrong, based on the data from a book of the XIXth century.

Why did you withdraw the link to the WPfr item ? Nanoyo88 (talk) 21:10, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

@Nanoyo88: hi, the removal of the sitelink to fr.wikipedia was a mistake (since I used rollback, it was also included in the undoing of the other two edits), I restored it; for the other two edits, I undid because you changed the value without changing the references; if BNF is wrong, the best way to say it in Wikidata is leaving these values as they are (at least until BNF changes them) and adding your new values with their references and preferred rank. If you have any questions, of course ask! Best, Epìdosis 21:14, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

I didn't knew the preferred rank system. Quite noob in wikidata. Thanks ;) Nanoyo88 (talk) 21:15, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

I tried my best. I'm not sure if it's good. i don't know how to insert ref in wikidata. Nanoyo88 (talk) 21:24, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

@Nanoyo88: thanks, now it is OK; about references you can also have a look at Help:Sources. Epìdosis 21:29, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Profeti biblici

Ciao caro, ti chiedo un'altra cancellazione. Ho svuotato i link alle voci di eo e it.wiki da Q3922604 (da cancellare) e li ho spostati in Q117190874. Ora il tema dei profeti biblici è raccordato (i due elementi erano doppioni). Pequod76 (talk) 00:00, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

@Pequod76: OK, qui farei una semplice unione reindirizzando l'elemento più nuovo al più antico:  Done. Epìdosis 09:59, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026

Hello! I noticed you're a bot operator, so I thought you might be interested in a hackathon we're organizing: the Wikimedia Hackathon Northwestern Europe 2026, on 13–14 March in Arnhem, Netherlands.

It's a two-day, technically oriented hackathon bringing together Wikimedians from the region. Whether you want to work on bot frameworks, tools, or other technical projects, this could be a great opportunity to collaborate with fellow developers. Registration closes mid-January or when full. Let me know if there are any questions. Hope to see you there! Daanvr (talk) 23:18, 11 January 2026 (UTC)

@Daanvr: hi, thanks for the message! I think I will not be able to make it, this is a very busy year ... but maybe the international one in Milano! Best, Epìdosis 08:56, 12 January 2026 (UTC)

Sabei

Egregio, torno a disturbarti per un'altra cancellazione. In base a questo edit su it.wiki (ho trasformato uno stub senza interlink in un redirect ad una voce adeguata) e al conseguente edit qui su Data, ti chiedo la cancellazione di Q15582355... O redirect, vedi tu :D

Un salutone. Pequod76 (talk) 01:04, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Ah, l'elemento ok, se vuoi procedere di redirect, è Q940785. :) Pequod76 (talk) 01:05, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

In questi casi meglio redirect:  Done! Epìdosis 07:11, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Доцент and профессор

Hello, it seems that you've done a massive error batch... I don't know what language did you use (Italian?) but in Russia the system is following. There are 3 different sets: academic rank (Q486983), position (Q4164871) and academic degree (Q189533) (such as different types of Candidate of Sciences (Q737462) and Doctor of Sciences (Q2628227)). And none of them fit occupation (Q12737077). Common academic rank (Q486983) used in Russia: доцент and профессор. These are titles which are earned by some burocratic procedure in federal ministry and usually held forever. There are similar position (Q4164871): доцент and профессор but they are temporary and depend rather on HR department of local university. Then, Q85859833 and Q101566501 are formally independent of each other and a person can have a title of "профессор" but works in a position of "доцент" and vice versa. Moreover person with a title even can be jobless at present (doesn't have a position and occupation at a moment). So, in conclusion, mass replacements like [1] are completely wrong (note also, that you remove a source here) and should be reverted. Please do it yourself. P.S. some Russians also mix titles and positions (and corresponding items), so P803 value can be not exact, but replacing it with P106 is complete nonsense. Infovarius (talk) 20:55, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Hi @Infovarius:, thanks very much for the undoes and for writing me, your explanation is very helpful (yes, I use Wikidata in Italian and I always try also to look at English and the other European languages I understand better, i.e. French German and some Spanish); I had already started undoing https://editgroups.toolforge.org/b/QSv2T/1768385411353/ which is now completed (as you noticed, this was also wrong because I removed, among others, many referenced statements, which was not intended); also https://editgroups.toolforge.org/b/QSv2T/1768385363704/ is now completely undone. The biggest batch was https://editgroups.toolforge.org/b/QSv2T/1768385142758/edits/ substituting unreferenced occurrences of professorship (P803)professor (Q121594) with occupation (P106)university teacher (Q1622272); if I understand correctly, professor (Q121594) is used as a position (not a title), so the person was actually at some time a university teacher and the substitution with occupation (P106) is reasonable; but if I am wrong, please correct me and I will of course undo also 1768385142758.

Now let me explain why I did these substitutions: looking at professorship (P803), I noticed the following strange thing: the examples refer to specific chairs (Lucasian Professor of Mathematics (Q865664) Boeing-Johnson Chair (Q101001104)), as well as the link to en:Category:Professorships by subject; however, looking at the most used values for this property, I noticed that among them there were unexpected ones like full professor (Q25339110) (now 6220 usages), professor (Q121594) (now 3228 usages), docent (Q462390) (now 1764 usages). I think these values, and in general all those not being a chair (Q1363750) (https://w.wiki/HUjC lists presently 600 values), should be moved away to other more appropriate properties, but my choice to put some of them directly into occupation (P106) was evidently not enough well-planned and documented, so I think together we can find a much better solution. Let me articulate a detailed plan in the next message tomorrow; I am also fixing manually now a lot of easy mistakes. In the meanwhile, could you have a look at the 18 items listed in https://w.wiki/HUjb? Thanks very much, sorry for my wrong edits and good night, Epìdosis 21:56, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

I revert also https://editgroups.toolforge.org/b/QSv2T/1768385142758/ per w:ru:Википедия:Форум/Викиданные#Профессоры. Epìdosis 22:48, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

@Infovarius: I need a few more days to cleanup Wikidata:Database reports/Constraint violations/P803; after that I will post my proposal for migrating most of P803 to other properties in Property talk:P803 to collect feedback and improvements. Best, Epìdosis 18:12, 16 January 2026 (UTC)

Lesbonatte

Ciao, sto provando a capire chi sone i varie Lesbonatte tra IdRef e Wikidata.

1. IdRef 033936498, autore del De figuris grammaticis ; questo e certamente Lesbonax (Q11931782): ancient Greek grammarian = RE Lesbonax 2 ; le opere retoriche in IdRef sono probabilmente di omonimi
2. IdRef 07067437X, originato per Oratorum Graecorum volumen octavum tenens reliquias Lesbonactis prima e poi Lesbonactis Sophistae quae supersunt, 1907 ; e probabilmente Lesbonax (Q1129405): Greek rhetor = RE Lesbonax 3
3. IdRef 26215465X, originato per Oratores Attici ex recensione Immanuelis Bekkeri ; probabilmente anche lui Lesbonax (Q1129405): Greek rhetor = RE Lesbonax 3

Tuttavia, questo'ultimo IdRef e Lesbonax (Q1129405): Greek rhetor sono confusi con RE Lesbonax 1, in la loro qualità di padre di Potamone. Da questo penso non ci sone ricordi bibliograifci pertinenti in IdRef. Mi potresti confirmare quest'analisi e eventualemente creare Lesbonax 1? Grazie, --Thomas Kerboul (BGE) (talk) 14:25, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

@Thomas Kerboul (BGE): confermo, e ho creato Lesbonax of Mytilene (Q137823238): ancient Greek philosopher per il filosofo; il DGRBM identificava il filosofo padre di Potamone e il retore, ma già la Britannica 1911 li considerava distinti. Neanche io vedo record bibliografici del filosofo ovviamente, tutte le sue opere sono perdute. A presto e grazie! Epìdosis 14:53, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Ottimo, fusi ! --Thomas Kerboul (BGE) (talk) 16:01, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Anno di nascita e morte in descrizione

Domanda: quando trovo anno di nascita e/o morte in descrizione, sono da rimuovere? Esempio. Chiedo perché questi dati sono di norma espressi altrove, attraverso property... Pequod76 (talk) 18:48, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Ciao @Pequod76:, avviai qualche anno fa una RfC in merito (Wikidata:Requests for comment/Use of dates in the descriptions of items regarding humans) perché c'erano pareri un po' contrastanti; la conclusione è stata "dates (not necessarily birth/death, can be just approximate) can be added when they help to disambiguate items; dates should not be removed from descriptions even if not needed for disambiguation (unless there is some other reason for the change; for example if the dates are incorrect)". Epìdosis 20:09, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Ok, prendo atto. Grazie. ;) Pequod76 (talk) 21:48, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Items created based on undifferentiated identifier value

@Kolja21: thanks for the reports, I have slightly edited the query (https://qlever.dev/wikidata/S0RjUQ) to also show the number of IDs in the item. A few comments about the not-undifferentiated ones:

•  Doing… Kristian Leschner (Q55443142): IMHO the second GND could be undeprecated and the duplication could be reported
  • Already reported to Filmportal. --Kolja21 (talk) 04:20, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
• Paolo Giordano Orsini (Q94934019): cf. de:Wikipedia:GND/Fehlermeldung/Oktober 2022/Rückmeldung (September 2025) but still wrong
•  Doing… Romain Berger (Q95783675): to be rechecked, "Roman" seems a wrong spelling
  • I informed Filmportal and reported the wrong linked title by Romain Berger (Q31797762): Walloon language teacher, cf. de:Wikipedia:GND/Fehlermeldung/Mai 2025. --Kolja21 (talk) 04:20, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
• Alfred Pichler (Q124249776): unsure about conflation
• Elizabeth Grant (Q19282048): could be reported
• Carl Stern (Q95291648): maybe just duplicates, but the reference to the University of Berlin in the first is dubious
• Eugen Pander (Q113793625): unsure about conflation

Regarding the undifferentiated, which are the majority: in cases like István Kruspér (Q1121415) probably they can just be removed; in others, like the ones below when the item was born from the undifferentiated ID, I would say that if a merge on the basis of the works connected to the ID is sure or almost sure, then it is the best solution; if not, just report me and I will delete. --Epìdosis 04:57, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I will check the list. --Kolja21 (talk) 17:21, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Franz Xaver Kislinger

What should we do with items created based on undifferentiated identifier value? Example: Franz Xaver Kislinger (Q94842183).

• Incrementa ... ducatus Styriae sub dominatu domus Habspurgico-Austriacae (etc.) (1737)
• Panegyricus Divo Joanni Evangelistae (1746)

Maybe identical with VIAF:11165446441426830463. --Kolja21 (talk) 22:33, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

@Kolja21: this is surely Franz Xaver Kislinger (Q94526746) according to the works, merged. Epìdosis 04:04, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

Markus Nonnenmacher

Next case: Marek Nonnenmacher (Q94868322). Merge with Marek Nonnenmacher (Q15626917): German cabinet maker or delete? Both would be ok for me. --Kolja21 (talk) 22:38, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

PS: There are more cases like these. Based on a query from you I used ICUgcb. --Kolja21 (talk) 22:42, 19 January 2026 (UTC)

Merged into Marek Nonnenmacher (Q15626917), it seems the only hypothesis. Epìdosis 04:06, 20 January 2026 (UTC)