User talk:Peter James

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Coordinates

Thank you for adding coordinates Wikidata items. However, the coordinates posted on Wikidata are sometimes shown on Wikipedia, whose Project:Manual of Style (Q4994848) requires rounding, lest they create false precision (Q3467464). In almost all cases, rounding to the arcsecond (Q829073) is the best practice. Using Geographic Names Information System (Q136736), which is notoriously inaccurate, as a data source is not good practice. Abductive (talk) 14:02, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

If there is a source I use the coordinates provided, and there is sometimes a reason for the precision. Some sources provide both decimal and DMS and one is converted from the other (particularly where precision of GNIS and GNS coordinates has not been improved) and sometimes one will have false precision but when using QuickStatements decimal is the only option. There's no reason to prefer DMS over decimal degrees, and because DMS is converted to decimal and stored with longer strings of numbers it increases the size of data and causes false precision in the Wikidata query service. If Wikipedia requires rounding, or DMS is preferred for some articles or countries, that can be done in Wikipedia. GNIS is better than no coordinates in most cases (territories in the Pacific Ocean may be exceptions), and many have been improved in recent years. Peter James (talk) 00:15, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Strange merge

Hi,

I'm curious: why did you merge Q96761545 with Abbey of Saint-Étienne, Caen (Q376932), it seems very strange. At least, I remove the aliases that were very wrong. I still think a deletion make more sense here.

Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 11:36, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The deletion request was on hold because of a link from another item. I found that was Abbaye-aux-hommes, Caen, France (Q96761487), a painting. I also checked for use in Commons or any other project but there was nothing. As it was only used in Q96761487 and was almost certainly created for that use, I merged it to the intended item. Peter James (talk) 12:06, 2 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, all good! Still strange - not sure how/why I missed the linked item - but legit, thank you. Cheers, VIGNERON (talk) 15:18, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]