User talk:TheAmerikaner

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Best regards! MisterSynergy (talk) 18:13, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

New items

I saw that you are constantly creating new items, many of which look very useful indeed. However, there are some which do not provide enough information to clearly identify the entities that they should describe. Could you please always make sure that your newly created items either have sitelinks, or defining statements and, if ever possible, external identifiers? In case of questions feel free to ask. Regards! MisterSynergy (talk) 18:13, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy: This whole stuff should be moved to the talk page. Steak (talk) 19:13, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Done, thanks @Steak and sorry for the trouble, TheAmerikaner. —MisterSynergy (talk) 19:16, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

@MisterSynergy: Thanks for the note. In the future I will pay attention. Could you give me an example where the data object is not clearly described? Thank you and best regards. --TheAmerikaner (talk) 19:21, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

Q30141883 for instance. —MisterSynergy (talk) 19:27, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

I have created this data object, as I have not yet known that there is a duplication of Karel Hoffmann (Q12028247). The data object I created can be deleted. I'm sorry I did not take care before. Best regards. --TheAmerikaner (talk) 04:21, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Oh I see. You can either use the Merge gadget and merge it into the duplicate by yourself, or use the Request deletion gadget to nominate it for immediate deletion.

But don’t worry about this, we have plenty of accidental duplicates, something like this happens a lot in fact. Thanks for your work! —MisterSynergy (talk) 04:43, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for your quick response. If something like this happens again, I can use the two tools. Best greetings from Germany. --TheAmerikaner (talk) 04:47, 7 June 2017 (UTC)