User talk:Thuresson
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Best regards! Jon Harald Søby (talk) 22:36, 9 October 2017 (UTC)
Swedish translations[edit]
Swedish translations of English literary works should be placed on their own data items, like this one: Dr Jekyll och Mr Hyde (Q59025702).
There must be a separate data item because each edition or translation will have its own data for language, date, translator, etc. --EncycloPetey (talk) 00:55, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
Please merge instead of blanking[edit]
Thank you for your work in maintaining Wikidata. I have a small suggestion to improve your future work. If you notice that two items are duplicates, please merge them instead of blanking one of them as you did with the page Q65307873. External sites use Wikidata identifiers, so it is important that we preserve the chain of references. We do this by making one item a redirect for the other. In particular, item ids are intended to be a permanent identifier, so we never reuse them for another concept. See Help:Merge for more information on how to merge items, and consider installing the Merge Gadget. Thanks! Bovlb (talk) 17:16, 23 June 2020 (UTC)