Ngozi osadebe

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Best regards! Infrastruktur (talk) 11:55, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Your problematic edits

Hi,

There seems to be a lot of problems with your edits. For example books are not instance of (P31) scholarly article. Books do not have a location etc.

Please review your edits and try to refactor them. For the time being please refrain from adding new information and consult more experienced users to guide your future work in Wikidata. Kpjas (talk) 06:25, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

There is a lot of useful information on the help pages (I posted some links on the top of this talk page), but it also very useful to look at existing items and see how they are structured. Wikidata is a bit particular in how the data is entered. An example for books Macbeth (Q130283). If if something's still unclear, don't feel shy about asking in the project chat, I see you speak english, but there are also localized chats in other languages. Have a good day. Infrastruktur (talk) 12:12, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for the comment. I will correct them. However, I do believe that books do have a location. Otherwise, how can someone identify the book if he or she needs it or how do we know the source of the book? Ngozi osadebe (talk) 19:50, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

Individual exemplars of books have locations. You're of course welcome to add information on books into Wikidata, but information that pertains to individual copies of the book belong in the local library's computer system. If this system allows adding arbitrary identifiers, then Wikidata's QIDs can be added and the information can be linked in the two systems. Wikidata's items on books generally only carry information that is common for all exemplars of that book, and so there can be no singular location for a book.

Knowing that the university library in Nigeria has the book in their collection is no doubt useful for the local population of Nigeria, but this information is of little use to people living elsewhere. That said, some libraries do have their own Wikidata properties that link to items in their collection. I think this is more common where the library has additional relevant information on the book available online, or where it's not possible to search their collection using a standard identifier such as ISBN.

There are several librarians on Wikidata, they would know more about using Wikidata for books than I do, and I'm sure they wouldn't mind answering questions. Infrastruktur (talk) 08:12, 10 October 2023 (UTC)

Thank you so much for the interest and your efforts at correcting me. You are quite correct. In out meeting on the African growth project yesterday, I asked questions about this and it was clarified. You are right. Thank you so much again. I wil make amends this evening. Ngozi osadebe (talk) 11:54, 10 October 2023 (UTC)