Category talk:People by occupation

Renaming for clarification

The purpose of this category has been somewhat unclear, under its longstanding name "People". I'm therefore preparing to rename it to "People by occupation". Discussion at WN:Water cooler/proposals#Cat people. --Pi zero (talk) 01:32, 2 April 2016 (UTC)

Old style interwiki links?

Hi Ericliu1912. I rolled back your previous edit because it was your first edit here at en.WN and the edit summary of 'wikidata' did not sufficiently explain the edit for me to understand it wasn't vandalism. I now see you are active on other projects, including zh.WN.

Regarding this diff[1], what is the new style of interwiki links we should be using and why aren't you updating existing links instead of simply removing them? Thank you. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 16:21, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

@Michael.C.Wright: Since 2013, Wikidata centralized all interlanguage link, thus making the old style deprecated, and it should no longer be needed to manually add a link. Meanwhile, Idk why "enwn does not get rid of iwls even if wikidata is handling it", and I see no reason to do so, but OK then. —— Eric Liu_{（留言．百科用戶頁）} 16:53, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Still I think it's correct to remove certain inaccuracies. —— Eric Liu_{（留言．百科用戶頁）} 16:57, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

The diff you linked to was not mine, but @Acagastya's so I'll ping them in case they would like to jump into the conversation (it would be welcomed), as they have more of the history here than I do and they are an admin.

Regarding the new, centralized way of interlanguage linking, which is not the same as interwiki linking[2], is this diff[3] the correct way to link interlanguage pages? It seems to provide the link to de.WN in the "Languages" list for the category/page even after I removed our "old style" link.

If that is the correct way, why aren't you updating the Wikidata items on en.WN pages according to the links you are removing? I'm trying to both understand the correct way this should be done and also ask that you not reduce the functionality we currently have on a given page. If you look at the version of our page immediately after your removal of the links, we lost the link to de.WN[4]. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 21:29, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

@Michael.C.Wright just to clarify, enwn preserves accurate IWLs, regardless of the status of wikidata + if there are inaccuracies, they need to be fixed, but we don't disregard IWLs. •–• 02:10, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks. I'll be sure to preserve accurate IWL moving forward. Hopefully @Ericliu1912 will now as well.

Do these links provide any other functionality beyond the interlanguage links? I'm not able to see where or how else the article links to de.WN (but I was also not aware of the "Languages" section to the left and how it worked either).

To ask another way; if the interlanguage links are the only functionality these links provide, we can preserve them while updating how they are used, i.e., using wikidata, correct? Is there any other link to de.WN that isn't currently working? I've removed the old style link to de.WN and replaced it with the new style; using wikidata. —Michael.C.Wright (^Talk/_Published) 13:46, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

I did intend to just remove the redundant (with WD item) links at that point, so if I accidentally removed other effective links (eg. dewikinews?) as well, then I'd definitively like to apologize about that. —— Eric Liu_{（留言．百科用戶頁）} 14:32, 13 September 2024 (UTC)