[Data-modeling] Publishing Companies

[Shawn Simister]

Kirrily Robert wrote:
> On Dec 14, 2008, at 3:14 PM, evening0star wrote:
>
>   
>> I've tried cleaning up those cases also, and wondered what the best
>> thing to do is.  I believe in most if not all cases these are people
>> from "long ago" where they could be a "self publisher" or an
>> entreprenuer publisher (or whatever).  Perhaps in those cases
>> Profession=Publisher is enough (or whatever else may be appropriate)?
>>
>> I agree that making the title more descriptive is good.  If it is
>> designed for just companies, then it should say so.
>>     
>
>
> Just because a type is included doesn't mean it's true in 100% of  
> cases.  For instance, take Film Actor, which includes Person, but the  
> dogs who played Lassie are Film Actors.
>
> Type inclusion isn't strict inheritance; if you're dealing with a  
> special case, like Thomas Caxton or Pal (http://www.freebase.com/view/authority/imdb/name/nm1306087 
> ) then you can manually remove the unneeded type.
>
> K.
>   
Hmm,  I didn't know that that was an expected use of the included types. 
I'd always figured that they where kinda like mixins and if you just 
removed an included class it would get added back in by a bot later. I 
guess we'll just have to continue cleaning these up by hand for now.

S.
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