[Data-modeling] Which universe is that human from?

[Jeff Fry]

There's been conversation before about how confusing it can be that 
there are many 
<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f8000000000b003f6> 
human 
<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000025e3ad> 
topics 
<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000002c0fb0>, 
most tied to different universes, and one 
<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/en/human> tragically tethered in our 
non-fictional universe. Some likely merit it - Humans in the Star Wars 
and the Dungeons & Dragons universes might well have different 
properties, and certainly link to different Wikipedia articles.

The topic for our own non-fictional species is the first one in 
relevance searches, and so many fictional characters (Marcie 
<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/marcie>, Spider-Man 
<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/en/spider-man>, Nancy Drew 
<http://qa.sfo1.metaweb.com/view/en/nancy_drew>, etc.) are all linked 
back to this topic. To make things a bit sillier, someone noted that the 
Human Character Species is found in the Firefly fictional universe...and 
so now Ron Weasley, Captain Nemo, and Indiana Jones may well be caught 
in a crossfire between the Anglo-Sino Alliance and the Reavers.

Cleanup is certainly needed, but I'm not really clear what the model is 
at this point? Does every universe need it's own Human topic? Probably 
not. If they don't, should those that don't have their own topic cluster 
around the topic for the non-fictional species? Or around a generic 
fictional human topic? And either way, should that topic list all or 
none of the universes it belongs to? If all, then we might need to stop 
having the Species property on Fictional Character list Universes that 
contain it as a disambiguator.

What do you think?
Jeff
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