[Data-modeling] Wikipedia disambiguation pages

[Brian Karlak]

Hello Tom --

Disambiguation pages are not supposed to be included in Freebase.  We  
strip out articles with the WikiMedia {{disamb}} template, as well  
that those that have "(disambiguation)" in their titles, before we  
create topics.

Are there specific examples of disambiguation pages that you are  
currently seeing?  If so, please let us know so we can clean them up.

Thanks,
Brian

On Mar 7, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Tom Morris wrote:

> This is not a pure data modeling topic, but hopefully it's close  
> enough.
>
> Is there information value in keeping topics derived from Wikipedia
> disambiguation pages in the database?
>
>> From my point of view, they seem to be more trouble than their worth
> since they provide the opportunity for users to pick the
> disambiguation page itself instead of the correct topic.  Although
> they might theoretically have some value in being able to trace things
> back to WP, I've never seen this be useful in practice.
>
> Can we just get all the disambiguation page topics deleted in a mass  
> purge?
>
> Tom
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