[Data-modeling] Wikipedia disambiguation pages

[Brian Karlak]

Just a few examples to start would be great, thanks.  If there's a  
pattern, it should be obvious pretty quickly.

Brian

On Mar 10, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Tom Morris wrote:

> Thanks for the reply Brian.  I see tons of them.  How 'bout I open a
> Jira bug report and append batches of them as I come across them?
> Will that work for you guys?
>
> Tom
>
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Brian Karlak <zenkat at metaweb.com>  
> wrote:
>>
>> 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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