<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This suggestion is a good one and would probably help. This, along with Robert's idea for cleanup, are enhancements that we will definitely consider for an upcoming release.<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>In general I'd like to avoid adding a confirmation step into the flow. We want to make it as easy as possible for people to contribute data and add types to topics in the system. I think this thread has highlighted the need for better tools to correct mistakes, but I don't think the general input case should be made more complex. If 9 out of 10 people are applying types correctly using the current UI, I'd rather not have everyone have to click a confirmation button after each edit to prevent that 10% case (the error rate is almost certainly much lower). With respect to the case referenced earlier this thread, its certainly possible that zip codes can be typed as people, but as with Wikipedia we hope that the community will quickly find and correct obvious data errors like this. <div><br><div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2007, at 12:43 PM, Daniel Renfer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">How about (if possible) making it blatantly obvious that the Topic being selected has already been typed the appropriate type and de-emphasizing the other Topics that match the search, but have not yet been given the expected type. Even just moving that type to the beginning of the list of types and bolding it would help.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Robert Cook wrote:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">> This is my philosophy as well: Default to very open input in the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">> spirit of Wikipedia rather than that of a strict database.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">> Regarding the particular problem that was frustrating Arthur, I think</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">> there might be a simple solution we could incorporate into the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">> Freebase application. If a user removes a property value and he had</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">> created that property himself and the referenced topic (the topic on</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">> the other side of the link) was typed at the same time, then detype </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">> that referenced topic.</font></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>