[Freebase-discuss] Draft definition of /government/politician

[Thad Guidry]

Now, my wife tells me, since she's Chinese, that we have our work cut out
for us however with typing this guy:
http://www.freebase.com/view/en/hongwu_emperor

<http://www.freebase.com/view/en/hongwu_emperor>who rose to power by
capturing the capital and appointing himself as emperor, or rather military
might.

So, to answer Jamie's question about any other co-types besides "elected
official", "appointed official", I think we will need one more to handle
Hongwu emperor.  Luckily, he appointed his grandson as successor, skipping
his direct children, to become the next emperor after him, so we can easily
type his grandson, Zhu Yunwen, as being an "appointed official", and a noble
person, which he already is http://www.freebase.com/view/en/jianwen_emperor

Thoughts what that next type should be for Hongwu emperor who stole power,
or militarily took it, or self appointed perhaps ?

-Thad

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Christopher R. Maden <crism at maden.org>wrote:

> Thad Guidry wrote:
> > So, Why not just have types for those terms then, "elected official" for
> one
> > type and then "appointed official" for the other ?
>
> I would be OK with this with the addition of “electoral candidate” or
> something similar.  I hear there are a couple three people who care
> about the notion that Al Gore ran for President.  Also, the Ralph Nader
> fans might throw bricks through the Metaweb office windows, and we can’t
> have that.
>
> ~Chris
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