User talk:Adam Anderson
Creating Accounts
Hi Adam, just briefly a word about account names. We usually take the name as people would use it on a publication. It can have middle names or the initial of a middle name (with a dot) and it will have blanks (or dashes) between the components.
I also create Database objects for anyone on the database. This is the list:
The database objects are useful since we allow people to connect statements to their persons - like in an "autopsy" Statement: "I have seen this unique document in a private collection". in this case they will user their personal Database object to refer to. Creating the database items for the participants takes more time than to open an account - accounts are generated (as you have seen) in a matter of seconds on the create account menu. --Olaf Simons (talk) 20:10, 18 May 2021 (CEST)
Iberian Places
Just briefly. It looks as is Wikidata has unnecessary objects which we can/should filter out by focusing on the INA IDs - bt which to keep? the lower numbers of two with the same municipality code, so it seems. Let me clean that list before we do the input, since we will have some stupid matching problems otherwise. (The French places were easier to run a clean input...) --Olaf Simons (talk) 00:51, 27 September 2021 (CEST)
Akkadian language
The general terms human, place etc. might be better preserved in English. You will want names and particular professions and positions in Akkadian and explained in English - so the Akkadian place name and the English answer instance of place. Test a handful of people, particular hierarchical positions, and historical places to get the interesting reading. --Olaf Simons (talk) 23:03, 5 October 2021 (CEST)
- https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Help:Monolingual_text_languages how to get more languages for monolingual texts.
VIAF
Hi Adam, is http://www.viaf.org/viaf/7349082/#Anderson,_Adam_L._1978- your authority file? It is from Brigham Young University 2004, but another middle initial...--Martin Gollasch (talk) 11:47, 6 October 2021 (CEST)
- on second thought - another one... --Olaf Simons (talk) 12:36, 6 October 2021 (CEST)
Hi Martin, that's not me. For better or worse, there are many homonyms for Adam Anderson. --Adam Anderson (talk) 11:14, 31 March 2023 (EST)
I see you managed
...and I am back to life with new loads on my shoulders. --Olaf Simons (talk) 17:07, 31 March 2023 (CEST)
- Here a sample letter Item:Q3829 --Olaf Simons (talk) 23:07, 31 March 2023 (CEST)
Q500000
as a female bio with several links is a good topic for our social media channels as an "item milestone" of FactGrid and a preview of your project. Perhaps with two maps: the ancient sites and the places of world wide storage today... what do you think, Adam?--Martin Gollasch (talk) 08:54, 5 April 2023 (CEST)
yes, that sounds like a good idea to me. I have finished added all the ancient sites (where cuneiform inscriptions have been located), but I still need to add the museums where they are currently stored today. If I understand you right, Martin, would that get us the two maps you mentioned?
- if all the museums have coordinates, yes. I did the Vorderasiatisches in Berlin for you today... And is there a picture of a cuneiform related to Q500000 at Commons or can it be provided under proper license?--Martin Gollasch (talk) 18:05, 5 April 2023 (CEST)
- Item for "Administrative tablet" for P2-use in BIN 4, 10 (Q499882) ?--Martin Gollasch (talk) 18:17, 5 April 2023 (CEST)
- Item for "Letter tablet" in ICK 4 - I 437 (Q499899) --Martin Gollasch (talk) 18:20, 5 April 2023 (CEST)
- Is Lamassī (Q506672) the mother of the 5 children of her husband?--Martin Gollasch (talk) 18:45, 5 April 2023 (CEST)