Timmy Finnegan
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Best regards! —MisterSynergy (talk) 08:44, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
Q6511
editHi, in answer to your question, it's because unlike Wikipedia, on Wikidata the disambiguation information belongs in the description, not the label. See Help:Label for more information. --Canley (talk) 22:41, 3 February 2017 (UTC)
- Great work on the Ulysses items by the way, I love it! --Canley (talk) 08:49, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
- [revised] I'm feeling frustrated by conventions I don't understand. Parentheses in labels seem to cause them to be moved way down in popup menus? Why?? What about contexts where the descriptions don't display? (eg a list of Ulysses editions) Does everyone just shrug and do the extra searching? Timmy Finnegan (talk) 18:25, 4 February 2017 (UTC)
- The popup menu displays the term you typed in first, so if you type "Ulysses", all items with the label of only "Ulysses" will appear first, then the items with parentheses and other words in the label. I think after that they are sorted by the Wikidata ID number, so in order added. Yes, it's frustrating if there is no description, so I always add them if I see they are missing. You can also add versions with disambiguators in the alternate label which makes it easier to search using the popup menu, so I usually put the exact Wikipedia title such as "Ulysses (novel)" in the AKA label, especially where there are a lot of uses of the same label. --Canley (talk) 07:28, 5 February 2017 (UTC)