User story:
When using Special:MergeItems to merge two Wikidata Items, if ItemA has a statement X with one or more qualifiers and ItemB has the same statement X without qualifiers and references, the two statements are kept separate in the merged Item.
Problem:
After merging such cases, I had to manually remove the statement that lacked qualifiers and references.
Steps to replicate the issue (include links if applicable):
- Go to Test Wikidata
- Create ItemA and add statement X with 1+ qualifier(s).
- Create ItemB and add statement X without qualifiers and references.
- Use the Special:MergeItems to merge ItemA and ItemB.
- Observe that the two statements for X are kept separate in the merged Item
Example:
In this edit, the statement for GND ID (P227) with value 1057744190 was duplicated after merging.
What should have happened instead?:
The statement without qualifiers and references should be considered a duplicate of the statement with qualifiers and automatically removed during the merge process.
Previous discussion:
See discussion on Wikidata:Report a technical problem#Improvement in merge gadget to avoid data duplication