| • Glorian_Yapinus | |
| Oct 14 2016, 12:27 PM |
I used the random primary source feature and it lead me to "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1063785". The Primary Source tool suggest that the person is a singer but it doesn't provide any sources for the claim.
It also does the same with claims about her having a degree at "Sonoda Women's University" and residence in Kōbe and Takarazuka.
Without a claim there no way for a user of the primary sources tool to verify whether it works correctly and the user should approve the claim.
Imported primary sources tool issue from GitHub: https://github.com/Wikidata/primarysources/issues/117
I totally agree, but I think this should be handled at the dataset level, not at the tool level.
In other words, the issue is caused by the Freebase datasets having lots of blacklisted references, see T188712.
On the other hand, StrepHit guarantees at least one reference per statement.
For future datasets, I strongly believe that non-blacklisted references should be a hard requirement.
The so-called "Freebase" dataset is actually a mix of data from Freebase and a bunch of URLs that were pulled from Google web crawls by an intern as potential "evidence." They don't have anything to do with the provenance of the data that was in Freebase, which was recorded for every item of data that was written there. Of course it would be silly to suggest a blacklisted site, but I don't believe the intern was provided with a blacklist ahead of time and as the blacklist was developed after the fact it hasn't been used to filter what's presented to users.