Here is a concrete example of people gaming the system using extra spaces.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Using_spaces_to_circumvent_uniqueness_constraints.

Can this idea be triaged?

Additional info for the team: It's not great for data quality because it circumvents our duplicate checks (no two Items with the same label and description in a given language).

In T250553#11074854, @Vicarage wrote:

Here is a concrete example of people gaming the system using extra spaces.

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat#Using_spaces_to_circumvent_uniqueness_constraints.

Can this idea be triaged?

The linked conversation has been archived, so that link no longer works. It can now be found here:
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Project_chat/Archive/2025/08#h-Using_spaces_to_circumvent_uniqueness_constraints-20250810212300