User talk:Ecelan

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Best regards! Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 11:25, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please merge instead of blanking

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Information icon Thank you for your work in maintaining Wikidata. I have a small suggestion to improve your future work. If you notice that two items are duplicates, please merge them instead of blanking one of them as you did with the page Q16272118. External sites use Wikidata identifiers, so it is important that we preserve the chain of references. We do this by making one item a redirect for the other. In particular, item ids are intended to be a permanent identifier, so we never reuse them for another concept. See Help:Merge for more information on how to merge items, and consider installing the Merge Gadget. Thanks! Bovlb (talk) 23:24, 12 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Merge was not working, so I decided doing it like this. --Ecelan (talk) 07:59, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Could you please explain these edits 1, 2 and 3? Deleting sourced statements and interwikis need at least an explanation. FogueraC (talk) 19:16, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, the interwiki was wrong. But the source of the statements was not the interwiki, but the GEM id, that was correctly matched. FogueraC (talk) 19:27, 14 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]