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Wikidata:Property proposal/name translation

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name translation

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

   Not done
Descriptiontranslation into native language
Data typeItem
Domainhuman (Q5)
Example 1Charles III (Q43274)name translationQ134582670
Example 2Charles III (Q43274)name translationCarl (Q2529610)
  • applies to part (P518)→Charles (Q2958359)
  • language of work or name (P407)→Russian (Q7737)
  • start time (P580)→2023-05-06
    • Example 3Charles III (Q43274)name translationKarolos (Q59206706)
  • applies to part (P518)→Charles (Q2958359)
  • language of work or name (P407)→Greek (Q9129)
    • Example 4Charles III (Q43274)name translationArtur (Q4801582)
  • applies to part (P518)→Arthur (Q1778168)
  • language of work or name (P407)→Russian (Q7737)
    • Example 5Arthur Rimbaud (Q493)name translationАртюр (need new entity)
  • applies to part (P518)→Arthur (Q1778168)
  • language of work or name (P407)→Russian (Q7737)
    • Example 6Jan Shepard (Q15303627)name translationЖан (need new entity)
  • applies to part (P518)→Jan (Q18220903)
  • language of work or name (P407)→Russian (Q7737)
    • Sourcehttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata_talk:WikiProject_Names#c-CupIvan-20250417220500-Different_translation_of_first_names_and_surnames_on_other_languages

    Motivation

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    There is no way to find out what specific name a person have. For example, Charles III (Q43274) is translate into Greek Κάρολος, into Russian in several ways - before the coronation Чарльз, after - Карл, but his real name Charles does not changing. In addition, he has several names and each of them can be translated differently. See Arthur, it depends on the specific person: for one person it is translate one way (Артур), for another - another way (Артюр). In order to choose one of the options, we need an extra property.

    The value of the property will be a specific entity (or a string in the native language?), and in the qualifiers we indicate which entity we are translating and additional translation fields.

    Here we can also specify translations into other languages, in which it is necessary to eliminate ambiguity.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by CupIvan (talk • contribs) at 20:30, May 26, 2025 (UTC).

    Discussion

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