Quotation Subject

Golf: Championships

2008-08-19T15:47:42.0032Z

I added his Masters Tournament wins in here. As a result, he was typed as a sports team. Is there a better way to enter in individual sports championships?

United States: Removed "Official Language" and Liberty Dollar as form of Currency

2008-07-03T16:55:01.0005Z

Removed "Official Language" as per Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_United_States

Removed "Liberty Dollar" as it is not a currency in itself, but rather a unit of currency.

United States: Liberty Dollar

2008-06-27T16:52:19.0005Z

I don't know that this can be rightfully linked as a form of currency inside the US as it is not recognized by the Federal government.

By the same token, the United States has no official language, although English is the predominant language.

Strategy: strategy as a game genre

2008-06-26T11:22:01.0005Z

The games links should possibly be split off to http://freebase.com/view/en/strategy_game

Writer: Types of writers

2008-06-17T00:53:17.0007Z

I guess a "genres written" property on the Author type could be useful for some users but is maybe more appropriate on a less general author type. For example, do scholarly articles have a genre other than scholarly article? If not, why do all users entering data into the Author type need to consider "genres written" add possibly add redundant/inconsistent data? Similar to subject, it seems to me like this information would be best pulled from written work or a special case co-type of written work rather than the author.

Writer: Types of writers

2008-06-16T23:50:49.0007Z

I think that regardless of whether there's a property on "author" for "genres" (I'm tending to agree that "subjects" is going to be less useful), people may still fill in "profession" with values like "spy fiction writer", and they should be allowed to do so (not that anybody could prevent them if they wanted to). So the question for me is not "should a 'genres' property on the Author type replace this use of the 'profession' property", which I think is what the original post suggests, but "is a 'genres' property on the Author type useful in and of itself?"

Writer: Types of writers

2008-06-16T18:57:45.0007Z

IMO "Spy fiction writer" depends on the definition employed by the user. Why should that defintion be set by a schema, unless a particular user or group of users has a specific need? In that case, a spy_fiction_writer schema sounds appropriate to me.

I agree about the two properties: subject and genre. One is about content the other is about style.

"Subjects written about" should probably be pulled from the written works, not the writer.

Writer: Types of writers

2008-06-16T18:41:14.0007Z

This sounds like two properties to me -- one for subject, and one for genre. I.e., John le Carre doesn't particularly write about spy fiction (he has, but only in short subjects) so much as he writes in the genre of spy fiction. Someone who's published books about, say, Cold War thrillers or the James Bond franchise, however, could be said to write about spy fiction. The question I have is: how valuable is this proposed property? It would be something of a denormalization of the genre/subject properties of the author's written works. I.e., there would be two ways to get a list of "spy fiction writers" -- from the proposed "genres" property on the Author type, and from the "genre" property on every work the author has written (and probably from the professions property as well, since somebody apparently thinks that's a useful way to describe this information as well). All of these would probably generate different results.

But then, I could see an argument that someone who's only written one spy novel, but a bunch of novels in other genres, wouldn't necessarily be considered a "spy fiction writer", any more than someone might consider Margaret Atwood to be a children's author, even though she's published at least one children's book.

Just throwing a bunch of thoughts out there, and seeing if anything sticks....

Writer: Types of writers

2008-06-15T06:30:46.0007Z

agree

Literature: Merge with the other "Literature" instance

2008-06-10T09:29:54.0012Z

Duplicate of Literature. Merge please.

Retirement: Not really a profession

2008-05-29T22:01:30.0005Z

Retirement isn't really a profession. The profession type should be used for the actual fields or occupations a person worked in during his or her working life.

Love: Don't merge

2008-05-20T00:06:11.0005Z

with "Romantic Love"; the type of love referred to in the quote is not necessarily romantic in nature.

Hospitality: Individual hotels

2008-01-30T07:34:39.0012Z

How about a property to link individual hotels owned by the hospitality companies?

Color: Color as a type

2007-12-10T20:15:51.0007Z

Sounds good. I'll try this out on sandbox and post a note for review. While I'm at it, I'll add a property for "hex triplet" too. For anyone else reading this post, the color type is at http://www.freebase.com/view/visual_art/color.

Color: Color as a type

2007-12-09T06:40:12.0012Z

This should probably be a type with properties that include wavelength, rgb values, etc.

Writer: Types of writers

2007-06-15T20:28:39.0011Z

Why have separate types for professions like "Spy fiction writer" and "Science writer" (which have no interesting properties anyway). Wouldn't a "Subjects written about" property be better?