Wine

United States: Merge

2008-08-05T00:32:00.0005Z

This topic should be merged to United States.

2005 Bedell Cellars "Artist Series" New York Chardonnay Blend: are these wines from new york city or new york state?

2008-07-25T05:14:27.0018Z

i haven't noticed any vineyards in manhattan recently. perhaps these got reconciled incorrectly to new york city instead of new york state?

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.

New York: I agree with deletion request

2008-07-03T02:38:41.0006Z

Officially the article should be "New York" or perhaps "The City of New York" but not New York, New York

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.

New York: The Official Name Is...

2008-06-20T17:13:59.0012Z

And Sting’s official name is Gordon Sumner.
We have discussed the notion of adding an “official name” or ”legal name” property to some topics, but for now, the display name of a topic should be its most commonly-used name. In particular, cities show up in address information frequently; no one addresses mail to The City of New York, NY 10021. I am changing it back and adding T.C.O.N.Y. as an alias.
Your point about verification is a good one. However, this open model seems to work acceptably for Wikipedia, and with our finer granularity of assertions and login requirement, we have better means for detecting and undoing abusive usage patterns. As with Wikipedia, I would encourage you to watch (subscribe to the RSS feed of) topics that particularly interest you.
Another approach used by some of our users is to perform QA on the topics of interest and note the last-known-good timestamp. Queries via the API can then be scoped to only return information older than the last QA check.
Thanks again for your many contributions.

New York: The Official Name Is...

2008-06-20T14:35:18.0006Z

The City Of New York not "New York." New York is an "aka." But I'm not going to change it back and forth every other day. This is the only thing I don't like about Freebase. Anyone can just come in here and change the information abd screw up the API.

I really think Freebase should look at verifying information or utilize editors to approve changes before they go live. I'd hate to see all my hard work replaced with bogus information.

New York: Don't merge with state of New York

2008-06-20T09:58:56.0000Z

Absolutely do not merge this topic with the state.

New York: Don't merge with state of New York

2008-06-20T03:42:20.0019Z

The state and the city should not be conflated.

New York: Merge

2008-06-19T21:49:26.0000Z

This is New York state and the other is New York City.

Monterey: please split

2008-05-06T22:37:52.0023Z

into a citytown and school_district

Saint Helena: Split

2008-03-24T17:31:26.0012Z

This topic is for Saint Helena, the country, but I believe it has been incorrectly conflated with St. Helena the city in Northern California. I think the the values for the Appelation type should be relinked.

Wine: properties of wine

2008-03-19T02:20:57.0012Z

I wish that some of the properties had doumentation strings. In particular I was confused by the property, (NV), until I went to schema a saw that is a boolean.

This was especially confusing since NV was the second property.

New York: Merge

2008-03-14T19:19:17.0000Z

This still needs to be merged to other

Wine: Reciprocation

2008-03-06T17:06:31.0005Z

I reciprocated the properties from the Wine type, so that most types in your domain now show what wines are of that sub-region, appelation, color, etc.

Typically, it's a good idea to reciprocate properties so that the data is more browsable.

New York: Merge

2008-01-09T21:31:52.0012Z

Merge with New York, New York (id = /guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000002f8906)

Wine Region: Should "region" be an included type?

2007-09-28T00:07:46.0000Z

I removed "region" as a included type because it's polluting the /location/region type with things that are not regions. The "location" co-type should be sufficient.

Wine Region: Should "region" be an included type?

2007-09-13T00:07:09.0012Z

I don't think that "region" should be an included type of "wine region". "Region", in the location domain, is specifically for named areas that do not follow geopolitical boundaries. So while "Napa Valley" is inarguably a region in this light, "California" is definitely not.

Grape Variety Composition: Recursive CVT

2007-09-13T00:04:12.0012Z

This seems to be a recursive compound-value type, since it has a property that has this type as an ECT. Should the property expect the type "grave variety" instead? Currently, we're getting grapes typed as "grape variety composition" (see Nebbiolo, for example).

New York: I agree with deletion request

2007-08-26T16:08:00.0012Z

This should be deleted as there is already a New York, New York topic started by mw