atom feed23 messages in com.freebase.freebase-discussRe: [Freebase-discuss] countries, adm...
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glenn mcdonaldJul 19, 2010 4:30 pm 
Jason DouglasJul 19, 2010 5:55 pm 
glenn mcdonaldJul 19, 2010 8:06 pm 
Tom MorrisJul 19, 2010 9:52 pm 
Iain SproatJul 20, 2010 12:30 am 
Kirrily RobertJul 20, 2010 12:44 am 
Tom MorrisJul 20, 2010 12:51 am 
glenn mcdonaldJul 20, 2010 4:53 am 
Tom MorrisJul 20, 2010 5:34 am 
Philip KendallJul 20, 2010 5:37 am 
Christopher R. MadenJul 20, 2010 5:37 am 
Iain SproatJul 20, 2010 5:57 am 
glenn mcdonaldJul 20, 2010 6:53 am 
Philip KendallJul 20, 2010 7:01 am 
Paul HouleJul 20, 2010 7:34 am 
glenn mcdonaldJul 20, 2010 7:56 am 
Luke SchubertJul 20, 2010 7:58 am 
Shailesh KochharJul 21, 2010 12:08 am 
Paul HouleJul 21, 2010 8:03 am 
Tom MorrisJul 21, 2010 8:26 am 
evening0starJul 21, 2010 9:07 am 
Thad GuidryJul 21, 2010 10:15 am 
evening0starJul 21, 2010 10:30 am 
Subject:Re: [Freebase-discuss] countries, administrative divisions...
From:Tom Morris (tfmo@gmail.com)
Date:Jul 20, 2010 12:51:21 am
List:com.freebase.freebase-discuss

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:30 PM, glenn mcdonald <gmcd@itasoftware.com> wrote:

I've just gone through and attempted to clean up the list of Countries in these
ways: ... Thus it is now, or will be after all that flagged stuff is processed, possible
to get a nearly-correct list of real countries via this MQL:

Thanks for all the cleanup work. One non-obvious thing on flagging things is that it's almost always better to merge than delete if there's a reasonable merge target. Often topics which are apparently empty (like some of the countries flagged for deletion) are actually linked to something, but the link isn't shown because the property isn't reciprocated (countries would get pretty cluttered if they had a list of every film produced there or every person born there). Even for typos like "Swedem" I'd just fix the name, if it's obvious what it should be and flag it for merger.

Tom