Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Wikidata/Tool to replace author name string (P2093) with author (P50)

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Tool to replace author name string (P2093) with author (P50)

Problem: Manually replacing author name string (P2093) with author (P50) is time consuming, and risks loosing metadata
Proposed solution: A tool (gadget?) to replace author name string (P2093) with author (P50) given the QID of the author.
Who would benefit: Wikidata editors and data re-users
More comments: Example edit
Phabricator tickets:
Proposer: Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:27, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

It seems like Author Disambiguator. --Epìdosis 14:29, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- No that tool's method is orthogonal to this wish, Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:40, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Pigsonthewing: Can you explain what you mean here? The issue is starting from a person (given QID) rather than from a name string? Author disambiguator already has an author page, it would be straightforward I think to create a link from that page to the name-matching page with variations on the author name; but I'm not sure that's what you're asking for here??? ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:45, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    - It's not what I'm asking for. Did you see the example edit, above? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:02, 24 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
      - The sample edit doesn't describe how you would get to that point. I guess you're envisioning a place to click on the item page for the scholarly article next to each P2093 value where you could paste in a QID for the replacement author? ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:58, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
        Something like that, yes. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:14, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Generally speaking it sounds like this should be a feature of the software ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 23:12, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support It would be great to have a better workflow here. Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 18:48, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 22:21, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Lectrician1 (talk) 20:51, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support OwenBlacker (Talk) 11:44, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Amadalvarez (talk) 12:59, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 09:21, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sannita - not just another it.wiki sysop 12:06, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Geert Van Pamel (WMBE) (talk) 15:44, 2 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rotavdrag (talk) 11:08, 3 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 14:27, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support ·addshore· ^{talk to me!} 23:11, 4 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Only if the version of the author name used in the work keeps stored there, either in P2093 or where it would better fit. - Darwin ^Ahoy! 14:52, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Waldyrious (talk) 00:31, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Ciao • Bestoernesto • ✉ 16:45, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support disambiguation for this will help for other similar properties WolfgangFahl (talk) 17:06, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 04:10, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Iliyasu Umar (talk) 11:18, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support BugWarp (talk) 00:24, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ecritures (talk) 22:53, 9 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Marcok (talk) 07:33, 10 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]