Talk:Memorial:subject:wikidata

Looks like an unnecessary duplicate

Why it would be used instead of subject:wikidata=* ? Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 05:38, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

The problem with subject:wikidata=* is that a feature could commemorate two things. For an example, say you have a WW2 memorial that depicts MacArthur. You would want to add the subject:wikidata to link to MacArthur's wikidata page, but the reason that memorial is there is to commemorate WW2, so should you set the wikidata page to WW2 instead?
Essentially, there can be a disconnect on what the feature is (i.e the "artwork" of the feature) and what it represents.
on trying to find an answer for this I found a wiki proposal page Proposal:Subject which had a list of different tags they suggest would fix this very issue, I chose memorial:subject:wikidata because it removed all ambiguity. Necessarycoot72 (talk) 22:16, 10 April 2024 (UTC)