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::If we stick with NAICS, then not only do the Portals remain as they are, but ASK queries can then produce listings based on either person_names and/or company_names. Even better, since I know you're wondering, we could search for people within companies. Like I've said before, the sky really is the limit once individual data elements are captured. [[User:Centiare|Centiare]] 10:00, 4 December 2006 (PST)
 
::If we stick with NAICS, then not only do the Portals remain as they are, but ASK queries can then produce listings based on either person_names and/or company_names. Even better, since I know you're wondering, we could search for people within companies. Like I've said before, the sky really is the limit once individual data elements are captured. [[User:Centiare|Centiare]] 10:00, 4 December 2006 (PST)
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==Infobox Proliferation==
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I was experimenting with infobox_actor for [[Directory:Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn Monroe]] when I realized that these types of individual infoboxes are all just derivative templates from the primary infobox_person. That is, they shared 90% of the same info such as birthday, occupation, etc. with the only differences being that actor had some data elements for movies, etc.
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However, there is a '''BIG''' problem at WP as far as consistency that we really want to avoid. To be more specific, infobox_person uses birth_day, while actor was birthday. Not only is this bad for templates, but it's really compounded with semantic tags.
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The solution is to create a ''very firm'' policy covering 4 or so primary infoboxes that should always be used as baselines: company, NPO, person & government. Actors could then use a specialty infobox_actor to cover items specific to that biz (IMDB could provide a good data schema), while churches could have their own in addition to the std NPO.
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Let me know what you think. Check out [[Directory:Marilyn Monroe|Marilyn Monroe]] for a good example. [[User:Centiare|Centiare]] 13:56, 4 December 2006 (PST)
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