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Best regards! Please, never create any items for any userpages or subtemplates. Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 13:12, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Previous discussion was archived at User talk:Swpb/Archive 1 on 2016-01-05.

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class=history for "full_work_available"

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Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talkcontribs)

At Middlebush Reformed Church history (Q126921801) we have a "our history" from the menu of a website. I created an entry for it, so it can be used as a reference. "history" gives an error, which I attempted to correct by changing the class=history for "full_work_available". How would you get rid of the error messages?

Swpb (talkcontribs)

history (Q309) is the sum of past events and their records. A work describing the history of some topic isn't an instance of history (Q309), even if in natural language we might call it "a history"; it is actually an instance of historical non-fiction (Q1517777). You'll find that with that statement, you can add a "full work available at URL" statement without issue.

Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talkcontribs)

Perfect! Thanks.

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"This implies that all items identified as classes are "the class of all classes". " This is not correct. It implies that all items identified as classes are implicitly instances of this class.

Swpb (talkcontribs)

But the item class (Q16889133) does not represent "the class of all classes", it represents any class, including first-level classes. The class baseball player (Q10871364) is a "collection of items defined by common characteristics"; it is not "the class of all classes". Appending "the class of all classes" to the description with a semicolon is the same as saying that that phrase is an apt definition of the item and all its instances, which it is not.

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