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Uzume has made some changes to Module:Authority control/config and Module:Authority control/auxiliary without any discussion. I'm opening this thread to give him/her the chance to explain and justify these changes — Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 14:54, 30 March 2024 (UTC) reply

@ MSGJ: I added NCDA-based check digit validation to BNF identifiers as per my edit summaries. I am open to any discussion you might have on the topic. — Uzume ( talk) 15:05, 30 March 2024 (UTC) reply

Looks reasonable (assuming it validates as intended).   ~  Tom.Reding ( talk ⋅ dgaf)  12:31, 1 April 2024 (UTC) reply

@ Tom.Reding: Well I already repaired a few that were found in Category:Articles with faulty BNF identifiers and Category:Articles with faulty BNFdata identifiers, namely these: 2114652282 and 2114741860. So presumably it is doing a better job than before since validation now compares the last character against a computed checksum vs. just matching against the very liberal bracketed Lua pattern: [0123456789bcdfghjkmnpqrstvwxz]. It also still uses a Lua pattern to ensure the rest of the string is exactly eight decimal digits. I would be interested to hear if you find any false positives or negatives with the "check digit" algorithm. I personally think Wikidata should redefine Bibliothèque nationale de France ID (P268) to just be the eight digits and use something else to generate the identifier links (including the check digit) but that is a different problem needing a bigger solution (since it affects nearly 700k Wikidata items and numerous templates and thereby even more pages at several WMF sites that are consuming the Wikidata items). — Uzume ( talk) 14:07, 1 April 2024 (UTC) reply

The ID for Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Collections Online is currently categorised 'Artists' but this database includes a wide range of people, organisations, and other entities like vessels. Should it be changed to 'Other'? Avocadobabygirl ( talk) 22:25, 16 April 2024 (UTC) reply

Changed on the sandbox, example below

— Martin ( MSGJ ·  talk) 11:26, 18 April 2024 (UTC) reply