Hi, given that there's really just a handful of major religions in the world and I think they're all in Freebase, how would the administrators of the People domain feel about making the Religion property of the Person type display as an enumerated list? It would cut down on errors creating new Religions by mistake, simply because users are new to autocomplete. One example is a new user-created Religion titled "Jewish" while expected behavior would be to select "Judaism" from the list supplied by autocomplete.
Of course it does make creating new Religions harder, but I think there should be little need to do so assuming we've got all the Religions here (note: not meant to be taken as social commentary). ;) Users can always go to the Religion domain and enter new topics there. The goal is to avoid unintentional mistakes due to confusion regarding autocomplete. What do you think?
Making Religion an enumerated list?
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I really don’t think that would be feasible.
Accidentally-created religion names should be added as aliases (“Jewish” for “Judaism”) but attempting to enumerate religions is only going to lead down a rathole.
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Yeah...I was afraid you would say that. I guess there's no way to avoid gardening. I've de-typed several things including "Aircraft" and the Song "Undecided" as a Religion, and was looking for ways to avoid it.
May I request the administrators to add a Property Description to the Religion property to guide users? "Examples: Jainism, Roman Catholicism, Christianity, Buddhism, Evangelicalism, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism..."
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