Esquilo

“Buton tribe lives mainly on Banda Besar Island.”

I want to model this in Wikidata.

I needed an example, so I looked up the Japan item (Q17).

There, it uses ethnic group (P172) and links to “Japanese people,” “Koreans,” “Chinese people,” and “Ainu people.” Meanwhile, the Japan item is an instance of sovereign state, island country, and country.

So, the key property appears to be ethnic group (P172), which has subject type constraints: person, language, group of humans, and ethnic enclave.

Therefore, I assumed that the key concept might be ethnic enclave (Q3610510) : a physical space with a high ethnic concentration, making it culturally distinct from the larger receiving society.

Meanwhile, the Japan (Q17) item seems to use a group of humans → nation relationship.

So, I assumed that I should link an “island” to an “ethnic enclave.”

However, this link was reverted by user Esquilo.

Here is a statement from their user page:

“I used to do a lot of work on Wikidata with items related to Sweden (Q34), but I have mostly stopped. New properties are introduced every week, adding to the complexity and chaos of an unconsidered and uncoordinated data model. Old properties are misused in ways they were not intended to be, or deleted for arbitrary reasons and replaced with new properties that are not fit to replace them. The number of statements on Wikidata increases, but it does not add to the quality and usability of the data. Therefore, I have mostly stopped editing Wikidata.”

You lie.

You said that you had mostly stopped editing Wikidata, yet you reverted my edit.