This one is a bit awkward to count in Wikidata, as there’s a lot of duplicate information (e.g. Yasuo Fukuda has two separate “position held” statements for the same term in office), and unlike most other countries where consecutive terms in office tend to be entered as a single “position held” statement, here each one gets a separate entry — see, for example, the four entries for Shinzō Abe. As each has distinct qualifiers that doesn’t apply to the others, I think that’s the correct modelling, even though it makes our counting more difficult. Should this become more common, we’d probably want to tweak our approach more generally.
In some cases (e.g. Toshiki Kaifu) the data is even entered both ways!
- Date of joining: 1956-12-18
- Expected count from Wikipedia (Ichirō Hatoyama onwards): 30
- Number in Wikidata: 30
- PositionHolderHistory warnings: 74
- Score:
42/116 = 36%152/300 = 51%
I think this is the first case where the information is all technically present in Wikidata, but is entered with so much duplication and confusion that it’s very difficult to query, especially in a way that can be consistent across different countries.
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