How to tag this wikipedia link

Starting mapper here. I came by this object because it was reported that the wikipedia tag was not functioning. It is tagged as wikipedia=nl:Raatakker;en:Celtic field. As the wikipedia tag does not allow the ; separator the first solution a got to was to split into wikipedia:nl=Raatakker and wikipedia:en=Celtic field. But after some more reading on the wiki I came to wikipedia=nl:Raatakker. Problem solved. Well, technically yes, but not quite.

I had a look on the article and concluded that it was not about this specific object but about the object type. Now I think it should be tagged as archaeological_site:wikipedia=nl:Raatakker. Am I on the right track here?

Side-note: The website tag goes directly to a pdf document. Would it not be ā€œbetterā€ to use the url tag for that?

Hello, Kees_59!

You should only give a Wikipedia link once, so use either the nl:Raatakker article or the en:Celtic field article as a reference. I would use the NL article, which is a bit more comprehensive. In very rare cases, you can also set multiple Wikipedia links, see the section on Secondary languages.

For the link to the pdf document, I would also prefer the url here, as it is not the main page, but merely a source of information.

Greetings :wave: from Germany
Andreas

Hello Andreas,
Thanks for your reaction. How about the other part of the question? The wikipedia article is about ā€œRaatakkersā€ in general and not about this specific one. What do you think, should the tag be changed to archaeological_site:wikipedia=nl:Raatakker instead of wikipedia=nl:Raatakker?

Kees

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I must apologise: Between the intention to help someone and the surprising call from the kitchen ā€˜Dinnerā€™s ready!ā€™ (You should always listen to your wife in such casesā€¦) I was too fleeting and only had the ā€˜technicalā€™ aspect in mind.

The more I think about it, the more questionable it is for me to even link to a wikipedia article that has nothing to do with the object itself! A Wikipedia description of the tag used belongs more as an example in the OSM wiki.

The article to be called up with the website (better url; at the moment it has hung up) is certainly the source of information that best fits the object.

Greets
Andreas

As far as I understand the Wikipedia page describes the type of archaeological site, not the specific archaeological site. In this case Iā€™m not sure a Wikipedia link would be useful, but if Iā€™d want to add it, Iā€™d use your suggestion and add archaeological_site:wikipedia=nl:Raatakker.

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