Wikidata:Requests for comment/GNIS-based distinctions

An editor has requested the community to provide input on "GNIS-based distinctions" via the Requests for comment (RFC) process. This is the discussion page regarding the issue. If you have an opinion regarding this issue, feel free to comment below. Thank you!

Over on the Cebuano wiki, lsjbot is notorious for automatedly creating low-content articles based off (among other data sources) GNIS entries. Trouble is, these entries may not be ontologically well-thought out. Take this pair: Q49840310 and Q49877367. As a local to that intermittent stream, these strike me as the same landform, and one which is probably not notable on any project except as a feature of the Q49914553 (notable as a tributary to the Q160636 at Q1550492). Should these be merged and other such pairs / groups researched? Arlo Barnes (talk) 23:04, 5 December 2018 (UTC)