At the moment there seem to be two ways to add the information that someone is an author: to enter their profession as author (equivalently, add them as 'People with this profession' to this page) or else to give them the type author. At present neither of the two lists of authors are a subset of the other (and in each case some names seem to come from infoboxes, so have not simply been casually added). What should the relation be?
What is the relation of this to the type Author?
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The type "author" is essentially functional -- it allows us to show information about books, stories, or essays that someone has written. The profession type indicates what the person does for a living, or in some cases how they identify themselves (or are identified by others). In Freebase, somebody who has published only one story or article can legitimately be typed as "author" but probably would not have that as their profession. The same applies to many other type/profession pairs like actor.
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That makes sense, thanks. Presumably, if someone has author as profession then they should have type author? (The point of typing people as authors before their books have been created as topics would be to encourage those book topics to be created)
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I think that makes sense; I can't think of any cases where a person with author as a profession couldn't also have author as a type.
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