User talk:Henning (WMDE)/Wikibase/Concepts/Aliases

I generally agree, though I would suggest another alternative: Replacing aliases (and maybe even the label) with statements. This would reduce duplication, since users currently already represent many aliases as statements. It makes sense to have statements for aliases, since they are not just random ›other labels‹, but have a specific origin and meaning, which you cannot denote in the aliases list. I think aliases were only introduced for easy lookup. We need to get over this for units, anyway, so we could just as well get over it for everything.