Editing QAWiki:Guide/Questions (section)

=== Analogous questions ===

The goal of QAWiki is to create a diverse collection of questions and queries. In general, we do not recommend generating many instance of analogous questions, such as "''What is the capital of '''X'''?''" for many values of '''''X'''''. A single instance, such as "[[Item:Q19|''What is the capital of Ireland?'']]" is often sufficient, where other examples can be generated automatically. However, there may be cases where it is useful to have several manually generated instances of an analogous query (that vary only in their particular selection of entities); this may be due to having different types of entities (e.g., the capital of a state vs. country), to capture different subtleties (e.g., the gender of the entity and how it affects the expression of the question), etc. If one wishes to add many specific instances of a question (whose query varies only in its subject/object entities in a one-to-one manner), we recommend using the [[Property:P40|analogous question]] property to link these instances; for example, see ''"[[Item:Q64|When did Stan Lee die?]]''" linked with "[[Item:Q99|''When did Ian Curtis die?'']]". This should not be used where the underlying intent of the question is different; for example "''What is the capital of IBM?''" may refer to something different (working capital of a business) and would thus not be analogous to the capital of a country, etc. (the query would require a different property).