“Buton tribe lives mainly on Banda Besar Island.”I want to model this in Wikidata.I needed an example, so I looked up the Japan item (Q17). There, it uses ethnic group (P172) and links to “Japanese people,” “Koreans,” “Chinese people,” and “Ainu people.” Meanwhile, the Japan item is an instance of sovereign state, island country, and country.So, the key property appears to be ethnic group (P172), which has subject type constraints: person, language, group of humans, and ethnic enclave.Therefore, I assumed that the key concept might be ethnic enclave (Q3610510) : a physical space with a high ethnic concentration, making it culturally distinct from the larger receiving society.Meanwhile, the Japan (Q17) item seems to use a group of humans → nation relationship.So, I assumed that I should link an “island” to an “ethnic enclave.”However, this link was reverted by user Esquilo.Here is a statement from their user page:“I used to do a lot of work on Wikidata with items related to Sweden…
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