[Semediawiki-user] Misplaced relations

[Raving <sto...@sw...>]

A new question occurred to me today, based on a peripheral comment at =
http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Talk:N-ary_relations .  (I post there as =
Stormraven.)

Let's say I have a lengthy article about a prominent person; the talk =
page uses Ronald Reagan for various examples.  And within that article =
there is a section that's lengthy enough to break out into its own =
article, such as "Presidency of Ronald Reagan."  Now, within that =
article there might be several relations that properly take Ronald =
Reagan as the subject, but now that they're in the new article, they =
take Presidency of Ronald Reagan as the subject, like "friend of" --> =
Margaret Thatcher or "left office on date" --> January 20, 1989.

These relations are now misplaced.  To solve the problem, I could use =
common, non-annotated links in the "Presidency of Ronald Reagan" article =
and put the relations back into the Ronald Reagan article, but they'd be =
empty-piped links (such as [[friend of::Margaret Thatcher| ]] ) because =
they don't relate to any links or other text remaining in the article.  =
And there'd probably be a lot of them, a whole cluster of empty-piped =
links related to information no longer contained in the article.  Or I =
can leave them in the new article, leading to the semantic =
interpretation that the presidency of Ronald Reagan left office in 1989 =
(which almost makes sense) and that Lady Thatcher was a friend of the =
presidency of Ronald Reagan (which really doesn't make much sense at =
all).

Is there a way to redirect relations to their proper subjects in such a =
situation?

Wes