diff --git a/src/NodaWikidataFetcher.php b/src/NodaWikidataFetcher.php
index 94e847c..0e43480 100644
--- a/src/NodaWikidataFetcher.php
+++ b/src/NodaWikidataFetcher.php
@@ -1081,7 +1081,7 @@ final class NodaWikidataFetcher {
             $datafromwiki = MD_STD::runCurl("https://" . urlencode($lang) . ".wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=parse&page=" . urlencode($wikilinkterm[$lang]) . "&prop=text&section=0&format=json", 10000);
             $datafromwiki = json_decode($datafromwiki, true)['parse']['text']['*'];
 
-            if (!empty($datafromwiki) and $datafromwiki = self::_cleanWikidataInput((string)$datafromwiki)) {
+            if (!empty($datafromwiki) and !empty($datafromwiki = self::_cleanWikidataInput((string)$datafromwiki))) {
                 $alreadyEntered = $this->enterPlaceDescFromWikidata($currentPlaceResult, $datafromwiki, $wikilink, $lang, $lang, $onum, $erfasst_von);
             }
         }