I should be able to clone a Thing
        
          Summary: 
The initial request from Eric:
(Possbly-relatedly-but-possibly-not, "Copy Thing" would also be lovely; there have been times I've really wanted to clone something, and doing so manually is tedious. AOK if it's console-only.)
Doing this console-only seems pretty straightforward, so let's consider this one seriously -- it's a reasonable power feature.
Indeed, should we think about this as a straight Querki function?  Conceptually, it's pretty parallel to, eg, _createThing(), and would ideally want similar parameters.  So we might consider implementing it that way, and just making sure it can be invoked ad-hoc from the Console...