Wikidata:Property proposal/personality traits
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personality trait of fictional character
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work
Description | particular characteristic which applies to this fictional character |
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Represents | personality trait (Q2393196) |
Data type | Item |
Domain | fictional character (Q95074) |
Allowed values | personality trait (Q2393196) |
Example 1 | Filby (Q70759950) > argumentativeness (Q70761814) |
Example 2 | Makoto Naegi (Q22906680) > pacifism (Q104265981) (source) |
Example 3 | Hanako Ikezawa (Q65478282) > shyness (Q913668) (source) |
Example 4 | Natsuki (Q65040172) > arrogance (Q777939) |
Example 5 | Scrooge McDuck (Q11937) > parsimony (Q7798136) |
Example 6 | Jo March (Q27902552) > quick temper (Q84822313) |
Source | https://anidb.net/character, https://vndb.org/c/all, https://*.fandom.com |
Planned use | To replace the use of has characteristic (P1552) on fictional characters |
Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
See also | |
Wikidata project | WikiProject Narration, Wikiproject Fictional universes |
Proposed by | Trade (talk) 13:27, 18 December 2020 (UTC) |
Motivation
[edit]@Shisma, Arlo Barnes, Valentina.Anitnelav:
I don't believe that personality traits of fictional characters fits within the scope of has characteristic (P1552) hence why i am proposing a seperate property whose modeling can already by found on AniDB and VNDB. I'm planning to use it along with citation-needed constraint (Q54554025) in order to keep items from being filled with bad data. Trade (talk) 13:27, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
Notified participants of WikiProject Narration
Notified participants of WikiProject Fictional universes
Discussion
[edit]- Support One comment: I don't think that pacifist (Q16003550) is a personality trait but rather a (political) conviction. It is currently mostly used with occupation (P106). I think it would be best to use political ideology (P1142): pacifism (Q58848). - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 17:03, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
- Most of the people using it are politicians, philosophers and political activists. He's simply a character who's personality makes him aversive to violence, confrontations and conflict...I think we are gonna need some time to figure out the modeling and differentiation of personality traits and their (almost identical) counterparts. How do you feel about making shyness (Q913668) both an emotion and personality trait? Or should we split it up?--Trade (talk) 17:59, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
- I think we should split up shyness (Q913668). As to pacifism (Q58848) one could do the same (so we would have one item for the ideology and one for the personality trait). I don't think that tsundere (Q1047501) is a character trait. It is rather a character type, distinguished by its development. Currently it would fall into narrative role (P5800) but I become more and more sympathetic to the idea of an own property for character types. The character of Natsuki (Q65040172) as described here could be modelled like this:
- narrative role (P5800)main character (Q12317360)
- character typetsundere (Q1047501)
- personality traitarrogance (Q777939) - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 17:12, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
- Could you speak more as to why you believe 'has quality' is insufficient? I am amiable towards this proposal but I don't quite yet see what hole it fills. Also, for Makoto, would it be pacifist, or pacifism like the other examples? Arlo Barnes (talk) 20:47, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
- Because quality typically refereers to an inanimate product and using it to describe fictional characters comes off as being very stiff and awkard. Since you are not allowed to apply that on humans then it only makes sense to apply the same principle to fictional humans (and characters). Most uses of this property on fictional characters involves personality traits, hence why i made this dedicated proposal. --Trade (talk) 00:18, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
- Support per additional explanation, and also as distinct from a probative 'character type'. Arlo Barnes (talk) 06:33, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
- Comment could we have "fictional" in the label? Otherwise this probably ends up on humans with all sorts of referencing issues. --- Jura 09:45, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
- I'm sure that even with good labels and restraints we'll still see this being used for real people, and that might be a WD:BLP nightmare. NMaia (talk) 15:49, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
- This property should be never used on humans - so we could just delete in an automated way. - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 22:52, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
- Decisions about what gets deleted in an automated way shouldn't be made in a discussion of one specific property. If we want constraints that lead to automatic deletions when they are violated, that needs it's own policy. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 20:00, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- How about "personality trait of fictional character" as label? --- Jura 08:28, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
- This property should be never used on humans - so we could just delete in an automated way. - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 22:52, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
- I'm sure that even with good labels and restraints we'll still see this being used for real people, and that might be a WD:BLP nightmare. NMaia (talk) 15:49, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
- How about "character archetype", instead? I feel like the "personality trait" (property labels are typically singular, not plural, even if likely used multiple times) would be too ambiguous/fuzzy. It is also very important that this kind of thing does not get used on real people. (Oppose "personality trait(s)" label.) --Yair rand (talk) 04:24, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- I'm in favour of a "character type" property, but this should be only used for character types, not for personality traits. So this would be actually a different property. @Trade: I updated the property label and some of the examples: Is this ok with you? - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 12:01, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- Why did you changed example 2 and 3 back to their original? I thought you agreed with their personality traits having seperate items? --Trade (talk) 13:16, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Trade: Sorry, I messed up with example 2 (I changed it back). But I did not change example 3... Is their already a distinct item for the character trait? We may think about naming conventions for character traits (e.g. "pacifist" vs. "pacifism", "shy" vs. "shyness"). But this should be probably discussed somewhere else, along with some other modelling questions as you already suggested. -
- Why did you changed example 2 and 3 back to their original? I thought you agreed with their personality traits having seperate items? --Trade (talk) 13:16, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- I'm in favour of a "character type" property, but this should be only used for character types, not for personality traits. So this would be actually a different property. @Trade: I updated the property label and some of the examples: Is this ok with you? - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 12:01, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- Nonetheless i think an appropriate constraintment and property description about should be more than enough. If someone decides to ignore both and use it on humans that'll be the fault of them and not the name of property itself. --Trade (talk) 13:58, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose in favor of Wikidata:Property proposal/character type. NMaia (talk) 03:00, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
- These two properties should complement each other, character type is not proposed in order to replace this (see my suggestion above). - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 11:57, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
- Comment Looking at the history of Wikidata:property proposal/Narrative role is enlightening; many of the points of discussion in this proposal and the also-ongoing 'character type' proposal were addressed there two years ago (partly of course since some of the same people have been interested in how to use these various proposals). I think these properties (presuming the proposed ones pass, or if they do not then the ones that already have) should have a single dedicated place to discuss edge/corner cases between them and to elucidate proper and fruitful use; would the Narrative Wikiproject be the most likely candidate to host that? Arlo Barnes (talk) 00:47, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
- Yes, I think that Wikiproject Narration would be the best place to host those discussions. This project should also oversee the use of related items and properties. - Valentina.Anitnelav (talk) 12:40, 26 December 2020 (UTC)
- Comment Where are we at in this discussion? Arlo Barnes (talk) 22:12, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
- @Vojtěch Dostál: Can we create the property? --Trade (talk) 00:02, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Trade: I think this is ready for creation. I've marked is as such and let's give it a few days (max 1 week) to see if everyone is satisfied. I'd be bolder but I just received property creator rights and I promised some restraint.Vojtěch Dostál (talk) 13:05, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
- @Trade, Jura1, NMaia, ChristianKl, Yair rand, Vojtěch Dostál: @Shisma, Arlo Barnes, Valentina.Anitnelav: Notified participants of WikiProject Narration Notified participants of WikiProject Fictional universes Done as personality trait of fictional character (P9652). UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 02:11, 12 June 2021 (UTC)