Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Property proposal:	Generic	Authority control	Person	Organization
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See also

• Wikidata:Property proposal/Pending – properties which have been approved but which are on hold waiting for the appropriate datatype to be made available
• Wikidata:Properties for deletion – proposals for the deletion of properties
• Wikidata:External identifiers – statements to add when creating properties for external IDs
• Wikidata:Lexicographical data – information and discussion about lexicographic data on Wikidata

This page is for the proposal of new properties.

Before proposing a property

1. Search if the property already exists.
2. Search if the property has already been proposed.
3. Check if you can give a similar label and definition as an existing Wikipedia infobox parameter, or if it can be matched to an infobox, to or from which data can be transferred automatically.
4. Select the right datatype for the property.
5. Read Wikidata:Creating a property proposal for guidelines you should follow when proposing new property.
6. Start writing the documentation based on the preload form below by editing the two templates at the top of the page to add proposal details.

Creating the property

1. Once consensus is reached, change status=ready on the template, to attract the attention of a property creator.
2. Creation can be done 1 week after the creation of the proposal, by a property creator or an administrator.
3. See property creation policy.

On this page, old discussions are archived. An overview of all archives can be found at this page's archive index. The current archive is located at 2024/12.

Authority control / Normdaten / Autorité

See also Wikidata:Property proposal/Pending for approved items awaiting the deployment of currently unavailable datatypes

Already approved properties: list

Documentation

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Discussion

The DCR is created and maintained by scholars all over the world. It is the subject of numerous scholarly publications (http://www.isocat.org/files/publications.html). Supporting items with links to the DCR could help with integration with Wiktionary in the future. Haplology (talk) 03:04, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

 Comment As for the example: Why not 4948, 5748, or [2765 2765] for adjective (Q34698)? From my understanding, ISO 12620 is about implementing a registry for linguistic terminologies, i.e. existing vocabularies are imported to provide some kind of centralized system of reference. And isocat is one specific registry implementing that standard. Its identifiers are specific to isocat and not to ISO 12620. The listed terminilogies still exist in parallel, no attempts are made to create a combined vocabulary. Thus any concept ("class") may occurr many times in the registry. Intended usage of isocat seems not to provide direct points of refrence but rather to construct specific new sets of terminological classes for specific projects. But maybe I'm completely off the track... -- Gymel (talk) 08:27, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Documentation

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This new property, which looks like Cycling Archives cyclist ID (archived) (P1409), could help us to improve items about cyclists. Mathieudu68 ^talk 06:43, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

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This new property could help us to improve items about cyclists. Mathieudu68 ^talk 06:43, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

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This new property could help us to improve items about chess players. Mathieudu68 ^talk 06:43, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

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This new property could help us to improve items about chess players. Mathieudu68 ^talk 06:43, 11 October 2014 (UTC)

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Motivation: As part of the Job and Occupations Task Force, to improve linked data around companies and jobs. I plan to do the same for LinkedIn as well.Teolemon (talk) 08:20, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

 Oppose:I don´t know what employee reviews can help Wikidata. I think this kind of data is not neutral in the sense of wikikidata. IMO not useable as a source for Wikidata.--Giftzwerg 88 (talk) 14:27, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

Documentation

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Motivation: As part of the Job and Occupations Task Force, to improve linked data around companies and jobs. I've just done the same for Glassdoor as well.Teolemon (talk) 08:25, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

•  Weak oppose website account on (P553)/website username or ID (P554) probably works best. --Jakob (talk) 18:52, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

@Jakec:. Though it may seem more consistent with other things, p553:Linkedin, P554: would not tell that this is a company identifier and that the URL should containt "/company". I guess a separate property would be needed (well, I would be in favor of replacing P553 with "Facebook account" et al. properties anyway). --Zolo (talk) 08:48, 19 October 2014 (UTC)

Documentation

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Discussion

The ISWC code is an ISO standard. It is used in more than 120 countries and provide a unique code that could be extremely useful to undoubtedly identify creative musical works. --79.40.127.123 22:54, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

 Comment Previous discussions about ISWC and friends are archived here and here. -- Gymel (talk) 15:41, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Documentation

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Discussion

The IPI code are ISO supported via the ISWC, it is unique and used all over the world. For a test, try to search "May Brian" - or any other composer you know - via this page. It could be extremely useful to undoubtedly identify author and composers. We do not currently have a similar authority control for author and composer. This code could also help to provide an unambiguous relation between a creative work and the legal holder of copyright. --79.40.127.123 22:54, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Documentation

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Discussion

The EgliseInfo database has information about nearly 40,000 churches in France. This property would help a lot to improve items and articles about French churches. Peter17 (talk) 15:27, 30 October 2014 (UTC)

 Support Seems useful. — Mathieudu68 ^talk 17:04, 31 October 2014 (UTC)

 Comment Change it to datatype URL and link directly to the page, this seems more reasonable than to cut of the domain and store it without link.--Giftzwerg 88 (talk) 14:51, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

 Comment Imho this is no identifier. It's just a link to a webpage. --Kolja21 (talk) 15:18, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

I agree that it should be displayed as an url, but it is actually an identifier, as I explained in my request. There are more interesting applications if you use it to retrieve information through the API: http://egliseinfo.catholique.fr/api/v2/lieu-info/67/strasbourg/sainte-madeleine?format=json

Best regards. Peter17 (talk) 18:13, 1 November 2014 (UTC)

 Support no reason to not add a link to a official and publicly available database. Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 08:09, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

•  Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:49, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
• @Peter17, Mathieudu68, Giftzwerg 88, Pigsonthewing:  Done --Jakob (talk) 21:40, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Documentation

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Discussion

The History of Parliament is a long-running scholarly project to write biographies of every MP in the British parliament (and its English predecessors; Scotland and Ireland before the union are not covered). The site is public and free to use, and is probably the main scholarly source on many minor politicians; we currently have links from ~4-5000 enwiki pages to member biographies. One unusual issue is that it was originally published in independent volumes covering fixed timeframes, so many MPs are covered twice (see above) or rarely three times; there is no single unique identifier per person. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:41, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

Also - the identifiers suggested here are URLs. The HoP does have internal reference numbers for its biographies, but there's currently no way to get to an entry on the site using these and they're not public. If this changes in future, we'll be able to migrate them. Andrew Gray (talk) 12:48, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

•  Support --- Jura 15:00, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

 Support -- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:02, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

• @Andrew Gray, Jura1, Pigsonthewing:  Done --Jakob (talk) 00:35, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

• Thanks! Andrew Gray (talk) 08:29, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

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This property can help us to improve items about physics constants with the CODATA informations. Restu²⁰ 23:30, 20 November 2014 (UTC)

Tobias1984
Snipre
Physikerwelt
Pamputt
Petermahlzahn
Jibe-b
Restu20
Daniel Mietchen
TomT0m
ArthurPSmith
Mu301
Sarilho1
SR5
DavRosen
Danmichaelo
Ptolusque
PhilMINT
Malore
Thibdx
Ranjithsiji
Niko.georgiev
Simon Villeneuve
Toni 001
Marc André Miron
DePiep
RShigapov
CarlFriedberg
Crocodilecoup
Mkomboti
Amorenobr (talk) 01:27, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
Valverde667 (talk) 16:07, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
fgnievinski

Notified participants of WikiProject Physics --Tobias1984 (talk) 10:58, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

 Support --Tobias1984 (talk) 10:59, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

 Support Pamputt (talk) 20:26, 21 November 2014 (UTC)

•  Support --Jakob (talk) 23:29, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
•  Support, but note that this proposal belongings on the Natural science page, not here. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:35, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
• @Restu20, Tobias1984, Pamputt, Pigsonthewing:  Done --Jakob (talk) 21:43, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

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Sister property to Slovene Cultural Heritage Register ID (P1587) (EŠD), but for intangible heritage where numbers are differently formatted and the source is different. Currently, there are 37 eligible entries, of which 10 (9) have articles. However, there are clues hinting that EID is actually meant to be the universal ID for all Slovene cultural heritage, so EŠD might become merged into EID at some undetermined point in the future. — Yerpo ^Eh? 18:54, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

•  Support, but perhaps add " Slovene" to EN title? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:33, 26 November 2014 (UTC)

Could be "Unique heritage identification (Slovenia)" to avoid confusion. — Yerpo ^Eh? 20:47, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Documentation

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This is a major biographical resource for Welsh people (as the name suggests). I'm currently preparing a list of all DWB identifiers to go into Magnus's mix-and-match tool when this property is ready.

The proposed identifier is English-specific - Welsh ones have a 'c' rather than 's' and use a slightly different URL, /en/s2-LLOY-DAV-1863 versus /cy/c2-LLOY-DAV-1863. We could easily use the Welsh form instead, or we could use one without the initial letter and rely on the user to add the language prefix (eg 2-LLOY-DAV-1863; the problem with this is that some have no number and would start with an initial "-").

(@Llywelyn2000:, who suggested this) Andrew Gray (talk) 00:57, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

•  Support Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:36, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
•  Support --Tobias1984 (talk) 18:01, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Books has more than 50 participants and couldn't be pinged. Please post on the WikiProject's talk page instead. --Tobias1984 (talk) 18:01, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

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This site is operated by Korean Film Archive (Q6431840), and this site has a number of Korean actors' authority file. — revi^{^} 14:16, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

 Support--Konggaru (talk) 15:12, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

 Support--Kolja21 (talk) 16:46, 29 November 2014 (UTC)

 Support--DangSunM (talk) 19:26, 30 November 2014 (UTC)

Documentation

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The identifiers are already in use in a template on de.wikipedia, a complete list of the articles which include the VorlageːBBF Personaldaten can be found here (the second parameter of that list is the Integrated Authority File (Q36578)). The personal data, accurately digitalised by the Research Library for the History of Education, are precious historical sources for the biography of many Prussian scholars. Mai-Sachme (talk) 11:01, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

 Support as a temporary measure. However, I would not consider this authority control per se, but rather a complete collection of primary (archival) sources for a well defined group of people (teachers in Kingdom of Prussia (Q27306) after about 1871) suitable to provide source statements for many sorts of claims.

I imagine a Q-item for the database Personaldaten von Lehrern und Lehrerinnen Preußens (or preferably the couple of individual archival fonds represented by the database - unfortunately a more detailed description did not survive the recent relaunch of BBF's web pages), provided with

⟨ Q-Personaldaten... ⟩ formatter URL (P1630) ⟨ object or value ⟩

and accompanied with a to-be-created "identifier to insert" property analogous to page(s) (P304) would be a long term solution:

⟨ August Wilhelm Zumpt (Q68848)    ⟩ claim Search ⟨ whatever ⟩
stated in (P248) ⟨ Q-Personaldaten... ⟩
insert-identifier Search ⟨ p192456 ⟩

. We would however lose the statement about the identity of August Wilhelm Zumpt (Q68848) and the resource http://bbf.dipf.de/kataloge/archivdatenbank/digiakt.pl?id=p192456 but could regain that by a generic "identifier" property as already discussed for formatter URL (P1630):

⟨ August Wilhelm Zumpt (Q68848)    ⟩ identifier-for Search ⟨ Q-Personaldaten... ⟩
identifier-to-insert Search ⟨ p192456 ⟩

. We already could state

⟨ August Wilhelm Zumpt (Q68848)    ⟩ catalog code (P528) ⟨ p192456 ⟩
catalog (P972) ⟨ Q-Personaldaten... ⟩

but I'm not sure what would be going to break if we would start to exploit this in combination with formatter URL (P1630). -- Gymel (talk) 15:21, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

 Support as is. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:37, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

 Support --Kolja21 (talk) 02:34, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

Documentation

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Discussion

The identifiers are already in use in on VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/30920616/ Uzume (talk) 01:02, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

 Support --Kolja21 (talk) 12:51, 13 December 2014 (UTC)

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Discussion

To link to YouTube videos of notable audiovisual works. Emw (talk) 19:57, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

•  Support, of course it was my suggestion. :-P YouTube has partnered with Vevo and are often the official music video & player. Political campaigns and multinational companies use YouTube as part of their platform. And thanks to Obama's White House there's a non-tracking domain, youtube-nocookie.com. For reference other YouTube identifiers include channel, playlist, and comments. Additional information about the video can be accessed through Google's APIs. Dispenser (talk) 05:04, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
•  Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:00, 17 December 2014 (UTC)

Documentation

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Discussion

It would be fine, if every number can only be used once to prevent duplicates. Thank you for help, Conny (talk) 16:59, 18 December 2014 (UTC).