Wikidata:Property proposal/footnote

footnote edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

Not done

Description

for use in the references section of statements: to state which footnote of the source material supports the claim in question

Represents

footnote (Q25424643)

Data type

string or monolingual text-invalid datatype (not in Module:i18n/datatype)

Domain

references

Allowed values

conceivably a constraint similar to the one on page numbers

Example 1

name

knowledge equity (English)

edit

named by

David Allen Aaker

1 reference

DOI (P356)

10.2307/41165949

‘footnote’ (Pxxx)
(↑ proposed property)

18
(↑ example decimal value indicating referenced footnote within source <doi:10.2307/41165949>)

add reference

add value

Example 2

MISSING

Example 3

MISSING

Source

any source material used in references for statements

Motivation edit

We have properties like volume (P478), chapter (P792), page(s) (P304), and others that allow to make a reference on a statement more specific than the work (book, article, etc.) indicated by properties like stated in (P248), DOI (P356), ISBN-13 (P212)—i.e., to make a reference to an element within a work. What seems to be missing, however, is an analogous property to refer to individual footnotes within works.

To be discussed

How do multiple such properties interact when used in the same reference, e.g., chapter (P792) and ‘footnote’ (Pxxx)—would it be understood that the footnote number is relative to the chapter?
Should this property be more general so as to apply to endnotes (and maybe other kinds of notes) as well?

―BlaueBlüte (talk) 06:59, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

Comment if we have this for footnotes we should have it for endnotes also; however, if it's a single property then how would one distinguish between footnotes and endnotes (some works use both)? Also I've read a number of books where the footnote is indicated just by a symbol (like '*') that is unique only to the page, and the same symbol on a different page refers to a new footnote. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:44, 6 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Use comment (DEPRECATED) (P2315) instead. Midleading (talk) 03:04, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Not done, no consensus of proposed property at this time based on the above discussion. Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 12:38, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]