Template talk:Property proposal

Represents v. Applicable "stated in"-value

Asked at wikidata:property proposal/Veterans Legacy Memorial

In the proposal this property is said to represent Veterans Legacy Memorial entry (Q123753543) rather than Veterans Legacy Memorial (Q120204905). The former is a Wikidata item representing an entry in the database which is the latter. I do not think it is usual, and I do not see a point, in having Wikidata items for the concept of entries in database. It is a small thing, but why not delete that item and point the representation to the database itself? Bluerasberry (talk) 17:12, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bluerasberry: since the VLM proposal closed I copied the discussion here. Arlo Barnes (talk) 16:39, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

I still think it is a standing issue. We index thousands of databases, and I do not think we have a practice anywhere of creating separate items for the concept of a database entry.

Thanks Arlo for letting the question stand. I do not think we should be doing this, but I am open to hearing why anyone thinks we should have such items. Bluerasberry (talk) 16:43, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

New parameter "URL match pattern"

Hi, I suggest adding a new parameter for URL match pattern which can be copied to URL match pattern (P8966)

I'm unsure if I can just go ahead and edit the module or if we need to discuss this change first. So9q (talk) 06:56, 9 February 2024 (UTC)

A capable person such as yourself, just go ahead and do it since the change is sort of obvious. The template is used on 11313 pages. Infrastruktur (talk) 11:55, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

•  Done: 1 2 3 --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 15:36, 5 April 2024 (UTC)

Enforcing the requirement for descriptions

@Infrastruktur, GZWDer, Lectrician1, Mahir256, Lewis Hulbert: Currently, it seems like if the user does not fill out the description, the property proposal template does not make it obvious that something is missing. Can someone update the template to make that more obvious? ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 11:44, 30 April 2024 (UTC)

I just made it a required field and that seems to work well enough, both when the parameter is missed entirely and with the default {{TranslateThis}} template. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 12:58, 30 April 2024 (UTC)