Property talk:P1843

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taxon common name
common or vernacular name of a biological taxon

Represents	common name (Q502895)
Data type	Monolingual text
Domain	According to this template: taxon (Q16521) According to statements in the property: taxon (Q16521) or organisms known by a particular common name (Q55983715) When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values	.+
Example	House Sparrow (Q14683) → House Sparrow Quercus robur (Q165145) → common oak
Source	http://www.soortenbank.nl/ http://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=PSME https://www.dyntaxa.se/taxon/info/2000976
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P1843 (Q118496174)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Database reports/Constraint violations/P1843 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 786,188 Main statement 786,177 >99.9% of uses Qualifier 11 <0.1% of uses

Explanations [Edit]

Guidelines by language

French

The first word of compound names and the following words are uppercaseed only if they are proper names or species names, but not the adjectives.

Correct examples: "Grand Boucage", "Cyclamen à fleur immaculée", "Cyclamen à feuille de Lierre" and "Cyclamen de Perse", etc.

Type “taxon (Q16521), organisms known by a particular common name (Q55983715)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “taxon (Q16521), organisms known by a particular common name (Q55983715)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303). Known exceptions: Capitalsaurus (Q3493327)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1843#Type Q16521, Q55983715, SPARQL

Item “taxon name (P225)”: Items with this property should also have “taxon name (P225)”. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1843#Item P225, search, SPARQL

Format “.+”: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1843#Format, SPARQL

Scope is as main value (Q54828448): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1843#Scope, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1843#Entity types

This property is being used by:

• ca:Plantilla:Infotaula taxonòmica, ca:Plantilla:Infotaula cavall
• commons:Template:Wikidata Infobox, commons:Template:Wikidata Infobox/core
• cy:Nodyn:Wikidata Infobox
• mr:साचा:विकिडाटा माहितीचौकट, mr:साचा:विकिडाटा माहितीचौकट/core, mr:साचा:विकिडेटा माहितीचौकट/core
• sa:फलकम्:Wikidata Infobox
• id:Templat:Wikidata infobox, id:Templat:Kotak info Wikidata/inti
• es:Plantilla:Wikidata Infobox, es:Plantilla:Ficha de raza
• ps:کينډۍ:Wikidata Infobox/core
• mw:Template:Wikidata Infobox/core
• ur:سانچہ:خانہ معلومات ویکی ڈیٹا/کور, ur:سانچہ:Wikidata Infobox/core
• q:fr:Modèle:Wikidata Infobox/core
• de:Vorlage:Wikidata Infobox/core
• s:hi:साँचा:Wikidata Infobox/core
• gu:ઢાંચો:Wikidata Infobox/core
• ta:வார்ப்புரு:Wikidata Infobox/core, ta:வார்ப்புரு:Speciesbox/wikidata
• hi:साँचा:Wikidata Infobox/core
• sv:Mall:Wikidata Infobox/core
• s:zh:Template:Wikidata Infobox/core
• ckb:داڕێژە:Wikidata Infobox/core
• bar:Vorlog:Wikidata Infobox/core
• pt:Predefinição:Wikidata Infobox/core
• cbk-zam:Plantilla:Wikidata Infobox/core
• incubator:Template:Wy/shn/Wikidata Infobox
• ku:Şablon:Wikidata Infobox/core
• mnw:ထာမ်ပလိက်:Wikidata Infobox/core
• vi:Bản mẫu:Hộp thông tin Wikidata/core
• d:Template:Wikidata Infobox/core
• no:Mal:Wikidata Infobox/core
• s:ban:Mal:Wikidata Infobox/core
• ban:Mal:Wikidata Infobox/core
• voy:shn:ထႅမ်းပလဵၵ်ႉ:Wikidata Infobox, voy:shn:ထႅမ်းပလဵတ်ႉ:Wikidata Infobox
• lv:Veidne:Wikidata Infobox/core

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Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Inconsistency in the use in species versus higher order taxa (at least for birds)

On the species level, there is usually many taxon common name (P1843) for many languages, which seem to reflect the labels in the different languages---see, e.g., Great Tit (Q25485). When you go to parent taxa, this seems to disappear---for example tit (Q168473), there is taxon common name (P1843) only for two languages. Should the label be reflected also for orders, families, ...? And if not, why is the situation different for species?

Strange property

Many times it simply repeats label and aliases. --Infovarius (talk) 17:41, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

And this is strange? Why, Infovarius? --Succu (talk) 20:46, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

Because it is duplication. --Infovarius (talk) 18:35, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

If taxon name (P225) repeats labels and/or aliases because taxon common name (P1843) is present this is not strange, Infovarius? --Succu (talk) 18:38, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

taxon name (P225) has mostly single (or a few) values, it's standardized. This property can have hundreds/thousands of values, several per each language. Which are already at labels/aliases. --Infovarius (talk) 19:18, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

So what? Having a source for labels/aliases (some of them are abstruse) is inconvenient? --Succu (talk) 19:32, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

I do not appreciate and understand the "so what". It is duplication. The notion of sources of labels has been shot down in the past so this is that same discussion through the back-door. There is no point to them so imho this property is superfluous. Thanks, GerardM (talk) 12:08, 15 October 2017 (UTC)

Adding a case sensitivity constraint ?

Is there any way to configure this so entries that simply use different case structures are not considered separate entries ? There is no reason why there should be separate entries for house sparrow, House Sparrow and House sparrow under EN language for example. CanadianCodhead (talk) 16:26, 10 February 2021 (UTC)

Searching for taxon_common_name using SPARQL and retaining the language

I want to search for `taxon_common_name` using SPARQL. At present this returns a list of names but the language is not retained although it is given in brackets in the Wikidata display. How can we obtain the names and the language using the Wikidata SPARQL query service? Petermr (talk) 09:50, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

@Tobias1984, Brya, Succu, Daniel Mietchen, Pigsonthewing: Any help appreciated. --89.206.112.11 14:59, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

@Petermr: Use LANG(). --Succu (talk) 15:07, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Common names are often stored as labels and not P1843

I was looking lately at c:Module:Wikidata4Bio on Commons. I noticed that it gets Common names of organisms mostly by scanning for labels on Wikidata which are different than taxon name (P225) and not from P1843. For example that is the case of Q473939. I wonder if it would make sense to do some mass transfer of such common names from labels to P1843. Jarekt (talk) 15:11, 4 July 2025 (UTC)