Property talk:P206

Latest comment: 2 months ago by PAC2 in topic Interactive notebook exploring P206

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located in or next to body of water
body of water on or next to which a place is located
DescriptionLake or river on the shores of which the element is located. See also located in/on physical feature (P706).
Representsbody of water (Q15324)
Data typeItem
Domain
According to this template: geographical feature (Q618123)
According to statements in the property:
geographical feature (Q618123), artificial physical object (Q8205328), fictional location (Q3895768), group of artificial physical objects (Q66661745), geographic entity (Q27096213), shipwrecking (Q906512) or mythical location (Q3238337)
When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed valuesbody of water (Q15324) (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
ExampleHafenCity (Q1561)Zollkanal (Q218701)
Campania (Q1438)Tyrrhenian Sea (Q38882)
Penmarc'h Lighthouse (Q135225)Atlantic Ocean (Q97)
Saint Petersburg (Q656)Neva (Q645)
Gulf of Finland (Q14686)
Baranagar (Q712504)Ganges (Q5089)
Chikubu Island (Q2975401)Lake Biwa (Q200239)
Tracking: sameno label (Q42533439)
Tracking: usageCategory:Pages using Wikidata property P206 (Q21037828)
See alsolocated in/on physical feature (P706), located in the administrative territorial entity (P131), location (P276), shares border with (P47), connects with (P2789)
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Proposal discussionProposal discussion
Current uses
Total99,332
Main statement99,06599.7% of uses
Qualifier2580.3% of uses
Reference9<0.1% of uses
Search for values
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Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303). Known exceptions: Romanian Black Sea resorts (Q2087991)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P206#Type Q618123, Q8205328, Q3895768, Q66661745, Q27096213, Q906512, Q3238337, SPARQL
Value type “body of water (Q15324), fictional body of water (Q16500104), port (Q44782), coastal water body (Q16615865): This property should use items as value that contain property “instance of (P31), subclass of (P279)”. On these, the value for instance of (P31), subclass of (P279) should be an item that uses subclass of (P279) with value body of water (Q15324), fictional body of water (Q16500104), port (Q44782), coastal water body (Q16615865) (or a subclass thereof). (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/P206#Value type Q15324, Q16500104, Q44782, Q16615865, SPARQL
Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as qualifier (Q54828449): 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/P206#Scope, SPARQL
Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200), Wikibase MediaInfo (Q59712033): 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/P206#Entity types
 
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More generic name edit

I think will be good idea to make this property more generic (located on [[instead of located on lake]), so it could be applied to rivers. --EugeneZelenko (talk) 14:40, 6 March 2013 (UTC) +1. I'll be bold and change labels (add "or river"). Infovarius (talk) 18:15, 3 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

Done. Name changed. Filceolaire (talk) 23:56, 19 June 2015 (UTC)Reply

Use for islands edit

I see that this property is used for islands, but saying that a town borders a lake or that an island is in a lake are two different things, for the latter, I would rather use located in/on physical feature (P706) (see property talk:P706#"in" as well as "on"?). --Zolo (talk) 13:13, 12 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

Use for oceans, sea edit

we should include also oceans , seas and parts of it. Oursana (talk) 18:30, 4 April 2015 (UTC)Reply

It is already used for seas. So I have changed the English description and the French label accordingly. If it's a bad idea, just change it again. I guess this now makes shares border with (P47) of limited use when it'll come to linking items to bodies of water. Thierry Caro (talk) 23:36, 17 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

Dam edit

Can we use it for dam (Q12323)? Xaris333 (talk) 03:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)Reply

Proposal: Limit use to land-based entities edit

The property "located in or next to body of water" is fairly unambiguous when used on items for land-based entities, but quite ambiguous when the subject is a body of water itself. For a body of water, the relationships of being "in" or "next to" another body of water are quite different, and should not use the same property, in my opinion. (A body of water being located in another could be expressed by part of (P361). I'm not sure what would be best for bodies of water bordering each other.) Thoughts on this? --Yair rand (talk) 20:16, 2 May 2019 (UTC)Reply

@Yair rand: Let's list which types of subjects fall into consideration:
* dams, reservoirs, ponds, weirs, mill races, mills (can be and can be not considered as a part of the river/stream). Some of them can be understood as parts of the river, some of them cann't. However, I would rather not consider artificial structures and artificial reservoirs as part of a watercourse strictu sense.
* sections of the river/stream (e.g. by administrative division of function), source/spring, outfall/confluence, rapids, waterfalls, lakes, meanders etc. (part of (P361) applicable? Should be preferred?)
* islands, river arms, oxbow lakes, canals, water tunnels, valley, water meadow, riparian woodland or forest, wetlands, gorges, promontories and peninsulas, rocks
* ports, harbours, wharves, quays, pontoons, floating subjects, water sports events and devices, water transport lines, events, devices etc.
* embankments, coastal/bank walls, coastal/bank ways, roads and streets, ramps or footbridges along the watercourse or coast, beaches, cities, villages and buldings along the watercourse or coast etc.
* flooded/sunk/underwater subjects, features or structures, former subjects on the today's reservoir bottom etc.
* events as floods, drying out, freezing, ice drift, maintenance or construction works, sports or social events, ecological accidents etc.
* bridges, ferries, fords, cableways, underwater tunnels etc. across the body of water - crosses (P177) preferred. However, some dams or bridges can have multiple functions at the same time (dam+road, bridge+weir etc.).
Did I forget something important? Unfortunately, labels have not yet been updated in many languages to the "in/on" variant.
IMHO "in" the body of water should have different property than "next to" the body of water, but I'm not sure how to set the difference. A side river branch or mill race is "in", other "next to"? In case of ponds, their type (the stream flows through it, or only feeds it through a parallel canal) can be specified by another property. --ŠJů (talk) 03:20, 21 March 2021 (UTC)Reply

Interactive notebook exploring P206 edit

I've just created a new interactive notebook which maps all items next to a body of water using P206 and P625.

https://observablehq.com/@pac02/au-bord-de-leau PAC2 (talk) 22:29, 7 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

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