Property talk:P428

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botanist author abbreviation
standard form (official abbreviation) of a personal name for use in an author citation (only for names of algae, fungi and plants)
Descriptionofficial abbreviation used in taxonomy
Applicable "stated in" valueInternational Plant Names Index (Q922063), Taxonomic literature : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types (Q56649865)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domain
According to this template: person: botanists
According to statements in the property:
human (Q5)
When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values
According to this template: mainly alphabetic text
According to statements in the property:
(.*^(?!.*(\-|\')\s.*).*)^.{1,42}(f\.|bis)?
When possible, data should only be stored as statements
ExampleCarl Linnaeus (Q1043)L.
Charles Darwin (Q1035)Darwin
Sourcew:List of botanists by author abbreviation (note: this information should be moved to a property statement; use property source website for the property (P1896))
Formatter URLhttps://www.ipni.org/ipni/advAuthorSearch.do?find_abbreviation=$1
Tracking: usageCategory:Pages using Wikidata property P428 (Q23909146)
See alsoauthor citation (zoology) (P835), CNSflora ID (P10219), IFPNI author ID (P9738), IPNI author ID (P586)
Lists
Proposal discussionProposal discussion
Current uses
Total68,486distinct valuesratio
Main statement54,416 out of 54,045 (101% complete)79.5% of uses54,3921.0
Qualifier16<0.1% of uses
Reference14,05420.5% of uses
Search for values
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Distinct values: this property likely contains a value that is different from all other items. (Help)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P428#Unique value, hourly updated report, SPARQL (every item), SPARQL (by value)
Format “\p{Latin}(?:\p{Latin}|\.|[- ]\p{Latin}|'\p{Latin})+: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax). (Help)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P428#Format, hourly updated report, SPARQL
Type “human (Q5): item must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “human (Q5)” 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: Hort. (Q3140864)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P428#Type Q5, SPARQL
Item “IPNI author ID (P586): Items with this property should also have “IPNI author ID (P586)”. (Help)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P428#Item P586, hourly updated report, search, 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/P428#Entity types
Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as reference (Q54828450): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P428#Scope, hourly updated report, SPARQL
 
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Zoologists edit

Is there a reason why this property is limited to botanists? Why not zoologists? --Slomox (talk) 09:30, 17 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

See w:International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants. There are different nomenclature standards for botany and zoology. In zoology the taxon author has to be written out. 23PowerZ (talk) 20:55, 17 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
Ah, okay, I see. The article en:Frédéric Cuvier for example has an infobox field "Author abbreviation (zoology)" with "F.Cuvier" and I was under the impression that this is the same as the abbreviations for botanists. But apparently these zoological names are not official in any way. So disregard my question. --Slomox (talk) 07:07, 18 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
In botanic, there is a database of official abbreviations: Kew garden's IPNI.
But in Zoology, globally it is a mess (There are of course a lot of exceptions, like ornithology which is always very precise). But there are of course usual abbreviations or naming. For example, for biologists having complex names, only a part of the name is usually used. Sometimes first name's letters are added to the last name.
Example of mess: "Bonaparte" is used for Charles Lucien Bonaparte and José Bonaparte
Example of mess with a possible solution: Johann Friedrich Gmelin has for abbreviations "J.F.Gmelin" and "Gmelin". The longest abbreviation been used to avoid the confusion with other authors like Samuel Gottlieb Gmelin which has "S.G.Gmelin" and "Gmelin" for abbréviations.
On fr.wikipedia we use the terms (See here):
  • botanic official abbreviation
  • usual abbreviations outside botanic (But I agree they are not really abbreviations. Maybee we could name it usual naming)
As biologist like Carl von Linné have identified species in many groups, they can have both botanic official abbreviation and multiple usual abbreviations outside botanic (L. and Linnaeus for Linné)
So, as 23PowerZ said Property:P428 should be restricted to botanic official abbreviation.
We will see later if we want to add a property list of usual abbreviations outside botanic
Regards Liné1 (talk) 11:38, 18 April 2013 (UTC)Reply
For abbreviations not regulated by IPNI: author citation (zoology) (P835)  — Felix Reimann (talk) 10:13, 27 November 2013 (UTC)Reply

Single value, formatting check edit

I restored both checks:

  • the single value check can help us identify issues with incorrect identifiers
  • the formatting check is more difficult to configure, but already identified malformed identifiers

That the reports include false positives isn't a reason as such not to run them. --  Docu  at 23:04, 15 May 2013 (UTC) (edited)Reply

format constraint edit

i changed ('t )?[A-ZldvÁÅÅÁČÉØŘŞ][ \w\.\-ąâăãäàáåčćçČčêëèéğíłñńØøöòóôřŞśșůûüùúýž']+ to ('t )?[A-ZldvÁÅÅÁČÉØŘŞ]'?[ \w\.\-ąâăãäàáåčćçČčêëèéğíłñńØøöòóôřŞśșůûüùúýž']+ to match d'Hérelle --Akkakk 11:27, 5 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

It shouldn't be needed as the ' is already in the last part. Can't figure out however how to fix the last three though (Q2464202: Á.Löve, Q3951949: É.Desv., Q6003962: Álv.Mart.). Not sure why the current regex doesn't match them. --  Docu  at 18:12, 5 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
they all four matches both variants in my local php version. documentation says, \w is dependent on the environment. reverted my change.--Akkakk 01:23, 6 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
I tried a lazy fix for the last three items .. it worked :) --  Docu  at 07:22, 9 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

replaced the old by a new pattern that is tested against en:List_of_botanists_by_author_abbreviation with reasons for some elements in the source of this page. the reason why it didn't work is that non-ascii characters are interpreted by php as multiple chars. thats why there's a + behind [A-ZÁÅČ]. --Akkakk 23:45, 22 June 2013 (UTC)Reply

the bot that updates the reports is fixed now --Akkakk 20:40, 30 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
Sorry but I don't understand the meaning of this regex. It excludes Westerm, Bréon, Maries, Dingler, Deleuze, M.Schultze, etc. --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 23:21, 14 May 2017 (UTC)Reply

Uniqueness edit

According to Brya at [1] this is not unique. Sorry, if I was wrong by stating the opposite. How can it be stated that it is not unique, to avoid that others insert the same errorneous claim as I did? FreightXPress (talk) 19:54, 2 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Wikidata property for an identifier (Q19847637) is used for identifiers within a given "system" (a searchable website). This is quite different: this is an international standard (even if it is not universally followed). - Brya (talk) 05:37, 3 May 2015 (UTC)Reply

Outdated author abbreviation edit

In the item for Stephen Elliott (Q2982922), there is the second author abbreviation Ell. that was recently added by 74laprune. If you click on the link, the IPNI page returns no results, simply because Ell. is not the standard form, which is Elliott. Ell. is an outdated abbreviation: [2]. How to mark such a case? Should a new property be created? Korg (talk) 11:47, 22 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

Data type: External identifier instead of String edit

Originally, botanist author abbreviation (P428) was created with the "String" data type (see also the property proposal discussion). But in 2016, its data type was changed to "External identifier". Does anyone know why? Korg (talk) 11:00, 23 November 2023 (UTC)Reply

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