Wikidata:Property proposal/BFI Film & TV Database ID

BFI Film & TV Database ID edit

There're two kinds of IDs, BFI is currently switching to new style of ID, but Wikipedia template still use old style.

old style ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

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Descriptionidentifier for a person at BFI Film & TV Database (old style)
RepresentsBritish Film Institute (Q260528)
Data typeExternal identifier
Template parameteren:Template:BFI db name and en:Template:Bfidb individual (two templates have the same formatter URL)
Domainpeople
Allowed values\d+
Example
Formatter URLhttp://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/$1
Robot and gadget jobsfrom Wikipedia (but not to import IDs to thematic catalog items like Peter Sellers on stage, radio, screen and record (Q7176864))
See alsoother IDs by British Film Institute (Q260528): BFI National Archive work ID (P2703) and Wikidata:Property proposal/Screenonline ID

BFI Film & TV Database new style ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Descriptionidentifier for a person or movie at BFI Film & TV Database (new style)
RepresentsBritish Film Institute (Q260528)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainpeople, movie
Allowed values[0-9a-f]{13}
Example
Formatter URLhttp://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/$1
Robot and gadget jobsold style URL redirects to new style automatically
See alsoother IDs by British Film Institute (Q260528): BFI National Archive work ID (P2703) and Wikidata:Property proposal/Screenonline ID
Motivation

See usage and usage GZWDer (talk) 19:58, 11 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • @GZWDer: this is a very bad name?
Discussion
I would suggest that we standardise on the new style IDs rather than maintaining both. If the old-style ones redirect then a bot job harvesting them can always translate from the old ones to the new during import. Andrew Gray (talk) 11:37, 19 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@GZWDer, Andrew Gray, ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2: : BFI Films, TV and people ID (P4438) has been created. Pamputt (talk) 17:45, 29 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]