Wikidata:Property proposal/Beamish peerages database person ID

Beamish peerages database person ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

DescriptionDatabase of peerages in the United Kingdom
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainhuman (Q5)
Example 1Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon (Q335260)2784
Example 2Margaret Thatcher (Q7416)2656
Example 3Mary Anne Disraeli (Q6778938)302
Sourcehttps://peerages.historyofparliamentonline.org/
Planned useWill be loaded into mix-and-match
Number of IDs in source3182 (likely to increase)
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URLhttps://peerages.historyofparliamentonline.org/people/$1
See alsoRush Parliamentary Archive ID (P4471)
Applicable "stated in"-valueBeamish peerages database (Q112619617)

Motivation edit

This is a newly released database from the History of Parliament Trust, which focuses on peerages but also indexes all initial holders of peerages (barons, viscounts, earls, marquesses, dukes) created in the United Kingdom since about the middle of the seventeenth century. (See seperate proposal at Wikidata:Property proposal/Beamish peerages database ID for the peerage titles themselves.)

While the database is currently incomplete (it doesn't have most later holders of titles) it is still potentially very useful for indexing; peers were historically major political figures in the UK, but most of the databases focus on MPs. Peers are covered in Hansard (1803–2005) ID (P2015), but in a way that is quite difficult to work with.

As with the earlier Rush Parliamentary Archive ID (P4471) from the same team, items can be backlinked to Wikidata and I expect that we will be able to get that in place once matching is underway. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:16, 17 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

  Support --Mike Rohsopht (talk) 13:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Andrew Gray, Mike Rohsopht:   Done as Beamish peerage database person ID (P10849) Vahurzpu (talk) 01:39, 4 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]