Wikidata:Property proposal/Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

Descriptionalias: RSBM ID. Distinct from Fellow of the Royal Society ID (P2070), past Fellow of the Royal Society ID (P8612)
RepresentsFellow of the Royal Society (Q15631401)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainhuman (Q5)
Allowed values\d{4}\.\d{4}
Example 1John Barker (Q21165636)1972.0003
Formatter URLhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbm.$1
See alsoFellow of the Royal Society ID (P2070), past Fellow of the Royal Society ID (P8612), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID (P1415)
Single-value constraintyes
Distinct-values constraintyes

Motivation edit

I was looking for causes of "people with DOI" errors. Consider John Barker (Q21165636). He has DOI 10.1098/rsbm.1972.0003, which is not just wrong, but also caused Citationgraph bot to add 6 "cites work" links to that person, which is doubly wrong.

I think we need a distinct external ID to avoid using DOI on person. I don't know why the Royal Society doesn't use the 2 existing Royal Society IDs in those biographical pages.

There are already many examples of eliminating DOIs in favor of specific external IDs, eg

Could you notify people working on Biographies and on Royal Society data? I don't know the appropriate projects.

Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 09:16, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit