Wikidata:Property proposal/EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code
EPA Ecoregion Level 2 Code edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science
| Description | part of a classification system for ecological areas with similar habitat in North America |
|---|---|
| Represents | Level II ecoregion (Q98544662) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | Level II ecoregion (Q98544662) |
| Allowed values | ([1-9]|1[0-6])\.[1-6] |
| Example 1 | Sierra And Plains Of El Cabo (Q98825449) → 14.6 |
| Example 2 | Sierra Los Tuxtlas (Q98825451) → 15.3 |
| Example 3 | Coastal Plain And Hills Of Soconusco (Q98825454) → 15.6 |
| Source | https://www.epa.gov/eco-research/ecoregions |
| Planned use | I will create instances of Q98544662 for the 50 identities in this class of ecoregions. See my code here for building the WikiData item information and links for all EPA Ecoregions. |
| Number of IDs in source | 50 |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| See also |
Motivation edit
User TimK_MSI started creating items for two of the classes of EPA ecoregions some time ago (User_talk:TimK_MSI). Without an identifier property, he incorporated an identifier into some of the items by including a series ordinal on the instance of property in cases like Q5330161. I am now finishing out the work to generate items and linkages for all EPA ecoregion classifications as a persistent, resolvable, online resource for work in my lab and by others who work with these data for various analytical purposes. I would like to put identifiers on each item, properly registered to official properties, such that we can execute queries from external data systems that already have the original EPA Ecoregion codes in use. Skybristol (talk) 14:13, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
Discussion edit
Weak oppose @Skybristol: The official website at [1] states there are only 50 identifiers not the 51 you originally stated. Can you clarify which is correct? I updated the proposal to have 50 IDs until confirmed otherwise. Regex also improved but my weak oppose at this stage on the proposal is due to the level1.level2 syntax. Could the format instead just be changed to [1-6] so it doesn't mix level 1 and level 2 identifiers together? If there is a reason for using a level1.level2.level3 syntax I would argue that only one property proposal would be required. --Dhx1 (talk) 16:03, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Comment The description at [2] indicates this identifier was issued by Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Q2986468) and not United States Environmental Protection Agency (Q460173). I suggest that the name of this property could therefore be "CEC 2006 Ecoregion Level 2 Code" and the source URI/official website becomes [3]. --Dhx1 (talk) 16:41, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
Not done it seems to be stale for quite some time. If there is still interest, it's worth going through the five or so pages and formulate a new proposal with the input there. --- Jura 19:51, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
