Wikidata:Property proposal/GamesRadar+ ID

GamesRadar+ ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

   Done: GamesRadar+ ID (P11786) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier of a video game in the GamesRadar+ database
Represents	GamesRadar+ (Q960011)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	video game (Q7889)
Allowed values	^[a-z\d]+(\-[a-z\d]+)*$
Example 1	The Last of Us Part I (Q113377532)→the-last-of-us-part-1
Example 2	Death Stranding 2: On the Beach (Q115641709)→death-stranding-2
Example 3	Lords of the Fallen (Q106906209)→the-lords-of-the-fallen
Example 4	Atomic Heart (Q60850588)→atomic-heart
Example 5	Cyberpunk 2077 (Q3182559)→cyberpunk-2077
Source	https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/games/
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fr] • [he] • [it] • [ja] • [ko] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ru] • [sv] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Number of IDs in source	unknown
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Implied notability	Wikidata property for an identifier that suggests notability (Q62589316)
Formatter URL	https://www.gamesradar.com/uk/$1/
See also	IGN game ID (P5385)
Applicable "stated in"-value	GamesRadar+ (Q960011)
Single-value constraint	Yes
Distinct-values constraint	Yes
Wikidata project	WikiProject Video games (Q8485882)

Motivation

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Notified participants of WikiProject Video games

GamesRadar+ (Q960011) is an English-language video game news database. Undoubtedly, this is one of the reliable sources on video games. The website also hosts the annual Golden Joystick Awards (Q2627776), one of the longest-running award ceremonies in the video game industry.

Although the website can be useful as an external identifier for a video games project, there are many problems or better oddities with the database itself. For instance, the website for some reason does not have a separate source link from where you can get all game titles, although in the past GamesRadar+ had such a link.

That is, to find some kind of game title, you will have to search for it from a news article (screenshot) or drive it in manually (I tried search this title manually and it works). It looks rather strange, because in the past, if you look at the archive links of 2014 in the database, you could find hundreds of titles without any problems. So it turns out that for some unknown reason, GamesRadar+ intentionally or not hide their database. This situation reminds me a lot of the AusGamers database, where for the same reason game titles are not shown, although if you type it in manually, you can find something. Think that we should keep track on databases like this, thus I've created item "Wikidata property to identify websites that do not contain a specific external reference URL from which all values can be retrieved (Q116188009)".

By the way, I do not recommend using links from the 2014 version of the database, because after all, many links are outdated and some of them no longer work. In either case, we will need to indicate that GamesRadar+ database is not stable. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 05:57, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Discussion

• Repinging:
  applsdev Arlo Barnes BugWarp Coloradohusky CptViraj Cupkake4Yoshi Cwf97 Cynde Moya Danrok Datumizer Dexxor Diggr Dispenser Dollarsign8 DoublePendulumAttractor EdoAug Edolusill Eniehack Facenapalm Floyd-out FullyAwesome Harshrathod50 Jean-Frédéric Jotamide Keplersj Kirilloparma Lewis Hulbert LotsofTheories Macocobovi Macrike Master Of Ninja Matthias M. Metafire18 Nicereddy Nw520 Oduci Poslovitch Rampagingcarrot RampantSpirit Sanqui Santer Sight Contamination Sir Lothar thgiex Tomodachi94 VGPaleontologist Wd-Ryan WikiSyn YotaMoteuchi
  Notified participants of WikiProject Video games. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 07:22, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
•  Comment Not sure whether this really fits as an ID: the formatter URL also works for other domains:
  • Movies − Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Q84712797) → glass-onion-a-knives-out-mystery
  • Platforms − PlayStation 4 (Q5014725) → ps4
  • Individual articles, eg new-tv-shows/
• So really looks more of a tag, and very much not stable :/ Jean-Fred (talk) 08:24, 16 January 2023 (UTC)

•  Support I don't see any indications why this would make for unstable identifiers. It looks like a site worth linking to. Infrastruktur (talk) 08:44, 28 April 2023 (UTC)

Done @Kirilloparma, Infrastruktur, Jean-Frédéric:--Trade (talk) 00:00, 12 May 2023 (UTC)