Wikidata:Property proposal/Indian Railways station code

Description	code to identify a railway station operated by Indian Railways
Data type	External identifier
Template parameter	"code" in en:Template:Indian railway code (in en:Template:Infobox station)
Domain	railway station (Q55488)'s in India (Q668)
Allowed values	[A-Z]+
Example 1	Howrah railway station (Q986105) → HWH
Example 2	Gede railway station (Q5529666) → GEDE
Example 3	Amritsar railway station (Q16868931) → ASR
Example 4	Bhagat Ki Kothi railway station (Q16971508) → BGKT
Source	various Wikipedia articles and references from the Indian government as may be found regarding this property
Planned use	add this to items for stations (especially a great deal which only have sitelinks to urwiki)
Number of IDs in source	as many as there have been railway stations in India—around 8,000, perhaps?
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Robot and gadget jobs	not yet, though this is surely possible
See also	Amtrak station code (P4803), ESR station code (P2815), China railway TMIS station code (P1378)

The presence of this identifier is motivated by similar identifiers for the United States (Amtrak station code (P4803)), Russia/the USSR (ESR station code (P2815)), and China (China railway TMIS station code (P1378))—the three countries with national rail networks larger than that of India. Mahir256 (talk) 04:10, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support - Bodhisattwa (talk) 04:31, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. However, I note that en:Template:Indian railway code does not exist. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:58, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- @Pigsonthewing: Fixed (capitalization issue). Also a lot of the station codes are indeed present on those items using the generic station code (P296) property. Mahir256 (talk) 22:02, 14 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Geogast (talk) 00:45, 15 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Micru (talk) 20:25, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]