Wikidata:Property proposal/Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID

Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place

Done: Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID (P9546) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for an historical marker of the Indiana State Historical Marker Program
Represents	Indiana State Historical Marker Program (Q106571962)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	Anything, but then geographic location (Q2221906) most of the time
Allowed values	String
Example 1	Ambrose Burnside (Q355444) → maj-gen-ambrose-e-burnside-1824-1881
Example 2	Fort Ouiatenon (Q3077977) → fort-ouiatenon
Example 3	Joseph Bailly Homestead (Q6281283) → find-historical-markers-by-county/indiana-historical-markers-by-county/bailly-homestead
Source	http://www.in.gov/history/state-historical-markers/find-a-marker/
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].
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://www.in.gov/history/state-historical-markers/find-a-marker/$1/
See also	Florida Historical Marker List ID (P6567), Historical Marker Database ID (P7883)
Applicable "stated in"-value	Indiana State Historical Marker Program (Q106571962)
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation edit

This new Wikidata property for an identifier (Q19847637) would help us improve our coverage of history of Indiana (Q11287624). Thierry Caro (talk) 10:33, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

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Notified participants of WikiProject United States. [[Thierry Caro (talk) 10:33, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Support --Epìdosis 10:35, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support Jason.nlw (talk) 12:53, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support Trivialist (talk) 21:03, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support, an important property for the USA.--Arbnos (talk) 16:42, 27 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support, but it's too bad that the actual IDs can not be used, e.g. 64.1949.1 for the Bailey Homestead. What is presented here is not really an example of an alphabetical identifier, it's just part of a URL. I wonder if this property would be better as a URL since that's really what it is. There could be a separate property for the actual ID, but it wouldn't be able to actually link to the website. UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 19:38, 28 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- @UWashPrincipalCataloger: Yes. It would be better if the website used the official IDs. I agree we may have two properties in the future. Thierry Caro (talk) 19:37, 9 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Thierry Caro: How about changing this one to a URL and then you could just give the full URL for each marker? That was what was suggested for Digital Atlas of Idaho URL (P9519), so I changed it to that and it works very well. UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 03:48, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    - @UWashPrincipalCataloger: 'URL' is a nice option when the fixed part of the URL of specific entries is as short as the full URL of the mainpage. Here, on th other han, we have a lot of stuff before we reach the actual ID part, meaning that we should probably stick to the 'external ID' datatype as we usually do in such scenarios. Thierry Caro (talk) 18:11, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
@Thierry Caro, Epìdosis, Jason.nlw, Trivialist, Arbnos: Done as Indiana State Historical Marker Program ID (P9546). UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 20:59, 10 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]