Wikidata:Property proposal/Kobo author ID

Kobo author ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Not done

Description	identifier for an author, on the Kobo website
Represents	Kobo Inc. (Q389251)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5)
Allowed values	[a-z]+(\-[a-z]+)?
Example 1	Douglas Adams (Q42) → douglas-adams
Example 2	George Orwell (Q3335) → george-orwell
Example 3	J. K. Rowling (Q34660) → jk-rowling
Source	https://www.kobo.com/
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	1000s
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/author/$1
Robot and gadget jobs	Mix'n'Match?
See also	Wikidata:Property proposal/Kobo narrator ID

Motivation edit

Kobo is a leading e-book and audio-book supplier. Note that the links given in the examples are valid, but re-direct to search pages. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:27, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

Strong oppose WM does not organize a directory for private businesses. --Eihel (talk) 20:58, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
You seem to misunderstand several things; not least: this proposal, Wikidata's purpose, and current practice (Amazon author ID (P4862), Google Books ID (P675), Apple Music album ID (U.S. version) (P2281), Spotify album ID (P2205)). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:40, 30 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
April Fools' Day (Q80949) --Eihel (talk) 11:07, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support David (talk) 07:16, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Support by analogy with other properties of this type, though @Pigsonthewing: is there a formatter URL that is language and region independent (i.e. not exclusively "gb/en")? Mahir256 (talk) 19:25, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
After further experimentation, it seems https://www.kobo.com/author/george-orwell (for example) will work. It needs to be tested by people in different countries/ with different language settings. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:39, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This doesn't look like a unique identifier to me. Searching for "John Smith" for example gives me these books: [1], [2], [3], [4]. I have doubts that all of them were actually written by the same person, but in each case, the author name links to the same URL. So it seems these URLs are just used as generic link targets based on the name alone, not individually created for specific persons of that name. And looking around on the site some more, I haven't found a single author where that URL contains anything other than just the exact name in order to differentiate between multiple authors of the same name. Which unfortunately makes them unusable for our purposes. --Kam Solusar (talk) 03:05, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment Following your RegEx, the entries can not be good. Check. --Eihel (talk) 11:29, 1 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Kam Solusar. Multichill (talk) 16:54, 5 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Mahir256: there seems to be a problem with this "identifier": would you double check? --- Jura 21:31, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jura1: Um, well for me it was clear, but ...

--Eihel (talk) 21:48, 16 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Jura1: ZI Jony had the same vision of this proposal: simply by reading the observations above. So, we can say that there are 4 "oppositions" against 2 "for". "not done" for the second time. Regards. --Eihel (talk) 11:20, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]