Wikidata:Property proposal/Member of military unit

member of military unit

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

   Done: military unit (P7779) (Talk and documentation)

Motivation

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We have "member of political organization" and "member of sports team" and "military branch" but we need a property to contain the smallest known military unit that a person was in. We have entries for most of the American Revolutionary War regiments and American Civil War regiments. For World War I and World War II we have all the Divisions and some smaller units, especially for the Marines. If you think "military unit" is not the proper term, make your suggestions here. Please feel free to edit this proposal. Every Medal of Honor winner should have their military unit specified. Medal of Honor US Navy ship personnel should be listed as "member of crew" of the vessel they served on. I thought of this for Memorial Day but only got to it now. --RAN (talk) 21:45, 13 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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Thinking more generally - we should try and keep this reasonably broad and allow some flexibility as to how it's used, as the model that works for the US (which has most of the examples above) may not work elsewhere. I would recommend being pretty loose with constraints on this one. Andrew Gray (talk) 23:14, 16 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]