Wikidata:Property proposal/New York Times contributor ID

New York Times contributor ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

DescriptionID of an author on the New York Times website
RepresentsThe New York Times (Q9684)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainhuman (Q5)
Allowed values[a-z-]*
Example 1Alan Rappeport (Q61747015)alan-rappeport
Example 2Matthew Rosenberg (Q6791162)matthew-rosenberg
Example 3Elizabeth Bruenig (Q61677430)elizabeth-bruenig
External linksUse 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].
Planned useimport based on links in Wikipedia pages
Number of IDs in sourcehundreds at least, probably thousands
Expected completenessalways incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URLhttps://www.nytimes.com/by/$1
See alsoThe Washington Post contributor ID (P7943), The Atlantic author ID (P6791)

Motivation edit

Would allow better linking of journalists to their articles, which are often useful as sources. Vahurzpu (talk) 22:47, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

@Vahurzpu, Nomen ad hoc: New York Times contributor ID (P8297) has been created. Pamputt (talk) 18:52, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]