Wikidata:Property proposal/PO box

PO Box edit

Done: post office box (P2918) (Talk and documentation)

Description	PO box as part of an address
Represents	post office box (Q1162282)
Data type	String
Example	Interest Group for Liberal Weapons Law in Austria (Q1666004) headquarters location (P159) Vienna (Q1741), qualifiers: postal code (P281) 1051, this property 108

Motivation

To be used as qualifier on address-like properties. I stumbled across this in the example above while looking for remaining uses of comment (DEPRECATED) (P2315). It seems useful that we can specify a PO box when specifying addresses. --Srittau (talk) 17:28, 5 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

First, thanks for testing this out as a separate page, I think it works well! Second - I guess this is a necessary complement to P969 (P969)? Or would it be better to have a general mailing address property (which would include PO Box)? ArthurPSmith (talk) 15:54, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I would think that this would go with P969 (P969). On my example above, the PO box was attached to headquarters location (P159), which makes a bit of sense, but not really. And then there is also located on street (P669), which works like P969 (P969), but for street items. I think all of this is a bit of a mess, at the moment. We should maybe rethink how we are doing addresses, but I guess we would need a more public place for that than this proposal. --Srittau (talk) 20:09, 6 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Support just to indicate this has my support. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:23, 9 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

@Srittau: Done Lymantria (talk) 10:15, 19 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]