Wikidata:Property proposal/Pennsylvania State Senate ID

Description	identifier for a Pennsylvania State senator
Represents	member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (Q18199902)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5)
Example 1	Roxanne Jones (Q7372365) → 4835
Example 2	Robert Adams, Jr. (Q7341350) → 2474
Example 3	James C. Greenwood (Q6130715) → 4318
Source	https://www.library.pasen.gov/people/view-all
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].
Planned use	Adding to existing legislator items, aiding in creation of new items, replacing generic described at URL (P973) usages
Number of IDs in source	~1,520
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Implied notability	Wikidata property for an identifier that suggests notability (Q62589316)
Formatter URL	https://www.library.pasen.gov/people/member-biography?id=$1
Robot and gadget jobs	would be a good candidate for Mix 'n' Match
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Official database of the Pennsylvania State Senate (Q2269864) with historic legislator biographies. Note that there is a separate database for members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (Q2145217), which will probably require a separate property (e.g. James C. Greenwood (Q6130715) has a Senate ID of 4318 and Representative ID of 396). Both databases would add value to Wikidata. -Animalparty (talk) 04:31, 9 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Support Looks good. Andrew Gray (talk) 13:38, 13 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hold up: the source/ formatter URL has since changed (now https://www.library.pasen.gov/people/view-all) and complicating things even more, I've realized that this list seems only to include former members: currently serving senators are at this list, with a different formatter URL, and the ID numbering is not person-specific (e.g. the ID# 1764 for a current senator does not correspond to the same person in the historic database). I'm wondering if there might be a better way to link both current and former senators, without needing to create multiple properties just (this issue of different IDs for current and former members also applies to the House of Representatives). I'd rather get more critical feedback, and it might be a good idea to shelve this discussion until more clarity is revealed. -Animalparty (talk) 05:53, 19 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support, an important property for politics.--Arbnos (talk) 21:04, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Animalparty, Andrew Gray, Arbnos: Done as Pennsylvania State Senate ID (P12679). Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 12:38, 27 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]