Wikidata:Property proposal/Québec Enterprise Number

Québec Enterprise Number (NEQ)

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Organization

Done: Québec Enterprise Number (P10503) (Talk and documentation)

Description	unique identifier assigned to enterprises that register in the Province of Quebec, Canada
Represents	Québec Enterprise Number (Q105216179)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	business (Q4830453) organization (Q43229)
Allowed values	\d{10}
Example 1	McGill University (Q201492) → 1160453685
Example 2	Piétons Québec (Q109321458) → 1170381116
Example 3	Bishop's University (Q3551383) → 1144890390
Example 4	Canadian National Railway (Q624798) → 1142327262
Example 5	Elmer Press Inc. (Q109322226) → 1168223098
Example 6	Société pour la promotion d'événements culturels du Haut-Richelieu (Q100523962) → 1142451906
Source	https://www.registreentreprises.gouv.qc.ca/fr/a_propos/neq/default.aspx
Planned use	add this to some existing records
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
See also	Canada Business Number (P8860)

Motivation

Every company registered in Quebec gets one of these numbers, even if it is incorporated elsewhere. This number will help to disambiguate companies with similar names. This is not the same as Corporations Canada (Q5172549), which is federal. You can't access the Quebec number directly. You have to accept the terms of service each time at http://www.registreentreprises.gouv.qc.ca/en/ Eastmain (talk) 01:49, 30 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support I guess there's no formatter URL for these right now, huh. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:39, 1 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Support Nepalicoi (talk) 08:22, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support—MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 11:47, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support Even though this identifier cannot be resolved with a formatter URL, one can easily use this number to search the Enterprise Registrar (Q3423625) and retrieve/verify reliable information such as the legal name, the legal form or the creation date. Association professionnelle des diffuseurs de spectacles RIDEAU (Q87727957) has been collecting the Québec Enterprise Number (Q105216179) from its members and will soon proceed with a batch upload of their member directory to Wikidata. This association has 170 members, 78% provided their enterprise number. This would be a useful data point to include in the upload. Fjjulien (talk) 03:23, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Aside from Association professionnelle des diffuseurs de spectacles RIDEAU (Q87727957), Association québécoise des marionnettistes (Q2868026) a Quebec puppeteer association is also in the course of contributing their data to WD and would love to be able to add disambiguation using this new Property. -- Youyouca (talk) 13:53, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support --Vero Marino (talk) 14:42, 11 March 2022 (UTC) Fondamental[reply]
Support MPPRIDEAU (talk) 16:28, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Culture pour tous (talk) 17:12, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Info. I have no idea what's going on here, but there are some suspicious votes ... ([1], [2]). Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 17:56, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I happened to have mentioned this property proposal at a meeting of Quebec-based cultural organizations on March 11, and two of the participants were keen enough to express their support. As representatives of organizations in Quebec, they know what the Numéro d'entreprise Québec is and they understand it would be a valuable ID in Wikidata. Even though they are new contributors, their vote shouldn't be considered suspicious or illegitimate. Fjjulien (talk) 02:15, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Will be useful to create more structured data about Quebec entreprises. Simon Villeneuve (talk) 12:40, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Really useful. It will also help link together organizations in Wikidata and Artsdata.ca Gregory Saumier-Finch (talk) 16:06, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Annie Chénier (talk) 21:07, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Eastmain, Nepalicoi, MasterRus21thCentury, Fjjulien, Youyouca: @Vero Marino, MPPRIDEAU, Culture pour tous, Kirilloparma: @Simon Villeneuve, Saumier, Annie Chénier: Done ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:11, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Otisyves (talk) 12:47, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Not every identifier can be resolved into a URI. Administrative or conventional identifiers car serve as a bridge between classical and digital documentation of phenomenas, cultural, technical or of any other (or mixed) nature. Besides, Québec is a nation with it's own government that manages things differently from the other provinces in Canada in some regards, which requires specifying the origin of the enterprise to understand the issues related to it Fabrice M (talk) 16:23, 18 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]