Wikidata:Property proposal/Retrosheet ID

Retrosheet ID edit

Descriptionidentifier for a Major League Baseball player assigned by retrosheet.org
RepresentsRetrosheet (Q7317054)
Data typeExternal identifier
Example 1Hank Aaron (Q215777) → aaroh101
Example 2Don Aase (Q4355182) → aased001
Example 3Willie Mays (Q561852) → maysw101
Example 4Slim Sallee (Q7540604) → salls101
Sourcehttps://www.retrosheet.org/
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].
Number of IDs in source19,618
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)

Motivation edit

These identifiers are used by one of the major Sabermetrics sites and could be used to assist in making more data about baseball players available. Kbschroeder84 (talk) 16:37, 18 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

@Edoderoo, Kbschroeder84:   Done: Retrosheet person ID (P6976). − Pintoch (talk) 17:34, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Super, I will create a script to upload the data we could match to this new property. Edoderoo (talk) 18:57, 3 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]