Wikidata:Property proposal/The Athletic team ID

The Athletic team ID

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   Under discussion

Description	identifier for a sports team on The Athletic
Represents	The Athletic (Q39087006)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	sports team (Q12973014)
Allowed values	[a-z-]+
Example 1	San Diego Padres (Q721134) → padres
Example 2	Orlando City SC (Q15214308) → cityfc
Example 3	Duke Blue Devils men's basketball (Q4171772) → duke-blue-devils-college-basketball
Example 4	France national association football team (Q47774) → france
Example 5	Montreal Alouettes (Q576837) → alouettes (language of work or name (P407): English (Q1860)), alouettes-fr (language of work or name (P407): French (Q150))
Source	https://theathletic.com/
Planned use	Linking teams to stats and news articles about them
Number of IDs in source	~937, per https://theathletic.com/sitemap-teams.xml
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Implied notability	Wikidata property for an identifier that suggests notability (Q62589316)
Formatter URL	https://theathletic.com/football/team/$1/
See also	Wikidata:Property proposal/The Athletic player ID
Applicable "stated in"-value	The Athletic (Q39087006)
Single-value constraint	yes (separator (P4155): language of work or name (P407))
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

The Athletic is a news outlet owned by The New York Times covering a wide range of sports. They have team pages on their site, which includes statistical information about the team as well as the latest articles they've written about them.

Note that there are multiple formatter URLs for this property -- the URL includes "football", "nfl", "mlb", etc depending on which sport the team plays. However, if you link to the wrong sport, the site will automatically redirect to the correct URL, so it won't cause issues for us (try out examples 1, 3, and 5 above; the URL will automatically change from "football" to the correct sport). IagoQnsi (talk) 22:27, 9 October 2022 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Not done no support for creation of this property --DannyS712 (talk) 01:07, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
• Reopened,  Support, MisterSynergy Thierry Caro Vanbasten_23 Malore Сидик из ПТУ Mathieu Kappler Lee Vilenski Erokhin Dandilero Blackcat Notified participants of WikiProject Sports —MasterRus21thCentury (talk) 06:26, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

• The property passes the bar on notability. It seems a bit weird to me that there is no 'NFL.com team ID' property for American football. I would think that is a better source than a newspaper who in all likelihood gets their information from some place like that. Infrastruktur (talk) 13:06, 16 April 2023 (UTC)