Wikidata:Property proposal/The Literary Encyclopedia person ID
The Literary Encyclopedia person ID edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person
Description | identifier for an author in The Literary Encyclopedia |
---|---|
Represents | The Literary Encyclopedia (Q7747554) |
Data type | External identifier |
Domain | human (Q5) |
Allowed values | [1-9]\d* |
Example 1 | James Agee (Q352963) → 46 |
Example 2 | John Arbuthnot (Q435816) → 138 |
Example 3 | Emily Dickinson (Q4441) → 1259 |
Example 4 | Elinor Glyn (Q447240) → 1773 |
Example 5 | Knut Hamsun (Q40826) → 1966 |
Example 6 | Tzvetan Todorov (Q313852) → 4408 |
Example 7 | Dorothy West (Q371930) → 4929 |
Example 8 | Sarah Waters (Q237555) → 11906 |
Example 9 | José Martí (Q103285) → 13470 |
Example 10 | Doric Germain (Q3037035) → 13498 |
Source | https://www.litencyc.com/ |
Planned use | adding this identifier to items for authors being created or edited; may be a candidate for Mix'n'match? |
Number of IDs in source | 3925 (as of June 20, 2023) |
Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
Formatter URL | https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=$1 |
Applicable "stated in"-value | The Literary Encyclopedia (Q7747554) |
Single-value constraint | yes |
Distinct-values constraint | yes |
Motivation edit
From the overview on its website, "First published in September 2000, The Literary Encyclopedia (Q7747554) provides 9520 articles about world literatures in English, amounting to 20 million words. It grows by 20-30 articles per month and is written and edited by university specialists who own the publication collectively." The encyclopedia publishes biographies of major and minor writers, as well as scholarly descriptions of all interesting texts written by these authors, and a variety of descriptive and critical essays on literary, cultural, and historical matters. Although this is a subscription-based resource, it makes some articles freely accessible each month (see the Emily Dickinson, José Martí, Knut Hamsun, and Tzvetan Todorov examples above), and even the articles that are not fully accessible without a subscription include useful viewable biographical information about those persons. AdamSeattle (talk) 22:54, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
Discussion edit
- Support -- ArthurPSmith (talk) 14:36, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
- Support -- Crystal Yragui, University of Washington Libraries (talk) 20:41, 28 June 2023 (UTC)
- Support -- RealityBites (talk) 16:29, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
- Support, obviously. Maxime Ravel (talk) 05:48, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
- Support -- Emwille (talk) 16:16, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
@AdamSeattle, ArthurPSmith, Clements.UWLib, RealityBites, Maxime Ravel, Emwille: Done Vahurzpu (talk) 20:04, 5 July 2023 (UTC)