Wikidata:Property proposal/The Washington Post ID

The Washington Post writer ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

   Done: The Washington Post contributor ID (P7943) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for a person on the Washington Post website
Represents	The Washington Post (Q166032)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5)
Allowed values	[a-z]+-[a-z]+(-[a-z]+)?
Example 1	Sandra G. Boodman (Q79858317) → sandra-g-boodman
Example 2	David Fahrenthold (Q27671739) → david-a-fahrenthold
Example 3	Julie Zauzmer (Q66425297) → julie-zauzmer
Source	https://www.washingtonpost.com/
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].
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/$1/
See also	Muck Rack journalist ID (P6005)

Motivation

This new Wikidata property for authority control for people (Q19595382) would improve our coverage of journalism (Q11030) and beyond. Thierry Caro (talk) 00:17, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

Thierry Caro Fuzheado

Notified participants of WikiProject United States. Thierry Caro (talk) 00:17, 24 February 2020 (UTC)

• I suggest changing the name to make it clearer that the IDs are for writers at the Post. Trivialist (talk) 02:56, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
  • @Trivialist: OK.  Done. Thierry Caro (talk) 04:52, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support --Trade (talk) 16:56, 24 February 2020 (UTC)
•  Support. Nomen ad hoc (talk) 16:58, 24 February 2020 (UTC).
  • @Thierry Caro, Trivialis, Trade, Nomen ad hoc:  Done --Fralambert (talk) 00:20, 2 March 2020 (UTC)