Wikidata:Property proposal/UK railway station code

UK railway station code

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: UK railway station code (P4755) (Talk and documentation)

Description	official, three-letter identifier for a railway station in the United Kingdom
Data type	External identifier
Template parameter	Used in en:Template:Brldb prim, and thus en:Template:Brldb and en:Template:Brldb prim.
Domain	railway stations in the United Kingdom
Allowed values	[A-Z]{3}
Example	Birmingham New Street railway station (Q683063) → BHM
Source	http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/ldb.aspx
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].
Formatter URL	http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/stations/$1/details.html
See also	station code (P296); others listed at Property:P296#P1659

Motivation

Splitting from station code (P296), in order that we can have the official formatter URL (P1630), an alternative of http://ojp.nationalrail.co.uk/service/ldbboard/dep/$1; and can take advantage of UK-specific websites to generate third-party formatter URL (P3303) values, such as, for the example above:

-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:08, 27 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support by analogy with all properties station code (P296) links to via related property (P1659). Mahir256 (talk) 02:41, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support David (talk) 07:35, 28 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sic19 (talk) 21:26, 13 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support. ··· 🌸 Rachmat04 · ☕ 14:03, 17 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]