Wikidata:Property proposal/child monotypic taxon

child monotypic taxon edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

Not done

Description	closest child taxon of the monotypic taxon in question
Represents	monotypic taxon (Q310890)
Data type	Item
Domain	Taxa
Allowed values	Q[1-9]\d*
Example	Mendosoma (Q2788054) would use a 'child monotypic taxon' value equal to Mendosoma lineatum (Q3077073)
Source	en:Category:Monotypic taxa
Planned use	Apply this property to the parent genus of monotypic species items, so that their genus articles may benefit
Number of IDs in source	~13,000 (on en:Wiki)
Robot and gadget jobs	If a monotypic species has a reference for its instance of (Q21503252): monotypic taxon (Q310890), then a bot could (probably should) add 'child monotypic taxon' to its parent genus, linking to the child species.
See also	parent taxon (P171)

Motivation

Currently, one can easily navigate/identify/find Mendosoma (Q2788054) from Mendosoma lineatum (Q3077073) via parent taxon (P171) on Mendosoma lineatum (Q3077073), but there is no way to do the inverse, that is, easily navigate/identify/find Mendosoma lineatum (Q3077073) from Mendosoma (Q2788054). This is most desirable, and will be most common, on monotypic genus articles, since additional external identifiers, etc., are also found on the species item, and both require display on the article. This property allows that functionality.

I suspect there is no great need/desire to link child polytypic taxa from their parent, or else the property 'child taxon' would have been created by now. Therefore, this property is of narrower scope.

I'm agnostic to 'child monotypic taxon', 'monotypic child taxon', or 'child taxon', as long as something is produced which links the child from the parent (be it mono or polytypic). —Tom.Reding (talk) 14:11, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

WikiProject Taxonomy has more than 50 participants and couldn't be pinged. Please post on the WikiProject's talk page instead. —Tom.Reding (talk) 14:11, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Support David (talk) 15:11, 1 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose This is something that can be determined programmatically. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:41, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How? —Tom.Reding (talk) 19:14, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose --VladXe (talk) 05:26, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comment: "monotypic" is an unfortunate term here, when what is intended is "unispecific" (or an equivalent). However, this property (properly referenced) may actually be useful when there are multiple items that are linked by "parent taxon". - Brya (talk) 05:48, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 20:11, 23 May 2018 (UTC).[reply]
marking as Not done given the lack of support − Pintoch (talk) 08:20, 10 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Would taxonomic type (P427) do the trick? For a monotypic genus the type species is the only species, e.g. see Aaata (Q15732490)). Jts1882 (talk) 14:45, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- *dies* —Tom.Reding (talk) 17:50, 6 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - dies* harder. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:37, 1 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]