Wikidata:Property proposal/parent

parent

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

   Not done

Description	caretaker of the offspring in their own species
Represents	parent (Q7566)
Data type	Item
Domain	persons
Example 1	MISSING
Example 2	MISSING
Example 3	MISSING

Motivation

See https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Requests_for_comment/Make_family_member_properties_gender_neutral

While any biological parent can be entered as either father or mother adoptive parents don't need to be either male or female and thus might be neither fathers nor mothers. There might also be non-human parents that are neither male nor female and thus no fathers or mothers.

This property would be a superclass of father and mother. This has the added benefit that even without direct usage of this property it's easier to write queries that gather information about the parents of certain people. ChristianKl (talk) 08:50, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Oppose separate properties make it easier to assess completes of a dataset. Many applications already make use of these two properties.
  --- Jura 11:59, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

My proposal is not about removing any separate properties. ChristianKl (talk) 18:12, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

• Hold for now until the RfC is resolved. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 17:54, 29 October 2016 (UTC)

•  Comment closed as  Not done per Wikidata:Requests for comment/Make family member properties gender neutral.
  --- Jura 08:50, 12 January 2017 (UTC)