Wikidata:Property proposal/preferred label
preferred label edit
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic
| Description | label for an item, only use with a concrete source (e.g. catalog, official website etc.) |
|---|---|
| Represents | Label (Q258435) |
| Data type | String |
| Domain | generic |
| Example | Botanical Garden Bern (Q894639) --> is named "Botanischer Garten der Universität Bern" in a certain data source |
| Source | https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#labels |
| Planned use | Adding a list of 13'200 official names from a specific data source, sometimes they are named different than the already existing item |
| Robot and gadget jobs | Quick Statements |
| See also | official name (P1448), subject named as (P1810), object named as (P1932), name (P2561) |
- Motivation
This topic follows the discussion from catalog label. Where the old proposal was intended for a more specific property "catalog label", this proposal refers to a much more generic and unsolved problem: Wikidata labels, descriptions and aliases can't have a source. While I admit that this property is actually just a workaround for the problem, it also acts as a discussion basis. It probably would be even better to make it possilbe to add a source to the normal Wikidata label. If this proposal is approved by the community, I would also add proposals for: alternative label (sourced aliases) and description (sourced descriptions) which also only should be used if there is a concrete source from where the information comes from. Affom (talk) 08:39, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
- Discussion
Support unless official name (P1448) can be fixed to handle this case too. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:18, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
Comment The problem is that the normal WD labels are not statements, so they cannot be sourced, qualified (eg "name as used by") etc. If we make such property, then this preferred label will not be returned amongst the normal labels of the item (or is the idea to also duplicate it amongst the normal labels?) --Vladimir Alexiev (talk) 08:47, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
Oppose you lost me at the workaround, that's just a nice word for a hack. Multichill (talk) 14:50, 22 April 2017 (UTC)- Oppose use official name (P1448), native label (P1705), subject named as (P1810) and/or name (P2561), with qualifiers if necessary. Thryduulf (talk) 16:22, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose. --Yair rand (talk) 00:18, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
- Oppose. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:39, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
- @Affom, ArthurPSmith, Vladimir Alexiev, Pigsonthewing, Thryduulf, Yair rand: Not done, because of strong opposition. ChristianKl (talk) 19:15, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
