Wikidata:Property proposal/related laws and regulations
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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic
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| Description | The enumeration of laws and regulations about the item. Qualificator described by source (P1343) shall be used for dictionary, encyclopedia, news articles, biographies etc. Qualificator depicted by (P1299) shall be used for creative works, books of the bible. |
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| Data type | Item |
| Domain | any item |
| Allowed values | law (Q7748), by-law (Q679847), administrative regulation (Q28525375); any other value, depicting laws and regulations |
| Example 1 | copyright (Q1297822) → copyright law of the People's Republic of China (Q10872186) and An act respecting copyright (Q5169221) |
| Example 2 | copyright term (Q5169289) → copyright law of the People's Republic of China (Q10872186) section, verse, paragraph, or clause (P958) "第三节 权利的保护期" |
| Example 3 | O Canada (Q93359) → National Anthem Act (Q97684233) |
| Example 4 | freedom of speech (Q22692) → United States Bill of Rights (Q862765) |
| Expected completeness | always incomplete (Q21873886) |
| See also | described by source (P1343) |
Motivation edit
To see how a subject was described in different countries' laws and regulations. We can define dictionary, encyclopedia, news articles, biographies in described by source (P1343). There should be a place for laws and regulations. In the items for laws and regulations, and another new property like main subject (P921) for described by source (P1343) and depicts (P180) for depicted by (P1299) to be used to link back to the relevant subjects. The Master (talk) 11:35, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
Discussion edit
Oppose It will become a huge list of related laws in more than 200 countries, and if historical laws are included the number is even bigger. We can simply use main subject (P921) and the size is managable, just 1 statement in each law. --Midleading (talk) 16:15, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
- There should be more encyclopedias and dictionaries than laws. described by source (P1343) should be eventually even longer than this. So the length argument is invalid. main subject (P921) is for the "Main subject of a creative work." See description in talk page. Are laws creative work? --The Master (talk) 01:39, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose. Use P921. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:59, 26 July 2020 (UTC)
- main subject (P921) is for the "Main subject of a creative work." See description in talk page. Are laws creative work? --The Master (talk) 01:39, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
- Oppose per above. There's no reason why we can't use P921 for laws too. --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 22:40, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
- @維基小霸王, Midleading, Pigsonthewing, Tinker Bell:
Not done - consensus is to use main subject (P921) to relate such things. To answer your questions, P921 definitely need not be limited to "creative works" and can certainly be used for laws. ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:16, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
