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state of transmission
state in which a work is transmitted or its existence; for the state of its material witnesses, use P5816

Represents	state of transmission (Q122238678)
Data type	Item
Domain	work (Q386724)
Allowed values	full (Q122238694), partial (Q122238702), fragmentary (Q122238708), lost (Q122238711), hypothetical (Q122238716) or projected (Q122238728)
Usage notes	for works as concepts only; for physical objects, use P5816
Example	Casablanca (Q132689) → full (Q122238694) History of Rome (Q1155892) → partial (Q122238702) Chronological history (Q122238448) → fragmentary (Q122238708) On Lycia and Pamphylia (Q121157788) → lost (Q122238711) Enmannsche Kaisergeschichte (Q488217) → hypothetical (Q122238716) History of Justin I and Justinian I (Q121093464) → projected (Q122238728)
See also	state of conservation (P5816), state of use (P5817)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties By value of property Most statements Fewest statements Most sitelinks Most linked wikis Total of sitelinks on items Most identifiers Fewest identifiers Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Chart by item creation date Database reports/Constraint violations/P12020 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 642 Main statement 635 98.9% of uses Qualifier 7 1.1% of uses
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One of full (Q122238694), partial (Q122238702), fragmentary (Q122238708), lost (Q122238711), hypothetical (Q122238716), projected (Q122238728): value must be one of the specified items. Please expand list if needed. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P12020#One of, values statistics, search, SPARQL

Value type “state of transmission (Q122238678)”: This property should use items as value that contain property “subclass of (P279)”. On these, the value for subclass of (P279) should be an item that uses subclass of (P279) with value state of transmission (Q122238678) (or a subclass thereof). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P12020#Value type Q122238678, SPARQL

Conflicts with “state of conservation (P5816)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P12020#Conflicts with P5816, search, SPARQL

Type “work (Q386724)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31), subclass of (P279)” with classes “work (Q386724)” or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279)). (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P12020#Type Q386724, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P12020#Entity types

Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as qualifier (Q54828449): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P12020#Scope, SPARQL

Single best value: this property generally contains a single value. If there are several, one would have preferred rank (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P12020#single best value, SPARQL

Property is hard to understand

I don't understand what this property is @Jonathan Groß. Could you please improve the description? Lectrician1 (talk) 17:09, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

@Lectrician1: I would be happy to, but I don't know which part is unclear. Is this better: "state in which a work is transmitted; for the state of its material witnesses, use P5816" ? Jonathan Groß (talk) 18:50, 11 September 2023 (UTC)

Nevermind, I get it. Lectrician1 (talk) 19:20, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

@Lectrician1: This reminds me of something I thought of yesterday. Having values such as "hypothetical" and "projected" for this property may be problematic as those make the works basically non-existent. If a work's existence is not directly attested and can only be conjectured by scholarship, it is not really "transmitted". And if it is only attested as a projection (e.g. A asks B to write a history, C telling D that she plans to write an epic) it basically never existed and thus is also hypothetical, so that "state of transmission" might be a poor concept to apply for both.

I had not seen it this way a few weeks ago when I made the proposal. For now, I think I'll stick with what I've been doing. Jonathan Groß (talk) 05:34, 16 September 2023 (UTC)