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target of an attack or military operation

Description	target of a terrorist attack or military operation
Represents	military target (Q6518482)
Data type	Item
Domain	According to this template: violent crime (Q491040) According to statements in the property: violation of law (Q1456832), failed attack (Q28945444), military operation (Q645883), military operation plan (Q149377), attack (Q1174599), massacre (Q3199915), human (Q5), fictional violation of law (Q115570964), country (Q6256) or smear campaign (Q693026) When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values	person, building, government office... (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Example	Rwandan genocide (Q131297) → Tutsi (Q193092) Hutu (Q192647) assassination of Julius Caesar (Q1025466) → Julius Caesar (Q1048) Fall Grün (Q2268359) → Czechoslovakia (Q33946)
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P533 (Q26998039)
See also	victim (P8032)
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 Map of people by place values: place of birth educated at work location residence place of death place of burial January 1st dates People with date of birth on January 1 People with date of death on January 1 People with both dates on January 1 Database reports/Constraint violations/P533 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 2,279 Main statement 2,202 96.6% of uses Qualifier 77 3.4% of uses
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Type “violation of law (Q1456832), failed attack (Q28945444), military operation (Q645883), military operation plan (Q149377), attack (Q1174599), massacre (Q3199915), human (Q5), fictional violation of law (Q115570964), country (Q6256), smear campaign (Q693026)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31), subclass of (P279)” with classes “violation of law (Q1456832), failed attack (Q28945444), military operation (Q645883), military operation plan (Q149377), attack (Q1174599), massacre (Q3199915), human (Q5), fictional violation of law (Q115570964), country (Q6256), smear campaign (Q693026)” 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/P533#Type Q1456832, Q28945444, Q645883, Q149377, Q1174599, Q3199915, Q5, Q115570964, Q6256, Q693026, 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/P533#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/P533#Scope, SPARQL

This property is being used by: hu:Sablon:Bűncselekmény infobox hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Ահաբեկչական Գործողութիւն, hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Ահաբեկչական գործողություն, hy:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Ապստամբություն ro:Format:Infocaseta Atac civil ca:Plantilla:Infotaula esdeveniment, ca:Plantilla:Infotaula conflicte militar es:Plantilla:Ficha de evento hyw:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Ահաբեկչական գործողութիւն, hyw:Կաղապար:Տեղեկաքարտ Ապստամբութիւն no:Mal:Infoboks nyhetshendelse ga:Teimpléad:WD Bosca Sonraí Coinbhleacht Mhíleata Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

What is this?

What is a target? Danrok (talk) 00:23, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

It appears to have been added without much consensus Target.

I don't think it should be used for military operations, at least not to specify general locations as was suggested in the proposal - "For Battle of Stalingrad it'd be Stalingrad/Volgograd". Stalingrad cannot be described as a target of Battle of Stalingrad. Danrok (talk) 00:30, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

Extended sense

I probably made a use of this property going beyond the original definition but that could make sense I think: Nuit debout (Q23725830) -> target (P533) -> El Khomri law (Q22986077) Or in a more generic way: a instance of social movement (Q49773) having for target an instance of law (Q7748) (or probably other political entities). Could this kind of use be accepted, or is there a more appropriate property for this use, or should we create one to keep target (P533) focused to military actions? Zorglub27 (talk) 16:00, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

@Zorglub27, Maxlath: What do you think of in opposition to (P5004)? 4 years after you asked? Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:11, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

@Bluerasberry: perfect! The Future is great ^^ -- Maxlath (talk) 13:05, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

What about murders?

Shouldn't target (P533) be used to indicate the victim(s) of a murder? For example, the only link between assassination of John F. Kennedy (Q193484) and John F. Kennedy (Q9696) is through the property facet of (P1269). I think we should use target (P533): assassination of John F. Kennedy (Q193484) -> target (P533) -> John F. Kennedy (Q9696) What do you think? Miniquark (talk)

Target of any opposition?

When this property was created the documentation described that it should be used for the targets of violent military attacks. There currently is no property for other kinds of targets.

I just used this property to describe "targets" of protesting in Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality (Q30688937). For activism, we can say that the protestors attack some social issue and direct their petition to some target in the activism. In the case of this activism, the targets are a politician and a government department.

Should there be multiple "target" properties, one for military targets, one for the target of protests, and another for non-military conflicts? Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:39, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

Here I am again with boycott of The Ingraham Angle (Q105090984), which is a boycott directing protest at a television show. Blue Rasberry (talk) 23:51, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

in opposition to (P5004) seems to work. Blue Rasberry (talk) 00:10, 28 January 2021 (UTC)

I have to agree. Either the scope of this property should be extended, or a new one made for targets of a non-military nature. The property has goal (P3712) can be used to express the aims of a political action in a more roundabout way, but it's a bit awkward to use if you only want to express the intended target of a political action. Ottawajin (talk) 10:12, 4 December 2022 (UTC)