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godparent
person who is the godparent of a given person

Description	godparent(s) of a person
Represents	godparent (Q223973)
Data type	Item
Domain	According to this template: person According to statements in the property: human (Q5), character (Q95074), figure that may or may not be fictional (Q21070598) or church bell (Q3500690) When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed values	person (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Example	Victoria (Q9439) → Alexander I of Russia (Q15193) Alfonso XIII (Q18363) → Leo XIII (Q43922) Infanta Isabel, Countess of Gergenti (Q240267)
Tracking: usage	Category:Pages using Wikidata property P1290 (Q23909116)
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 Items with deprecated 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/P1290 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 1,869 Main statement 1,715 91.8% of uses Qualifier 153 8.2% of uses Reference 1 <0.1% of uses
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Type “human (Q5), character (Q95074), figure that may or may not be fictional (Q21070598), church bell (Q3500690)”: item must contain property “instance of (P31)” with classes “human (Q5), character (Q95074), figure that may or may not be fictional (Q21070598), church bell (Q3500690)” 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/P1290#Type Q5, Q95074, Q21070598, Q3500690, SPARQL

Item “sex or gender (P21)”: Items with this property should also have “sex or gender (P21)”. (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/P1290#Item P21, search, SPARQL

Item “place of birth (P19)”: Items with this property should also have “place of birth (P19)”. (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/P1290#Item P19, search, SPARQL

Item “date of birth (P569)”: Items with this property should also have “date of birth (P569)”. (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/P1290#Item P569, search, SPARQL

Value type “human (Q5), fictional human (Q15632617), figure that may or may not be fictional (Q21070598)”: This property should use items as value that contain property “instance of (P31)”. On these, the value for instance of (P31) should be an item that uses subclass of (P279) with value human (Q5), fictional human (Q15632617), figure that may or may not be fictional (Q21070598) (or a subclass thereof). (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1290#Value type Q5, Q15632617, Q21070598, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Property “sex or gender (P21)” declared by target items of “godparent (P1290)”: If [item A] has this property with value [item B], [item B] is required to have property “sex or gender (P21)”. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303). Known exceptions: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (Q80976)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P1290#Target required claim P21, SPARQL, SPARQL (by value)

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/P1290#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/P1290#Scope, SPARQL

Bullfighting godfathers

I'm guessing that uses of this property such as Q1888366#P793 (permanent) and Q106534651#P793 (permanent) are incorrect but I'm not sure what the right property is in that case. Does anyone know? Warudo (talk) 22:37, 19 January 2026 (UTC)