Wikidata:Property proposal/Operator licence number

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Operator license number[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Transportation

DescriptionUK Traffic Commissioners' license number
Data typeExternal identifier
Template parameterOperator license number
DomainUK bus and HGV operators
Allowed valuesTwo letters, followed by 7 numbers
Example 1Streamline (Q98456343) → PB1100689
Example 2Connexionsbuses (Q5161805) → PB1003659
Example 3Trent Barton (Q7838363) → PB0002711 and PC0001135 and PB0002186 (this is quite an unusual case)
Sourcehttps://www.vehicle-operator-licensing.service.gov.uk/search/find-lorry-bus-operators/ and https://data.gov.uk/dataset/2a67d1ee-8f1b-43a3-8bc6-e8772d162a3c/traffic-commissioners-goods-and-public-service-vehicle-operator-licence-records
Planned useTo identify bus and HGV operators
Number of IDs in source???
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)

Motivation[edit]

This is used as the primary key for UK bus and HGV operators, and would be useful to have as an identifier here, especially sole traders where a companies house id is unavailable. Alex Noble (talk) 11:06, 18 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

  •  Comment Would you add somewhere in label or description that this is for the UK? Also, as it seems to be a unique identifier, I think it should have "external-id" datatype, not "monolingual text" as currently. 20:02, 20 August 2020 (UTC)--- Jura

 Comment This seems ready to be created, so I've changed the status. JesseW (talk) 17:11, 14 March 2021 (UTC) @Alex Noble, Jura1, JesseW: ✓ Done as operator licence number (P9308). UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 23:03, 14 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]