Wikidata:Property proposal/Antenna Structure Registration Number

‎Antenna Structure Registration Number[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place

Done: Antenna Structure Registration Number (P11968) (Talk and documentation)

Description	number issued by the Federal Communications Commission to uniquely identify a broadcast antenna structure
Represents	Antenna Structure Registration Number (Q120202820)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	communication tower (Q1798641)
Allowed values	`\d+`
Example 1	WCPO TV Tower (Q96776696)→1013618
Example 2	Star Tower (Q2332504)→1014277
Example 3	WKRQ Tower (Q97280820)→1019014
Source	https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-A/part-17/subpart-A/section-17.2
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fr] • [he] • [it] • [ja] • [ko] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ru] • [sv] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Planned use	Add to some existing communications tower items; maybe add to a Mix-n-Match catalog
Number of IDs in source	1325040
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
See also	FCC Facility ID (P1400), FCC Grantee Code (P7264), FCC Product Code (P7290)
Applicable "stated in"-value	Antenna Structure Registration (Q120204369)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes
Wikidata project	WikiProject Telecommunications (Q14943929)

Motivation[edit]

The Antenna Structure Registration Number is a unique number assigned to every communications tower above a certain height in the United States. Federal law requires this number to be posted by the owner on site. This property would enable more accurate matching of Wikipedia and Wikidata’s technical information with technical information in the FCC’s ASR database. Note that, even though the ASRN is the main number by which a communications tower is known, the FCC website doesn’t have a suitable URL format for it. To access a tower’s record, you either enter an ASRN into this search engine or use a permalink that includes its FCC unique system identifier (Q120204177), which is a different unique identifier. – Minh Nguyễn ^💬 01:46, 3 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]