Wikidata:Property proposal/Batting handedness

Not done

Description	whether this baseball player bats left-handed or right-handed
Represents	subproperty of handedness (P552)
Data type	Item
Domain	human (Q5)
Allowed values	Left-handed, right-handed, both
Example 1	Hank Aaron (Q215777) → Right handed
Example 2	Andy Abad (Q4760342) → Left handed
Example 3	Mitchell Boggs (Q2356070) → Right handed
Source	seanlahman.com
Number of IDs in source	19,617
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974) (eventually complete)
See also	shooting handedness (P423)

To identify which handedness baseball players bat with

Comment Why don't we just generalise shooting handedness (P423) and use it for all sports? --99of9 (talk) 02:55, 25 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- playing hand (P741) is already used for tennis players. If we want to generalise it, take the "shoot"-word out, and merge them. Edoderoo (talk) 16:01, 26 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
- The only potential issue I see is that some baseball players bat and throw with different hands as a function of the positions they play. That said, I'm happy to streamline the data. Kbschroeder84 (talk) 17:56, 26 June 2019 (UTC)Kbschroeder84[reply]
  - This could be dealt with via qualifiers. e.g. applies to part->throwing, applies to part->hitting --99of9 (talk) 00:06, 27 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
I think this would be best off structured using a qualifier to handedness (P552). --Yair rand (talk) 20:32, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Comment It might end up being confusing when a person with the value "right-handed", is left-handed but for batting. Given the planned number of statements, it might be easier to create a subproperty for whatever property this seems suitable. --- Jura 21:42, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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