Wikidata:Property proposal/Gazetteer for Scotland ID

Gazetteer for Scotland place ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place

   Done: Gazetteer for Scotland place ID (P7350) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Identifier for a geographical item on the Gazetteer for Scotland website
Represents	Gazetteer for Scotland (Q12715032)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	physical location (Q17334923) areas and places in Scotland
Allowed values	(towns\/townfirst|councils\/councilfirst|counties\/countyfirst|parishes\/parfirst|features\/featurefirst)\d{1,6}
Example 1	Dumfries (Q652035) → towns/townfirst349
Example 2	Dumfries and Galloway (Q126514) → councils/councilfirst7
Example 3	Dumfriesshire (Q67479916) → counties/countyfirst10
Example 4	River Nith (Q2557007) → features/featurefirst2912
Example 5	Burns Mausoleum (Q17570326) → features/featurefirst11367
Example 6	Glencairn (Q5568223) → parishes/parfirst1006
Example 7	Moniaive (Q6899864) → towns/townfirst3153
Source	https://www.scottish-places.info/
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].
Number of IDs in source	more than 23,000 [1]
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://www.scottish-places.info/$1.html
See also	Gazetteer for Scotland person ID (P7349)

Motivation

The Gazetteer for Scotland, first released in 1995 and continuously extended since then, provides editorially researched encyclopedic entries for over 23,000 areas, places, and features in Scotland. As well as the summary pages that would be directly linked by the IDs, additional tabs on the right of the pages give access to further information (including cross-references to related places, people, and events), to a map (including flags for related places), and often to a lengthier historical gazetteer entry. Matching between the site and our items would be a very useful cross-reference for our coverage of places and other geographical features in Scotland. Jheald (talk) 10:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

• Proposed. Jheald (talk) 10:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support David (talk) 16:10, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
• How many sub-types are there? I note that, for the example given of Dumfries and Galloway (Q126514) → councils/councilfirst7, there are alternative URLs including https://www.scottish-places.info/councils/morecpix7.html and https://www.scottish-places.info/councils/councildetails7.html so it may be better to store just "7" as the ID. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:54, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

@Pigsonthewing: Hi Andy. As far as I know, the geographical sub-types are the five given above: "towns" (for settlements of all sizes), "councils", "counties", "parishes", and "features". There are also "people", for which I have proposed a separate property; plus a limited number of "events", which I don't propose to match. Whilst it would be nice to just have the numeric parts of the IDs, five separate properties for the geographical elements seemed to me to be too many, so that's why I suggested the scheme above. Jheald (talk) 18:35, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

•  Support --Tagishsimon (talk) 01:43, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support Looks good. Andrew Gray (talk) 21:04, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Support --Trade (talk) 21:25, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
•  Question I made changes to your proposal. Would that be okay with you, @Jheald:? —Eihel (talk) 12:18, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

@Eihel: Regex looks fine. And the name change makes sense. Thank you! Jheald (talk) 12:24, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

@Jheald, ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2, Pigsonthewing, Tagishsimon, Andrew Gray, Trade:  Done Gazetteer for Scotland place ID (P7350) —Eihel (talk) 13:23, 30 September 2019 (UTC)