Wikidata:Property proposal/New York Times contributor ID

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New York Times contributor ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

DescriptionID of an author on the New York Times website
RepresentsThe New York Times (Q9684)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainhuman (Q5)
Allowed values[a-z-]*
Example 1Alan Rappeport (Q61747015)alan-rappeport
Example 2Matthew Rosenberg (Q6791162)matthew-rosenberg
Example 3Elizabeth Bruenig (Q61677430)elizabeth-bruenig
External linksUse 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 useimport based on links in Wikipedia pages
Number of IDs in sourcehundreds at least, probably thousands
Expected completenessalways incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URLhttps://www.nytimes.com/by/$1
See alsoThe Washington Post contributor ID (P7943), The Atlantic author ID (P6791)

Motivation[edit]

Would allow better linking of journalists to their articles, which are often useful as sources. Vahurzpu (talk) 22:47, 27 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

@Vahurzpu, Nomen ad hoc: New York Times contributor ID (P8297) has been created. Pamputt (talk) 18:52, 5 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]