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Person

‎name starts with

Under discussion

Description	The name that this qualifies, the full contents of which are unknown, is known to start with these characters.
Data type	Item
Domain	Qualifies name (P2561) or any subproperty thereof
Example 1	CGP Grey (Q5006102)given name (P735) unknownseries ordinal (P1545)#1name starts withC. (Q19803499) unknownseries ordinal (P1545)#2name starts withG. (Q19803504) unknownseries ordinal (P1545)#3name starts withP. (Q19803513)
Example 2	Jay Floyd (Q126583871)given name (P735) Orbie (Q131615011)series ordinal (P1545)#1 unknownseries ordinal (P1545)#2name starts withJ. (Q19803507)
Example 3	Scooter Libby (Q380441)given name (P735) unknownseries ordinal (P1545)#1string starts withI. (Q19803506) Lewis (Q768196)series ordinal (P1545)#2
Allowed values	Instance of initials instead of given names (Q19803443)
Planned use	I would like to go through backlinks to instances of initials instead of given names (Q19803443) and correct usage that incorrectly treats them as names.

Motivation

It is relatively common for somebody's first or middle name (or rarely family name) to be unknown, but for the first letter (or rarely first few letters) to be known. This is especially common when dealing with less famous figures, but also occasionally happens with well-known people like I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby (Q380441) (see en:Scooter Libby#Name). There is not currently any good way to represent this. The various instances of initials instead of given names (Q19803443) exist, but using them as direct values of name properties is incorrect: CGP Grey's first name is not "C"; it is some full word that he chooses to keep private, but which we know the first letter of. This distinction is all the more important because there are some people who do only have a single-letter name, like Harry S. Truman (Q11613). Currently nothing makes clear the difference between Harry S.'s case and that of Harry R. Truman (Q509891), whose full middle name is lost to time. The only current alternative to misleading usage of a name property for an initial is to omit the initial entirely, which is also misleading.

My proposed solution is to, in such cases, use the unknown value option for such a name, and then use this new qualifier to give their first letter(s). This is semantically accurate and omits no important information. It also allows use of has cause (P828) to distinguish among reasons for a full name not being known. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 03:14, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Courtesy ping AntiCompositeNumber per previous discussion of this. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 03:14, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support This makes sense to me. Is it clearly going to be limited to given names or are there other cases? ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:39, 7 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think given names would be the most common use case, but it could occur with any subclass of name (P2561), at least in theory. For instance, some litigants in the U.S. are known only by first and last initial, so that would be both given name and surname. I'll update the proposal to clarify this. -- Tamzin^{[cetacean needed]} (they|xe) 00:56, 9 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I support this qualifier but suggest renaming it to "initial" instead. The current name is technically inaccurate because the examples include a dot, which is not part of the name itself. Using "initial" would also make the qualifier useful when the full name is known. For instance, with Theo Heemskerk (Q663299), it could specify that his initials are "Th." rather than "T.". Dajasj (talk) 20:29, 18 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral This is not a bad idea, but given that initial entries already exist, I'm very okay with the current system, and I think Dajasj's suggestion for a name and scope (you also see this with Cyrillic names) is a much better approach. Circeus (talk) 02:45, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
An alternative would be to use the initial with object of statement has role (P3831) as a qualifier. For initials a name is abbreviated to where the full name is known, the qualifier could be short name (P1813). Peter James (talk) 21:54, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support I support the variant that Dajasj suggested Yuriklim (talk) 13:35, 1 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose I would imagine in most use cases, someone looking at the given name (P735) property just wants the best version of a name; the distinction between "initial used intentionally" and "initial used because full name is unknown" is not going to matter for most use cases. If we start changing P735 values from C. (Q19803499) to unknown value, it will require that every application that uses P735 have special handling for this, even though most applications probably won't care.
We already have qualifiers that are designed for dealing with minor distinctions like these. For several of the examples, we could add object of statement has role (P3831)generally used form (Q112627455) to indicate that the abbreviation is genuinely the preferred way to write the name. For Truman, we could also add nature of statement (P5102)official (Q29509043). For people who deliberately try to keep their name secret (e.g. Scooter Libby, CGP Grey), perhaps we need a new value for P5102; something like "more precise value kept private". In cases where it's genuinely unknown, we could do nature of statement (P5102)unknown (Q24238356). In cases where the name might be out there somewhere, but it hasn't been investigated yet, we could do nature of statement (P5102)not yet determined (Q59496158) (although realistically, most of the time if it hasn't been investigated, no one will have bothered to add any qualifier at all). –IagoQnsi (talk) 20:01, 16 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Rzuwig^► 13:10, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Weak oppose per IagoQnsi. This makes sense but is not a practical solution. The current system conveys the same amount of information and is easier to use for (automated) editors and data consumers. The number of backlinks to instances of initials instead of given names (Q19803443) is over 42k. --Dexxor (talk) 14:34, 14 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

perfumer

Under discussion

Description	person who created a perfume
Represents	perfumer (Q579021)
Data type	Item
Domain	human (Q5)
Example 1	Counterplay (Q137183811) → Christelle Laprade (Q137183971)
Example 2	Tom Ford for Men (Q137182953) → Yves Cassar (Q137183704)
Example 3	Bianco Latte (Q137183849) → Silvia Martinelli (Q137183875)
Example 4	Chanel No. 5 (Q820507) → Ernest Beaux (Q1356245)
Example 5	With Love... Hilary Duff (Q3318899) → Rodrigo Flores-Roux (Q110686533) and Stephen Nilsen (Q137184007)
Planned use	adding to items for perfumes
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Single-value constraint	no

Motivation

The individual responsible for creating a particular fragrance is called the "perfumer" or the "nose". This property would establish a specific way to name the nose of perfumes, which is often included in perfume databases such as Fragrantica (Q106762063). While existing property creator (P170) could be used, it could be confused with the brand or company that manufactures or markets a perfume fragrance. "Perfumer" would be subclass of creator (P170). Given that there are other properties that are subclasses of creator, such as author (P50), composer (P86), architect (P84), developer (P178), designed by (P287), lyricist (P676), and collection creator (P6241), it would be useful to have a specific and clear property to name the perfumer(s) of a perfume. Aliases for the property: "nose", "perfume creator", "perfume nose", "perfume created by". AdamSeattle (talk) 03:55, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

This seems a very narrow property compared with the other specialist creator types named. I think creator (P170) covers this use case well enough already, so Oppose
Comment You say creator (P170) could be confused with who created the brand or the company, but these should have their own items, right? So it's only a problem on conflated items. This may instead make it less obvious when an item is conflated, as you can add this statement on an item already having creator (P170) and not reflect so much about adding a second one statement. Ainali (talk) 16:05, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I think what they mean is that they're concerned that creator (P170) might be mistakenly used for the brand or company itself, especially since so many perfume brands are the names of individuals. For example, the English label for Chanel No. 5 (Q820507) says it's a perfume by Coco Chanel, so someone might put that the creator of Chanel No. 5 (Q820507) is Coco Chanel (Q45661). However, the person who actually designed the perfume is Ernest Beaux (Q1356245). They are recorded in that item as the creator, but I can see the value in a more specific property since this is very typical within the fragrance world (Clement Gavarry and Ariana Grande (Q151892)'s "Cloud"; Jacques Cavallier (Q3158478) and Issey Miyake (Q469027)'s L'eau d'Issey (Q17126301), etc.) Support Mcampany (talk) 16:24, 8 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I agree that creator (P170) is just too broad. Many perfume brands named for someone were not created by that person, they were created by some other perfumer. Databases like Fragrantica (Q106762063) give the name of the "nose", the actual person who created the fragrance. Coco Chanel did not create her fragrances, someone else did, and she just has her name on the brand. Since there are other narrower properties to creator, it does not seem inappropriate to have another one for the actual perfumer(s) who designed a fragrance. After all, creator (P170) could have been used for a musical composition, but instead we have composer (P86). creator (P170) could have been used for a literary work, but we have author (P50) to be more exact. I don't think perfumes ought to be treated any differently, especially when there can be confusion about the creator of a perfume when the perfume brand has someone else's name in it. AdamSeattle (talk) 08:37, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
developer (P178) also seems a good fit. We have less than 250 perfumes, vastly less than inventions, written works or music, so there is no equivalence. Vicarage (talk) 08:45, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I am planning to start adding more items for perfumes, so that count will increase. It would seem strange to me to add “perfumer” and “nose” as aliases of developer (P178). If the proposed property is not approved then the alternative that I can think of is to use creator (P170) with a qualifier object of statement has role (P3831) = perfumer (Q579021). That’s more work than having a specific property. AdamSeattle 09:09, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
What other entities are involved in perfume creation other than perfumers and companies, which are easily distinguishable anyway? Vicarage (talk) 09:16, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Other entities are manufacturer (P176) and brand (P1716) AdamSeattle (talk) 18:54, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support Creating properties says that "When proposing properties, keep in mind that each property should be expected to be used by at least 100 items." Less than 250 items for perfumes with more being added (even if some don't have a known creator) easily exceeds that threshold for items that could benefit from this property. --Emwille (talk) 18:03, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Hermiiine (talk) 18:06, 5 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Xcity actress ID

Under discussion

Description	identifier for an actress on the Xcity website
Represents	Kuki Inc. (Q10879079)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5), AV idol (Q1079215)
Example 1	Ai Nagase (Q9013243) → 945
Example 2	Hibiki Ōtsuki (Q9187572) → 3208
Example 3	Jessica Kizaki (Q8976570) → 2805
Source	https://xcity.jp/
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Formatter URL	https://xcity.jp/idol/detail/$1
Robot and gadget jobs	might be imported from ja:Template:Xcity

Motivation

This property links Wikidata items of Japanese adult video actresses to their profiles on the Xcity website. Xcity has long been used as a major reference database for Japanese adult video actresses and is widely cited in Japanese Wikipedia articles. This identifier will help improve consistency and cross-referencing of biographical and filmography information across Wikimedia projects.ならちゃん (talk) 11:04, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support --Sabelöga (talk) 15:45, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User account

‎CHZZK streamer ID

Under discussion

Description	identifier for streamer account in CHZZK
Represents	CHZZK (Q125118776)
Data type	External identifier
Example 1	BuzzBean (Q16166065)CHZZK streamer IDb171ba23d17440cc50b9e19a247f7749
Example 2	Lilka (Q97196881)CHZZK streamer ID4d0b7d3f825ea982b95f0a5c2b4782d3
Example 3	Reva (Q20945911)CHZZK streamer ID6ab86891e07489743437594c6e4dbf3a
Example 4	Enyeong (Q115528293)CHZZK streamer ID88899e9e0f295937447205941f5ef9b2
Allowed values	[0-9a-f]{32}
Source	Q136811612
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Implied notability	Wikidata property for an identifier that does not imply notability (Q62589320)
Formatter URL	https://chzzk.naver.com/$1
Country	South Korea (Q884)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

URL Format does not conform to UUIDv4 format (Specifically RFC 9562 section 4.1) - variant field does not conform to the 8,9,A,B as RFC dictates.
- b171 ba23-d174-40cc-50b9-e19a 247f 7749: CHZZK pseudo-UUID
- 6bdf b0d1-184e-4720-a2b7-f419 ffec 1a6a: Random UUIDv4 generated by uuid v4
- (Space inserted by me for readability, chzzk pseudo-uuid's - inserted by me also for readability.)
Anyway, while the current list of Q136811612 is rather small, there are some other non-streamer entity (corp) who owns an account there, and it is quite expected that the list will naturally grow, so proposing this one. — regards, Revi 11:15, 17 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Identifier

siège occupé (fr) – (Please translate this into English.)

Under discussion

Description	siège occupé par une personne au sein d'une académie ou autre société à numerus clausus (fr) – (Please translate this into English.)
Represents	société savante^(955824)
Data type	qualificatif-invalid datatype (not in Module:i18n/datatype)
Example 1	Louis Fourmaud^(12949549), fonction^(P39) = majoral du Félibrige^(56713150) → cigale d'Aquitaine^(126037836)
Example 2	Erik Orsenna^(288562), fonction^(P39) = membre de l'Académie française^(18705668) → fauteuil 17 de l'Académie française^(70495968)
Example 3	Xavier Daumalin^(129492432), fonction^(P39) = membre de l'Académie de Marseille^(138001924) → fauteuil 1 de l'Académie de Marseille^(123984552)
See also	circonscription électorale^(P768)

Notified participants of WikiProject Award. Maxime 15:05, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Notified participants of WikiProject France (puisque tous mes exemples concernent ce pays). Maxime 15:06, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Notified participants of WikiProject Learned Societies. Maxime 10:38, 12 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Oppose IMHO use subject has role (P2868) as qualifier instead of creating a new property. --Epìdosis 15:17, 3 February 2026 (UTC) P.S. I am going to open a broad discussion about how to model affiliations to learned societies before the end of this week, if I manage already this evening, listing all the (too many) options presently used and how to standardise them.[reply]
J'ai hâte de lire ces propositions, cher collègue. Maxime 10:31, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
In fact, reading again the examples, I agre with the comment below of @Baidax: that subject has role (P2868) is surely unsuitable; a solution could be using as a qualifier professorship (P803), which I would slightly prefer to creating a new property, so I change to Weak oppose. I am still preparing al the documentation regarding the modeling of affiliations to learned societies, it should be ready before the end of this week. --Epìdosis 16:32, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Il faudrait alors élargir le domaine de P803, car un siège au sein d'un académie n'a pas forcément de rapport avec l'université (ni même l'enseignement). Maxime 21:17, 6 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
@Maxime Ravel: it took a bit longer, but finally I have opened the discussion about the modeling of members of learned societies: Wikidata talk:WikiProject Learned Societies#Members of learned societies: too many conflicting data models. Epìdosis 22:35, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
I have continued reflecting on this and effectively professorship (P803) is not a good solution, and I have not found another one, so I finally change to Support, but specifying that I would use the property not as a qualifier of position held (P39) but as a qualifier of member of (P463) (cf. the general discussion on Learned Societies). --Epìdosis 16:06, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Weak support. I don’t see how subject has role (P2868) could be used here. It is precise enough for cases where assemblies have defined seats and where continuity between their occupants is documented. The proposal seems justified, for lack of a better option. — Baidax ^💬 15:59, 3 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
En effet Baidax, c'est faute de mieux que j'ai proposé ceci. Maxime 10:09, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

ecclesiastical title

Under discussion

Description	formal styles of address used for members of the clergy
Represents	ecclesiastical address (Q3562482)
Data type	Item
Example 1	Vasylyi Yoannovych Luhovenko (Q131607435)ecclesiastical titleierey (Q1250176)
Example 2	Hilarion (Alfeyev) (Q311928)ecclesiastical titlemetropolitan (Q189854)
Example 3	Dimitry Smirnov (Q4424662)ecclesiastical titleprotoiereus (Q1266260)
Allowed values	deacon (Q161944), protodeacon (Q1505768), ierey (Q1250176), protoiereus (Q1266260), hierodeacon (Q7198392), archdeacon (Q633730), hieromonk (Q1288557), hegumen (Q842781), archimandrite (Q213159), bishop (Q29182), archbishop (Q49476), metropolitan (Q189854), patriarch (Q171692)

Motivation

Для указания духовного сана сейчас используют свойство «занимаемая должность», что не является верным. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Павло Сарт (talk • contribs) at 22:31, 3 January 2025 (UTC).[reply]

Discussion

It looks reasonable as such but I would like to know how it works for other religions and denominations. Андрей Романенко (talk) 22:45, 9 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Africa register person ID

Under discussion

Description	Identifier for a nordic person in the africa register
Represents	Nordiske personer i Afrika under kolonitiden (Q116513722)
Data type	External identifier
Template parameter	no:Mal:Autoritetsdata
Domain	human (Q5)
Example 1	Kristian Løken (Q6437948) → 43c3fc56-1c82-429b-92e8-931e099385dc [1]
Example 2	Vilhelm Mariboe Aubert (Q7930183) → 97e4b1cb-a7b7-4ede-b250-533aec15b4f9 Aubert, Vilhelm Mariboe (1868 - 1908) - KulturNav
Example 3	→ ]
Example 4	→ ]
Allowed values	[0-9a-f]{8}\-[0-9a-f]{4}\-[0-9a-f]{4}\-[0-9a-f]{4}\-[0-9a-f]{12}
Source	https://soldater.no
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Planned use	In infoboxes ans authentications for biographies
Number of IDs in source	17500
Formatter URL	https://www.soldater.no/soldat/$1
See also	Norwegian war sailor register person ID (P4972), Vaare falne ID (P7717), Norwegian war refugees register ID (P5871) Norwegian prisoner register person ID (P8269)

Motivation

(Legg inn motivering/begrunnelse for forslaget til denne egenskapen her.)

Discussion

~~Support~~ Oppose Fix the proposal first please --Trade (talk) 06:13, 23 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Comment @Pmt: I don't understand your examples, you have some pointing to soldater.no and some to kulturnav.org; the formatter URL and other items in the template also are not consistent with all the examples. Please fix! ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:20, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

!uups This page or section is in the process of an expansion or major restructuring. You are welcome to assist in its construction by editing it as well. @ArthurPSmith: I have not completed the proposal and ~~had it transcluded. As far as I can see this proposal is not listed under Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control yet~~. (please correct me if I am wrong) Breg Pmt (talk) 17:44, 4 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID

Under discussion

Description	identifier for an item in the internet encyclopedia Kvinnehistorie.no
Represents	online encyclopedia (Q615699) internettensyklopedi
Data type	External identifier
Template parameter	identifier
Domain	All kind of types within items related to women's history (Q1279400)
Example 1	Sigrid Boo (Q4131954) → Sigrid Boo
Example 2	Eli Aanjesen (Q15972364) → Eli Aanjesen
Example 3	Hagbard Berner (Q955114) → Hagbart Emanuel Berner
Allowed values	[A-Za-z0-9_-]+
Source	https://www.kvinnehistorie.no/
Planned use	in Template:Authority control (Q3907614)
Number of IDs in source	33
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://www.kvinnehistorie.no/person/$1
Robot and gadget jobs	Mix 'n' Match
Applicable "stated in"-value	no label (Q136881278)
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

Usefull identifier for norvegian persons and for documenting norvegian female history (Legg inn motivering/begrunnelse for forslaget til denne egenskapen her.) – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Pmt (talk • contribs) at 17:15, November 20, 2025 (UTC).

Discussion

Support. --Wyslijp16 (talk) 16:10, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bergenga (talk) 20:42, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Comment 33 is a very small number for an external id in wikidata. Generally described at URL (P973) works for limited cases like this. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:50, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support Rzuwig^► 09:22, 23 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support. Geagea (talk) 12:04, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

‎WhatsOnStage Stage Names ID

Under discussion

Description	Identifier for a person on the WhatsOnStage website's Stage Names list
Represents	WhatsOnStage.com (Q24589983)
Data type	External identifier
Example 1	Aaron Tveit (Q321770) → aaron-tveit
Example 2	Cynthia Erivo (Q21592474) → cynthia-erivo
Example 3	Ellie Bamber (Q22683508) → ellie-bamber
Formatter URL	https://www.whatsonstage.com/stage-names/$1

Motivation

For information on theatre actors/performers (in UK theatre, mostly). – Starklinson 01:32 UTC

Discussion

Man8rove Person ID

Under discussion

Description	Unique alphanumeric identifier for a person profile on the Man8rove genealogy website.
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (human (Q5))
Example 1	Napoleon (Q517) → jjd5sspv
Example 2	Louis XVI of France (Q7732) → radaeqsj
Example 3	Victor Hugo (Q535) → 1vxtzc781
Allowed values	[a-z0-9]+
Formatter URL	https://man8rove.com/en/profile/$1

Motivation

Man8rove is a genealogy website providing structured profiles of historical and genealogical persons. This property would allow linking these profiles to Wikidata items, similarly to other genealogy-related identifiers such as Geni.com profile ID (P2600). The formatter URL resolves directly using a stable internal identifier; human-readable slugs are optional and handled via permanent redirects. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by JMatho (talk • contribs) at 20:07, December 21, 2025 (UTC).

In more languages

Proposed constraints

Type “”: element must contain property Parameter "relation" (empty) is not valid with classes or their subclasses (defined using subclass of (P279))

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/Property proposal/Person#Type

Single value: this property generally contains a single value.

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/Property proposal/Person#Single value, SPARQL

Format: value must be formatted using this pattern (PCRE syntax).
[a-z0-9]+

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/Property proposal/Person#Format

--JMatho (talk) 20:21, 21 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

This might be relevant: [2] [3] . Edit: If it's not clear why I'm saying this, freetext search for "man8rove" in the WD:AN link before casting a vote pl0x. Thank you! Infrastruktur (talk) 12:41, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Good detective work. It has convinced me to Oppose Vicarage (talk) 18:30, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose site notability is not established in the proposal, proposal is malformed and does not reflect AGF contribution. —Yamato Shiya^{大和士也} (Talk • Contribs) 03:24, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]
it is commendable for Pigsonthewing to assist (hat off and all that), but they took the time to review my initial post I doubt they would feel the same. Solicitation (especially for oneself) is never in good faith. Infrastruktur (talk) 16:27, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

‎People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID

Under discussion

Description	Creator ID from the People's Graphic Design Archive, an online database
Issued by	The People's Graphic Design Archive (Q130391455)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	item, human (Q5), organization (Q43229)
Example 1	Ikkō Tanaka (Q325697) → 2053
Example 2	W. E. B. Du Bois (Q158060) → 1222
Example 3	Barbara Wojirsch (Q117468471) → 8473
Allowed values	number (Q11563)
Number of IDs in source	~11236
Formatter URL	https://peoplesgdarchive.org/creative/$1

Motivation

Useful identifier mainly used for designers and artists which links to individual galleries. Hitsuji777 (talk) 11:43, 7 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

‎JMRC person id (he)

Ready ^Create

Description	Jewish Music Research Centre site id (Hebrew)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5), musician (Q639669), conductor (Q158852), pianist (Q486748), composer (Q36834), hazzan (Q1067977), singer (Q177220), musicologist (Q14915627), ethnomusicologist (Q17484288)
Example 1	Mary Even-Or (Q6599740) → content/מרי-אבן-אור
Example 2	Tzvi Avni (Q1349055) → node/11656
Example 3	Viktor Ullmann (Q78530) → content/ויקטור-אולמן
Example 4	Jacques Offenbach (Q41555) → node/10762
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Planned use	Q112118320
Number of IDs in source	400
Formatter URL	https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/he/$1
See also	Wikidata:Property proposal/JMRC person id (en)
Applicable "stated in"-value	Jewish Music Research Centre (Q137926261)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

The site contains useful info about large number of Jewish musicians. I already have a list of all 400 id's for Mix'n'match. The links divided to two kind:

https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/he/node/$1 $1=numerical id
https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/he/content/$2 $2=Hebrew letters id

so I the id contains the prefix node/ or content/ . This template Q137940727 is about the links but needed update. Anyway there are 139 links to this site that needs to be ordered. Geagea (talk) 12:48, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

the list of people - her Geagea (talk) 13:57, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support. Shinaimm (talk) 14:45, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support. רחביה (talk) 15:13, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support מקף־עברי (talk) 15:48, 30 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support אייל (talk) 11:45, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

‎JMRC person id (en)

Under discussion

Description	Jewish Music Research Centre site id (English)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5), musician (Q639669), conductor (Q158852), pianist (Q486748), composer (Q36834), hazzan (Q1067977), singer (Q177220), musicologist (Q14915627), ethnomusicologist (Q17484288)
Example 1	Mary Even-Or (Q6599740) → mary-even-or
Example 2	Tzvi Avni (Q1349055) → tzvi-avni
Example 3	Viktor Ullmann (Q78530) → viktor-ullmann
Example 4	Jacques Offenbach (Q41555) → jacques-offenbach
Example 5	Bessie Schonberg (Q2899920) → bessie-schonberg
Example 6	Marko Rothmüller (Q6771249) → aron-marko-rothmüller
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Number of IDs in source	408
Formatter URL	https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/en/$1
See also	Wikidata:Property proposal/JMRC person id
Applicable "stated in"-value	Jewish Music Research Centre (Q137926261)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

This property is for English biographies of Jewish musicians. The property for the biographies in Hebrew her. The site contains useful info about large number of Jewish musicians. I already have a list of all 408 id's for Mix'n'match. The links https://jewish-music.huji.ac.il/en/content/$1 $=Latin letters id (may contain Diaeresis (diacritic)). Anyway there are 199 links in the en.wiki and 34 id's in WD. And also in other languages.
the list of people - her Geagea (talk) 11:23, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:42, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Igromania author ID

Done: Igromania author ID (P14127) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier of the author of a review or news article in the Igromania database
Aliases	идентификатор автора Игромании (ru) – (Please translate this into English.)
Represents	Igromania (Q4197757)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5)
Example 1	Anton Lysenko (Q137945609)→1
Example 2	Alex Dominges (Q137945625)→2
Example 3	Alex Tarakanov (Q137945631)→8
Allowed values	[1-9]\d{0,3}
Source	https://www.igromania.ru
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Mix'n'match	7390
Planned use	I want Wikidata to have video game review, and not with author name string but author in review score qualifier.
Number of IDs in source	1102 (as of 31.01.2026)
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://www.igromania.ru/authors/$1
URL match pattern	^https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?igromania\.ru\/authors\/([1-9]\d{0,3})\/? ↳ web page title extract pattern (P10999) ^(.+?)\ \–\ автор статей и материалов на развлекательном портале Игромания$
See also	Igromania ID (P6827), Igromania company ID (P9832), Igromania series ID (P9835).
Applicable "stated in"-value	Igromania (Q4197757)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes
Wikidata project	WikiProject Video games (Q8485882)

Motivation

We already have

Igromania ID

Igromania company ID

Igromania series ID – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Vitaly Zdanevich (talk • contribs) at 07:22, January 31, 2026 (UTC).

Discussion

Support Unfortunately, there is no dedicated page where you can get the IDs, but I created a catalog in Mix'n'Match, and you can match them and add new ones (if they appear in the database) from there. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 05:57, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Nicereddy — 13:40, 04 May 2015 (UTC) Danrok — 18:20, 30 October 2015 (UTC) Lewis Hulbert — 20:26, 13 December 2017 (UTC) Santer — 22:03, 26 May 2018 (UTC) Kirilloparma — 00:30, 5 August 2018 (UTC) Cwf97 — 18:33, 22 October 2018 (UTC) YotaMoteuchi — 08:09, 22 May 2019 (UTC) CptViraj — 02:49, 17 September 2019 (UTC) BugWarp — 23:19, 26 October 2019 (UTC) WikiSyn — 21:52, 26 December 2019 (UTC) Cynde Moya — 16:07, 31 March 2020 (UTC) Dexxor — 14:51, 02 May 2020 (UTC) Floyd-out — 09:14, 22 July 2020 (UTC) Jean-Frédéric — 11:22, 11 September 2020 (UTC) A particle for world to form — 11:15, 17 May 2021 (UTC) Dollarsign8 — 01:40, 01 November 2021 (UTC) Wd-Ryan — 02:20, 03 October 2022 (UTC) Master Of Ninja — 17:37, 18 October 2022 (UTC) Matthias M. — 09:28, 12 February 2023 (UTC) VGPaleontologist — 21:03, 12 February 2023 (UTC) Tomodachi94 — 18:34, 26 February 2023 (UTC) thgiex — 12:17, 6 April 2023 (UTC) DoublePendulumAttractor — 17:48, 05 May 2023 (UTC) Metafire18 — 12:55, 21 August 2023 (UTC) applsdev — 18:44, 25 September 2023 (UTC) Cupkake4Yoshi — 06:54, 26 October 2023 (UTC) Eniehack — 07:56, 07 November 2023 (UTC) RampantSpirit — 17:59, 11 November 2023 (UTC) Macocobovi — 07:35, 22 November 2023 (UTC) EdoAug — 17:10, 02 January 2024 (UTC) Keplersj — 20:53, 10 February 2024 (UTC) Arlo Barnes — 23:48, 10 March 2024 (UTC) Odjob16 — 16:24, 21 June 2024 (UTC) CommanderKefir — 14:57, 17 September 2024 (UTC) Athayahisyam — 03:10, 15 October 2024 (UTC) SuperUltraHardCoreGamer — 11:25, 25 November 2024 (UTC) MicroTato — 15:13, 17 September 2025 (UTC) Jwillikers — 18:34, 24 October 2025 (UTC) Jakub Vrána — 6:38, 29 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Notified participants of WikiProject Video games. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 06:00, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
MasterRus21thCentury (talk) Infovarius (talk) MaksOttoVonStirlitz (talk) evs (talk) putnik (talk) Niklitov (talk) Redboston (talk) Arbnos (talk) Erokhin (talk) Андрей Романенко (talk) This is Andy (talk) Vladimir Solovjev (talk) Brateevsky (talk) Podbrushkin (talk) Butko (talk)
Notified participants of WikiProject Russia. Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 06:00, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Butko (talk) 06:29, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Erokhin (talk) 06:51, 4 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Support ―Applsdev (talk) (contribs) 10:50, 5 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Vitaly Zdanevich, Butko, Erokhin, applsdev Done: Igromania author ID (P14127). Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 06:10, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

‎African Scientists Directory ID

Done: African Scientists Directory ID (P14135) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for a scientist in the African Scientists Directory
Data type	Item
Example 1	Quarraisha Karim (Q17612495)African Scientists Dictionary IDabdool-karim-2
Example 2	Salim Abdool Karim (Q18161438)African Scientists Dictionary IDabdool-karim
Example 3	Thebe Medupe (Q7777608)African Scientists Dictionary IDmedupe
Mix'n'match	7626
Number of IDs in source	2350
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://africanscientists.africa/business-directory/$1/
Applicable "stated in"-value	African Scientists Directory (Q137947939)
Single-value constraint	yes
Wikidata project	AfroDemics (Q123956774)

Motivation

The African Scientists Directory was established in 2020 by the Academy of Science of South Africa (Q4671528) and the International Science Council (Q57587699) Regional Office for Africa (ISC ROA).[4]

There are about 2,350 entries in the register. Each entry includes brief biographical sketches and links to other identifiers, e.g. ORCID iD (P496), Google Scholar author ID (P1960), ResearchGate profile ID (P2038)

Harvesting the information held in the African Scientists Directory would help to expand coverage of African scientists, addressing systemic bias in Wikidata. This is a priority for the AfroDemics (Q123956774) WikiProject. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Dsp13 (talk • contribs) at 16:41, January 31, 2026 (UTC).

Discussion

Strong support: I strongly support the creation of the African Scientists Directory ID property. The directory is a credible and well-maintained resource established by authoritative institutions, (the Academy of Science of South Africa and the International Science Council Regional Office for Africa). Also, introducing a dedicated identifier will significantly enhance data reliability and verifiability on Wikidata by enabling consistent links to authoritative biographical records of African scientists. Lastly, I agree with the proposal that this identifier will expand Wikidata’s coverage by incorporating existing data from the directory and help reduce systemic bias on Wikidata. Ibjaja055 (talk) 00:18, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Strong supportI strongly support the creation of data Id 🆔 of the African scientists.it will enhance there data verifiability okve Linked 🔗 to there profile on Wikidata.Abike25
Strong support: I strongly support the African Scientists Directory ID property.It will helps African scientists to be seen, treated fairly, connected globally, and in control of their data—now and in the future.Bamjos
Strong support: I strongly support the creation of data IDs for African scientists. This will improve the accuracy and verifiability of their information by properly linking their profiles to Wikidata.Bembety
Strong support: I strongly support the creation of data IDs for African scientists. This will improve the accuracy and verifiability of their information.Dagentle
Support: This property will provide an identifier for many African scientists who do not feature in the authority files that we already use. Best, Reading Beans (talk) 09:28, 1 February 2026
Strong support: I strongly support the creation of African Scientists Directory ID property to improve Wikidata's accuracy, coverage, and reduce gaps on African scientists. Halima Waziri (talk) 10:06, 1 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support: I strongly support the creation of data ID for the African Scientist Directory. Orokbest1
Support mix'n'match catalog created. Gerwoman (talk) 06:26, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: @Gerwoman: the mix'n'match catalog looks flawed: the full matches do not look correct (the ORCIDs given as extracted from the African Scientists Directory are incorrect - is there an out-by-one indexing error in the extraction or something?) Dsp13 (talk) 01:47, 8 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
There were some incorrect entries, thank you. I've created a new catalog 7626 Gerwoman (talk) 06:13, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]
Strong support the creation of African scientists ID as it will help link Wikidata items to reliable and verifiable database.Atibrarian (talk) 18:08, 7 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done @Dsp13: Created as African Scientists Directory ID (P14135). Infrastruktur (talk) 12:36, 14 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

‎Bach digital person ID

Under discussion

Description	identifier for persons at the "Bach digital" project
Represents	Bach digital (Q19835087)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5)
Example 1	Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Q76428)→00001174
Example 2	Walter Zöllner (Q110223311)→00005589
Example 3	Gottfried Keiser (Q81932928)→00005683
Allowed values	\d+
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Formatter URL	https://www.bach-digital.de/receive/BachDigitalPerson_agent_$1
Applicable "stated in"-value	Bach digital (Q19835087)

Motivation

Bach digital is a project by the Bach Archiv that provides manuscripts and printed sheet music of the Bach family. The persons mentioned are composers, organists, church musicians, pastors, singers, librettists, printers, musicologists, editors, etc. Several hundred Wikidata items already have this property as a link under described at URL (P973) (all of which can be moved to the new property), and it is the source of many birth and death dates of Wikidata items of 18th-century musicians as well as musicologists, printers and publishers of the 18th to the 21st centuries. Another property proposal that I will write shortly will be "Wikidata:Property proposal/Bach digital work ID". --Anvilaquarius (talk) 17:06, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Comment (Fixed up the proposal and changed type from string to external identifier Jean-Fred (talk) 08:25, 10 February 2026 (UTC))[reply]

‎Letterboxd producer ID

Under discussion

Description	Identifier for film producers on Letterboxd.
Represents	Letterboxd (Q18709181)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	item, film producer (Q3282637)
Example 1	Mohanlal (Q2050534) → [5]
Example 2	Antony Perumbavoor (Q55604079) → [6]
Example 3	Mammootty (Q2721855) → [7]
Allowed values	Letterboxd username
Source	https://letterboxd.com
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [az] • [bn] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fa] • [fr] • [he] • [hi] • [it] • [ja] • [ka] • [kn] • [ko] • [ml] • [mr] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ro] • [ru] • [sv] • [te] • [tr] • [ur] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Planned use	To link film producers on Wikidata with their Letterboxd producer profiles.
Number of IDs in source	Several thousands
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://letterboxd.com/producer/$1/

Motivation

Letterboxd provides role specific profile pages for film producers under the /producer/ path. Many film producers do not have acting or directing credits, so existing Letterboxd actor ID and Letterboxd director ID do not accurately represent these individuals. A dedicated producer identifier allows precise linking between Wikidata items and Letterboxd producer profiles without implying other film roles. This improves data accuracy and consistency when modeling film production credits and external identifiers for people in the film industry. We also have Letterboxd film ID (P6127) and Letterboxd actor ID (P6119), which show that role specific external identifiers for people in film related contexts are already accepted on Wikidata. Mohanooty (talk) 14:51, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Full name

Profession

Work

‎heir apparent

Under discussion

Description	person designated to take on royal position after death of subject
Represents	heir apparent (Q2762318)
Data type	Item
Example 1	Hassanal Bolkiah I of Brunei (Q57327)→Al-Muhtadee Billah, Crown Prince of Brunei (Q431442)
Example 2	Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (Q367825)→Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud (Q6892571)
Example 3	Mohammed VI of Morocco (Q57553)→Moulay Hassan, Crown Prince of Morocco (Q276961)
Example 4	Charles III (Q43274)→William, Prince of Wales (Q36812)
Example 5	Guillaume V, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (Q161319)→Prince Charles of Luxembourg (Q93839274)
Example 6	Aabed-El ben Asher ben Matzliach (Q13485740)→Q137394543
Planned use	Add to monarchs with such an heir

Motivation

Very surprised this is not a property. It refers to an heir to a monarch or other hereditary position who will not be replaced in the event of a new birth. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Immanuelle (talk • contribs) at 17:18, December 15, 2025 (UTC).

Discussion

See also

Person

‎name starts with

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Discussion

perfumer

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Discussion

Xcity actress ID

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User account

‎CHZZK streamer ID

Motivation

Discussion

Identifier

siège occupé (fr) – (Please translate this into English.)

ecclesiastical title

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Discussion

The Africa register person ID

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Discussion

Kvinnehistorie.no persons ID

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Discussion

‎WhatsOnStage Stage Names ID

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Discussion

Man8rove Person ID

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Motivation

In more languages

Proposed constraints

Discussion

‎People's Graphic Design Archive creator ID

Motivation

Discussion

‎JMRC person id (he)

Motivation

Discussion

‎JMRC person id (en)

Motivation

Discussion

Igromania author ID

Motivation

Discussion

‎African Scientists Directory ID

Motivation

Discussion

‎Bach digital person ID

Motivation

Discussion

‎Letterboxd producer ID

Motivation

Discussion

Full name

Profession

Work

‎heir apparent

Motivation

Discussion