Wikidata:Property proposal/Subscribers

Subscribers

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

   Withdrawn

Description	list of subscribers for a book (mostly commemorative publication), or another creative work
Represents	Tabula gratulatoria (Q3979988)
Data type	Item
Domain	human (Q5)
Example 1	Mélanges de philosophie, de littérature et d'histoire ancienne offerts à Pierre Boyancé (Q65950106) → Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny (Q3292283), John Scheid (Q836784)
Example 2	Paris et l'Ile-de-France au temps des paysans (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) (Q65950191) → Paulette Cavailler (Q33697586)
Example 3	Working on Labor: Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen (Q65950264) → Maarten Prak (Q55621174)
Example 4	Grand Synagogue of Paris (Q1358886) → Gustave Samuel de Rothschild (Q3121371)
See also	commissioned by (P88)
Proposed by	Nomen ad hoc

Nomen ad hoc (talk) 20:13, 26 July 2019 (UTC).

Probably different from subscriber (Q28008243)? --Succu (talk) 21:05, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Sure. It rather deals with subscription business model (Q322948). Nomen ad hoc (talk) 10:55, 28 July 2019 (UTC).

•  Oppose Use author (P50) David (talk) 05:17, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
  • Well, dear David, a subscriber for a work generally does not figure among its authors - and vice versa... Nomen ad hoc (talk) 10:58, 28 July 2019 (UTC).
    • @Nomen ad hoc:The existing property can be used with any work, whether written by one or several authors.Thank you David (talk) 11:31, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
      • @ديفيد عادل وهبة خليل 2:: indeed, but what if a subscriber for a book is not one of its authors? Nomen ad hoc (talk) 11:36, 28 July 2019 (UTC).
        • I do not think there is a difference between them David (talk) 11:40, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
          • Of course there is... Nomen ad hoc (talk) 11:58, 28 July 2019 (UTC).

 Comment. On the suggestion of Thierry Caro, I've widden the property to all kinds of creative works. Nomen ad hoc (talk) 11:07, 28 July 2019 (UTC).

•  Support Well-defined and potentially useful to create sociological networks around a publication. Alexander Doria (talk) 19:26, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Support StudiesWorld (talk) 15:37, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
• Is the proposed label in English a mistranslation? I don't understand what it would mean for a book (or synagogue, as in one of the examples) to have "subscribers". --Yair rand (talk) 20:26, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
  • May be en:Subscription (finance) is mislinked here? --Succu (talk) 21:05, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose Subscriber lists (ie pre-publication funders/purchasers) for 19th century literary works often had more than 1000 names on them. Are we really proposing to systematically add that data here? If not, is only a tiny fraction of the subscriber list worth adding? Jheald (talk) 21:56, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
•  Oppose I think sponsor (P859) has a sufficiently close meaning to this that it could be used for this purpose, no? Or were subscribers intending to get a return on their investment? In which case investor (P1951) seems appropriate instead. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:26, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

  Ah, indeed; I didn't know this property, but it seems that it would apply (with some more aliases). Alexander Doria and StudiesWorld, who supported the proposal: any opinion? Nomen ad hoc (talk) 09:30, 31 July 2019 (UTC).

  Anyway I marked it as withdrawn; thanks for signaling this property. I'll add an example of subscriber there. Nomen ad hoc (talk) 06:43, 1 August 2019 (UTC).