Wikidata:Property proposal/The Literary Encyclopedia person ID

The Literary Encyclopedia person ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

Done: The Literary Encyclopedia person ID (P11870) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for an author in The Literary Encyclopedia
Represents	The Literary Encyclopedia (Q7747554)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5)
Allowed values	[1-9]\d*
Example 1	James Agee (Q352963) → 46
Example 2	John Arbuthnot (Q435816) → 138
Example 3	Emily Dickinson (Q4441) → 1259
Example 4	Elinor Glyn (Q447240) → 1773
Example 5	Knut Hamsun (Q40826) → 1966
Example 6	Tzvetan Todorov (Q313852) → 4408
Example 7	Dorothy West (Q371930) → 4929
Example 8	Sarah Waters (Q237555) → 11906
Example 9	José Martí (Q103285) → 13470
Example 10	Doric Germain (Q3037035) → 13498
Source	https://www.litencyc.com/
Planned use	adding this identifier to items for authors being created or edited; may be a candidate for Mix'n'match?
Number of IDs in source	3925 (as of June 20, 2023)
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=$1
Applicable "stated in"-value	The Literary Encyclopedia (Q7747554)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation[edit]

From the overview on its website, "First published in September 2000, The Literary Encyclopedia (Q7747554) provides 9520 articles about world literatures in English, amounting to 20 million words. It grows by 20-30 articles per month and is written and edited by university specialists who own the publication collectively." The encyclopedia publishes biographies of major and minor writers, as well as scholarly descriptions of all interesting texts written by these authors, and a variety of descriptive and critical essays on literary, cultural, and historical matters. Although this is a subscription-based resource, it makes some articles freely accessible each month (see the Emily Dickinson, José Martí, Knut Hamsun, and Tzvetan Todorov examples above), and even the articles that are not fully accessible without a subscription include useful viewable biographical information about those persons. AdamSeattle (talk) 22:54, 20 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]