Wikidata:Property proposal/The Literary Encyclopedia work ID

The Literary Encyclopedia work ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

Done: The Literary Encyclopedia work ID (P11932) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for a work in The Literary Encyclopedia
Represents	The Literary Encyclopedia (Q7747554)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	written work (Q47461344)
Allowed values	[1-9]\d*
Example 1	The Man Who Loved Children (Q7749958) → 238
Example 2	The Invisible Man (Q1539509) → 493
Example 3	The Interpreters (Q3772120) → 496
Example 4	Tartuffe (Q205875) → 4060
Example 5	Invisible Man (Q1784288) → 4394
Example 6	Beloved (Q971767) → 6382
Example 7	Existentialism and Humanism (Q1247929) → 11104
Example 8	The Mandarins (Q1214721) → 11127
Example 9	The Threepenny Opera (Q212495) → 12223
Example 10	Mister President (Q3050361) → 14914
Example 11	The Happy Isles of Oceania (Q7738823) → 20913
Example 12	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Q47209) → 22077
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	4717 (as of July 10, 2023)
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=$1
See also	The Literary Encyclopedia person ID (P11870)
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 9539 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 examples 6-7, 9-10, and 12 above), and even the articles that are not fully accessible without a subscription include useful viewable information about works (e.g., dates, places, genres). There are currently 4717 descriptive-critical analyses of works. AdamSeattle (talk) 19:31, 10 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]