Wikidata:Property proposal/Who's Who of American Comic Books

Who's Who of American Comic Books[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

Done: Who's Who of American Comic Books ID (P6936) (Talk and documentation)

Description	Identifier for creators and publishers in the Who's Who of American Comic Books
Represents	Who's Who of American Comic Books (Q64212354)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5), publisher (Q2085381)
Allowed values	string pattern
Example 1	Jack Kirby (Q311607) → KIRBY,+JACK
Example 2	Lily Renée (Q6548560) → PETERS,+LILLY
Example 3	Mirage Studios (Q2623393) → MIRAGE+STUDIOS
Source	http://www.bailsprojects.com/whoswho.aspx
Mix'n'match	2502
Planned use	Connect Wikidata items to Who's Who entries (through the Mix'n'Match tool), provide sources and inspiration for Wikipedia articles
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=$1

Motivation[edit]

This database, which started as a print publication in the 1970s, is ground zero for most knowledge of comic book creators of the entire first half of the time period it covers (1928-1999), when most comics were published without credits. It is also a thorough survey of mainstream, alternative, underground, and imported/translated comics creators of the latter half of that time period. The database is considered complete since its founder passed away in 2006 and ever since has been under the stewardship of the Grand Comics Database (Q3775045), so it is unlikely to become defunct any time soon. LadiesMakingComics (talk) 18:58, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]