Wikidata:Property proposal/Washington Place Names ID

Washington Place Names ID

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place

Descriptionidentifier for a place in Washington Place Names
RepresentsWashington Place Names (Q105825627)
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainitem; geographic location (Q2221906), toponym (Q7884789)
Allowed values[1-9]\d*
Example 1Aberdeen (Q233808)68
Example 2Kittitas County (Q111540)3814
Example 3Lopez Island (Q49654708)6089
Example 4Tiger Mountain (Q7801446)4974
Example 5Pullman (Q983540)7829
Example 6Lake Union (Q1993203)4065
Example 7Ballard (Q3428047)390
Example 8Point No Point (Q7208096)7666
Example 9Strait of Juan de Fuca (Q867627)4294
Sourcehttps://cdm17061.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17061coll4/search
Planned usewill add to items for places as encountered
Number of IDs in source8,717 listed at https://cdm17061.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17061coll4/search/
Expected completenesseventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URLhttps://cdm17061.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p17061coll4/id/$1

Motivation

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Washington Place Names is an online geographic dictionary and gazeteer for places in Washington State. The resource includes information about places in Washington and the origin of their names. This is a primary source of information for place names of the state. UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 18:53, 8 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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