Wikidata:Property proposal/Washington Place Names ID

Washington Place Names ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place

   Done: Washington Place Names ID (P9330) (Talk and documentation)

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

Motivation

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)

Discussion

Thierry Caro Fuzheado

Notified participants of WikiProject United States

•  Support --Jala360 [Comments: I support the implementation of properties that encourage entities built around IDs, no matter if the ID is local or national, as long as the ID can be used by anyone anywhere] 20:44, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Pteropotamus (talk) 10:36, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
•  Support Emwille (talk) 15:07, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
•  Support --Crystal Clements, University of Washington Libraries (talk) 17:29, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
•  Support. Thierry Caro (talk) 06:06, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
• @UWashPrincipalCataloger, Jala360, Pteropotamus, Emwille, Clements.UWLib:  Done as Washington Place Names ID (P9330). Thierry Caro (talk) 17:18, 19 March 2021 (UTC)