Wikidata:Property proposal/LGD State or UT Code

‎LGD State or UT Code[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: LGD State or UT Code (P12747) (Talk and documentation)

Description	code used for States and Union Territories by the Local Government Directory, a website run by the Government of India, which maintains directory of rural and urban local governments in India and their political territorial entities.
Represents	local government in India (Q13011949)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	states and union territories of India (Q131541)
Allowed values	\d{1,2}
Example 1	Andhra Pradesh (Q1159) -> 28
Example 2	National Capital Territory of Delhi (Q9357528) -> 7
Example 3	Mizoram (Q1502) -> 15
Source	https://lgdirectory.gov.in
Planned use	convert existing LGD local body code (P6425) on instances of states and union territories of India (Q131541) to this property. there are 36 of them.
Number of IDs in source	36
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
See also	LGD local body code (P6425), LGD Block Code (P12717), Indian census area code (2011) (P5578)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes
Wikidata project	WikiProject India (Q11037573)

Motivation[edit]

The pre-existing "LGD local body code" property which is used for various types of Indian administrative entities like states/districts/subdistricts has a couple of problems. Firstly the collision problem, there can be collision across various entity types( a state LGD code can be the same of another district's LGD code ). Secondly, there is also a problem where any block of West Bengal has 2 LGD codes, one as subdistrict and another as a block, this breaks the single value constraint. Creation of separate LGD State or UT code, LGD District Code, LGD Subdistrict Code, LGD Block Code etc would alleviate these problems. LGD State or UT Code is one of the separate identifiers which is to be used only for the State and Union Territory entities RamSeraph (talk) 13:44, 18 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]