Wikidata:Property proposal/Transportation

Property proposal:	Generic	Authority control	Person	Organization
	Creative work	Place	Sports	Sister projects
	Transportation	Natural science	Computing	Lexeme

See also

• Wikidata:Property proposal/Pending – properties which have been approved but which are on hold waiting for the appropriate datatype to be made available
• Wikidata:Properties for deletion – proposals for the deletion of properties
• Wikidata:External identifiers – statements to add when creating properties for external IDs
• Wikidata:Lexicographical data – information and discussion about lexicographic data on Wikidata

This page is for the proposal of new properties.

Before proposing a property

1. Search if the property already exists.
2. Search if the property has already been proposed.
3. Check if you can give a similar label and definition as an existing Wikipedia infobox parameter, or if it can be matched to an infobox, to or from which data can be transferred automatically.
4. Select the right datatype for the property.
5. Read Wikidata:Creating a property proposal for guidelines you should follow when proposing new property.
6. Start writing the documentation based on the preload form below by editing the two templates at the top of the page to add proposal details.

Creating the property

1. Once consensus is reached, change status=ready on the template, to attract the attention of a property creator.
2. Creation can be done 1 week after the creation of the proposal, by a property creator or an administrator.
3. See property creation policy.

On this page, old discussions are archived. An overview of all archives can be found at this page's archive index. The current archive is located at 2024/05.

Aviation

see also: WikiProject Aviation

Water transport

see also: WikiProject Ships

Railway

see also: WikiProject Railways

vehicle keeper marking (VKM)

   Under discussion

Description	code identifying owners of rolling stock in Europe
Data type	External identifier
Domain	rolling stock holder (Q1305580)
Allowed values	\d{2,5}
Example 1	Deutsche Bahn (Q9322)→DB
Example 2	Network Rail (Q1501071)→NRIL
Example 3	GEFCO (Q3093177)→GEFCO
Example 4	Rail Traction Company (Q3929547)→RTC
Example 5	Wascosa (Q15853695)→WASCO
Example 6	České dráhy (Q304944)→ČD
Example 7	Hellenic Train (Q7832852)→HTR
Example 8	Bobov Dol Power Plant (Q3441556)→TPPBD
Source	https://www.era.europa.eu/domains/registers/vkm_en
Planned use	To put it to the items, which are railway vehicle keepers
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Wikidata project	WikiProject Trains (Q53051)

Motivation

International identifer which is issued by European Union Agency for Railways (Q369273) and Intergovernmental Organisation for International Carriage by Rail (Q2333216). It is unique for each railway vehicle in Europe, can be used for databases of railway vehicle keeper (usually carrier, wagon owner, lease companies etc.). Cmelak770 (talk) 21:51, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

PLC (Primary Location Code)

   Under discussion

Description	PLC (Primary Location Code)
Represents	railway station (Q55488)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	railway station (Q55488)
Allowed values	[A-Z]{2}[0-9]{,5}
Example 1	Schifflange railway station (Q2900883)→LU66090
Example 2	Luxembourg railway station (Q801140)→LU10000
Example 3	Oostende railway station (Q2292734)→BE929
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Wikidata project	WikiProject Trains (Q53051)

Motivation

A PLC is a unique identifier of a Service Facility. PLCs are provided by a national Authority or an organization acting in the name of a national authority based on a strong standardized process. A PLC consists of a leading 2 letter abbreviation of the country and a 5 digit number of the SF. Source: https://railfacilitiesportal.eu/manuals/FAQs_for_RFP.pdf

Spaceflight

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