Wikidata:Property proposal/footnote
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footnote[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic
Not done
| Description | for use in the references section of statements: to state which footnote of the source material supports the claim in question | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Represents | footnote (Q25424643) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Data type | string or monolingual text-invalid datatype (not in Module:i18n/datatype) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Domain | references | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Allowed values | conceivably a constraint similar to the one on page numbers | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Example 1 |
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| Example 2 | MISSING | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Example 3 | MISSING | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | any source material used in references for statements | ||||||||||||||||||||
| See also | volume (P478), chapter (P792), page(s) (P304) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikidata project | WikiCite (Q21831105) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Motivation[edit]
We have properties like volume (P478), chapter (P792), page(s) (P304), and others that allow to make a reference on a statement more specific than the work (book, article, etc.) indicated by properties like stated in (P248), DOI (P356), ISBN-13 (P212)—i.e., to make a reference to an element within a work. What seems to be missing, however, is an analogous property to refer to individual footnotes within works.
- To be discussed
- How do multiple such properties interact when used in the same reference, e.g., chapter (P792) and ‘footnote’ (Pxxx)—would it be understood that the footnote number is relative to the chapter?
- Should this property be more general so as to apply to endnotes (and maybe other kinds of notes) as well?
―BlaueBlüte (talk) 06:59, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
Discussion[edit]
Comment if we have this for footnotes we should have it for endnotes also; however, if it's a single property then how would one distinguish between footnotes and endnotes (some works use both)? Also I've read a number of books where the footnote is indicated just by a symbol (like '*') that is unique only to the page, and the same symbol on a different page refers to a new footnote. ArthurPSmith (talk) 19:44, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
Oppose Use comment (DEPRECATED) (P2315) instead. Midleading (talk) 03:04, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
Not done, no consensus of proposed property at this time based on the above discussion. Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 12:38, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
