Wikidata:Property proposal/Minecraft username

Minecraft username

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

   Not done

Description	The username of a Minecraft account
Represents	human (Q5)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	Minecraft (Q49740)
Example	Markus Persson (Q266224) → Notch Jens Bergensten (Q167056) → jeb_ Nathan Adams (Q28153404) → Dinnerbone
Formatter URL	https://namemc.com/profile/$1

Motivation

Motivation

Minecraft username may be needed in addition to the Minecraft UUID identifier which I also proposed. This should be used as a qualifier to Minecraft username, or possibly the other way around like Twitter numeric ID is a qualifier to Twitter username. AntisocialRyan (talk) 16:31, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Discussion

•  Oppose I don't see how that's useful Germartin1 (talk) 09:28, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
•  Support This is useful in addition to the UUID because historically, usernames were used as identifiers from the game's release in 2011 up until 2018, when the legacy API for usernames was shut off. As a result, there are a number of sites which still use usernames as soft identifiers (such as URL slugs). For example, Markus Persson can be found at https://skinsmc.org/user/Notch and https://www.mcbans.com/player/Notch/. Usernames are unique, and relatively permanent (they can only be changed every 30 days, and most users rarely change them if ever). They are much more recognizable, and definitely worth storing in addition to the UUID (though admittedly, website username or ID (P554) would work just as well for that). Additionally, there could arise a scenario where someone's username is known but, due to account deletion, changed username, etc, the UUID cannot be determined. –IagoQnsi (talk) 18:14, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
  • Changing my stance to  Oppose after reading some of the later conversation. Use website username or ID (P554) instead. --IagoQnsi (talk) 17:06, 18 January 2021 (UTC)

 Support--Trade (talk) 14:57, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

@Trade: What? AntisocialRyan (talk) 18:36, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

Whoops--Trade (talk) 18:48, 23 October 2020 (UTC)

•  Strong oppose I'm unsure of the value in having minecraft IDs in Wikidata. However, my opposition here is specifically to this username property - please use website username or ID (P554) is a qualifier to the true ID property. It works fine for the scenarios of unknown ID because Wikidata has special values for those which you can still qualify. We do not want to keep repeating the same mistake that was made with twitter identifiers because having two properties just introduces much more potential for orphaned data and mistakes/confusion. --SilentSpike (talk) 23:55, 1 December 2020 (UTC)

What is stopping us from simply replacing the Twitter identifier with it's numeric identifier? @SilentSpike: --Trade (talk) 23:40, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

@Trade: I don't want to go too off topic in this proposal, so all I'll say here is "inertia". If it had been numeric from the start there'd be no issue, but now users of the name property inhibit its replacement. This is why I will strong oppose any similar proposal. --SilentSpike (talk) 18:42, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

•  Oppose Are there actually enough Minecraft users with Wikidata items to justify this? Trivialist (talk) 22:57, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
  • Plenty have been given Minecraft UUID. AntisocialRyan (talk) 23:49, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

 Not done Clearly opposed. JesseW (talk) 19:21, 18 March 2021 (UTC)