Wikidata:Property proposal/The Cutting Room Floor ID

The Cutting Room Floor ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: The Cutting Room Floor ID (P8607) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier in The Cutting Room Floor wiki
Represents	The Cutting Room Floor (Q55635148)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	video game (Q7889)
Example 1	Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball (Q3438819) → Roger_Clemens'_MVP_Baseball_(SNES), Roger_Clemens%27_MVP_Baseball_(Genesis)
Example 2	Hover! (Q1364881) → Hover!_(1995)
Example 3	Final Fantasy VII (Q214232) → Final_Fantasy_VII
Example 4	Resident Evil 1.5 (Q10359825) → Proto:Resident_Evil_2_(PlayStation)/November_5,_1996_Prototype
Example 5	Tetris (Q3519191) → Tetris_(Game_Boy)
Example 6	Tetris (Q67387683) → Tetris_(Nintendo,_NES)
Example 7	Tetris (Q4050885) → Tetris_(Tengen,_NES), Tetris_(Vs._System)
Source	https://tcrf.net/Special:AllPages ; search formatter URL (P4354)=`https://tcrf.net/index.php?search=$1&title=Special%3ASearch&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1`
External links	Use in sister projects: [ar] • [de] • [en] • [es] • [fr] • [he] • [it] • [ja] • [ko] • [nl] • [pl] • [pt] • [ru] • [sv] • [vi] • [zh] • [commons] • [species] • [wd] • [en.wikt] • [fr.wikt].
Number of IDs in source	16 973 ref
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://tcrf.net/$1
Single-value constraint	no
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

The Cutting Room Floor (Q55635148) is a wiki dedicated to content cut from video games − with current 15K+ articles. Quite some usage on English Wikipedia. Their data-model is per-platform-realization, hence one of our Q7889 entry may map to more than one entry.

It also has a Proto: namespace for prototypes, probably not notable here in general (with the occasional exception, see example 5). Being a MediaWiki website, it also has a category system so we could also link Final Fantasy (Q12391356) → Category:Final Fantasy series or Category:GameCube games (Q8789750) → Category:GameCube_games)

(Originally suggested by User:Misc on Wikidata talk:WikiProject Video games). Jean-Fred (talk) 14:18, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Notified participants of WikiProject Video games

Discussion

If you want it as an external identifier, maybe we should have separate items for the versions of the games on different game systems, as they have different ID's here? ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:20, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@ArthurPSmith: Thanks for your comment! That situation is not uncommon, many external videogame IDs link to games-as-platform-realization rather than games-as-work − eg GameFAQs game ID (P4769), Metacritic ID (P1712), UVL game ID (P7555), OpenRetro Game Database ID (P7683), TheGamesDB game ID (P7622), OGDB game title ID (P7564)….

Adopting a more complex data-model, with potentially items for each platform-realization, is something some editors are thinking about very seriously, and we may end up doing that… But deciding on that will need a wide discussion, that has not quite started yet. So, personnally, I would agree (and part of my master-plan is to piggy-back on identifiers such as this one to do it), but we may or may not end up doing it. Jean-Fred (talk) 17:27, 11 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Support Valuable site definitely worth including. The split-by-platform debate can be held later; no reason for it to hold up adding TCRF. –IagoQnsi (talk) 16:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]