Wikidata:Property proposal/Who's Who
Who's Who ID[edit]
Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control
| Description | identifier in "Who's Who" or "Who Was Who" |
|---|---|
| Represents | Who's Who (Q2567271) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | human (Q5) |
| Allowed values | U[1-9]\d{5} |
| Example | Walter Greaves-Lord (Q21557444) → U226108 |
| Source | http://www.ukwhoswho.com/ |
| 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]. |
| Planned use | Backfill on some MPs |
| Formatter URL | http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/$1 |
- Motivation
Who's Who is a major UK reference work, which has published short biographical summaries of notable people since 1849, mostly but not all British. All current + past subjects are listed in the electronic version, for a total of just under 100,000 individuals, a third of whom are living. Unlike a lot of the newer commercial publications using the name, entries are filtered by an editorial staff for notability.
It is particularly useful for "middling" figures who do not appear in other reference works - judges, backbench politicians, and so on; around 850 enwiki articles cite it as a source.
Unfortunately it is a subscription resource, not a publicly readable one, but as with Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID (P1415) it is accessible to most UK readers with public library cards, and nonsubcribers see enough of the entry to at least clearly identify the subject and confirm they're listed. Andrew Gray (talk) 19:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
- Discussion
Support David (talk) 16:02, 21 January 2018 (UTC)- Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 16:42, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support however should the name include "UK" (UK Who's Who) or otherwise clearly identify this for the original work that has a suitable notability filter? ArthurPSmith (talk) 05:42, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
- Support. YULdigitalpreservation (talk) 17:23, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
