Wikidata:Property proposal/lifespan

‎lifespan

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

   Not done

Description	duration of a person's known or recorded lifespan
Data type	Monolingual text
Domain	human (Q5)
Allowed values	^P(\d+Y)?(\d+M)?(\d+W)?(\d+D)?(T(\d+H)?(\d+M)?(\d+S)?)?$
Example 1	subject→value
Example 2	subject→value
Example 3	subject→value
Single-value constraint	yes

Motivation

This property is record the known or recorded lifespan of a deceased person, formatted as an ISO 8601 time duration string.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sarcanon (talk • contribs).

Discussion

•  Oppose per Ghouston on the project chat who suggests using age of subject at event (P3629) as a qualifier on date of death (P570). Probably we may use multiple P3629 qualifiers to record successively years, months and days. --Jahl de Vautban (talk) 08:49, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

   Oppose I agree, especially as only a very small fraction of people will need it, and those mostly in antiquity where an accuracy of years is generally sufficient. Slightly uncomfortable with coding 3 years 2 months, but not worth a whole new property. Vicarage (talk) 17:53, 5 August 2024 (UTC)

•  Comment If this is created, it should have property constraints that give big warnings if this exists at the same time as either birth or death date. Ainali (talk) 19:05, 5 August 2024 (UTC)
•  Not done: Per lack of support. --Wüstenspringmaus _talk 13:48, 13 August 2024 (UTC)