Wikidata:Property proposal/part number

part number

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

   Not done

Description	the item's part number
Represents	identifier (Q853614)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	property
Allowed units	a string that contains numbers and/or letters
Example 1	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (Q66481199) → HDT90ZFBK6DGR (OEM number), HDT90ZFBGRBOX (boxed number)
Example 2	AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX (Q56062941) → YD299XAZUIHAF (OEM number), YD299XAZAFWOF (boxed number)
Example 3	Core i5-760 (Q15223620) → BV80605001908AN (OEM number), BX80605I5760 (boxed number, english version), BXC80605I5760 (boxed number, english version)
Source	en:Part number
Planned use	Add to every item for which a part number can be found

Motivation

While working on CPUs, I noticed that this property does not seem to exist. I had primarly CPUs in mind, but I'm sure there are a lot more items that have a part number in real life.
However, as shown in the example, there can be more than one part number for the same productname. So you have to be able to add some sort of referece to the information (eg. "OEM" or "boxed" or something like that) --D-Kuru (talk) 17:22, 16 August 2019 (UTC)

Discussion

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•  Question It’s unclear to me if this is really workable. It seems reading the enwiki article that the consumer of the product may use a different number than the producer itself for example. Your difference in the part number type may come either of this, for example if the processor is used on, say, a samsung laptop and samsung gave its own part number something like

  ⟨ Samsung laptop model XYZ ⟩ has part Search ⟨ processor I42 ⟩
  part number Search ⟨ ABCDEF ⟩

(in such a case we don’t have to discriminate between the user part number to the manufacturer one because it’s used by a user in a design)

Or … there is several numbers because there is subdesigns by the manufacturer of the same processor, in which case it may be possible to subclass the processor model item with fresh new items to reflect that, with their own properties and values to reflect the differences. author  TomT0m / talk page 19:25, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

As far as I know the CPU type has a unique ID that changes under some conditions. The manufacturer is not such a condition - at least as far as I know. Since the ID is unique to every processor type I switched the datatype to external-id. It seems that the different numbers are more to indicate which segment of the global market is targeted. If the CPUs ID is ABC1 in the boxed version you will not find an appropriate CPU when it is labled ABC2. Even they are actually the same die under the hood. I don't think that a new item is really the route to go if there is just a different ID, but all other values stay the same. You don't create a new item for every version of some program, do you? --D-Kuru (talk) 20:58, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

 Question Is this at all related to Global Trade Item Number (P3962)? See also the discussion on this old proposal. ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:50, 19 August 2019 (UTC)

Yes and now I would say. The part number is not the European Article Number. There is no bar code on the processor. But it's shares some properties since it's also a unique ID for every product. --D-Kuru (talk) 21:00, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

•  Support given that it's distinct from the EAN. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 07:46, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
•  Question for me it's unclear if it is different from the stock keeping unit (Q399757) given by the manufacturer? Dom (talk) 09:39, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

stock keeping units are retailer codes that track price, manufacturer and product information of the product and are used to track sales. The part number is more like a barcode. An individual code for certain product types. Since it's not about tracking - at least not that I know - they are different in my opinion --D-Kuru (talk) 16:26, 25 November 2019 (UTC)

 Support. Thanks for the explanation. We probably need to add it in the property once it is created to disambiguate between both properties. GNUtoo (talk) 20:47, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

 Question Currently the linked CPU page use serial number (P2598) which is explicitly not for that purpose: "Not a product code or model number". To me it seems a property that can be used together with existing stock keeping unit (Q399757), part number (Q3879409) and product code (Q57446692) is needed.  – The preceding unsigned comment was added by F-ludwig (talk • contribs).

Good point. I added corresponding property constraints at Property:P2598#P2302. --- Jura 11:31, 19 July 2020 (UTC)

•  Strong oppose subject item is in source field: part number (Q3879409) ; not "property" domain ; RegEx field empty ; etc. I give this opinion to avoid that a new property is created in this way, sorry. —Eihel (talk) 00:25, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

 Not done This has been sitting around for way too long, and appears to lack consensus. JesseW (talk) 21:57, 13 March 2021 (UTC)