Wikidata:Requests for comment/Items for external links
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
- Not an RfC discussion --Emu (talk) 12:14, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
| An editor has requested the community to provide input on "Items for external links" via the Requests for comment (RFC) process. This is the discussion page regarding the issue.
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THIS RFC IS CLOSED. Please do NOT vote nor add comments.
Many articles involve links to articles in news sites or other resources (in the "external links" section or as references). Linking usually required citing with some metadata. Perhaps moving it to Wikidata will create more order. Some articles are cited in more than one article. It could also help getting insights on the external resources used by wikipedians. It will probably work similar to the way the properties for social media accounts works: a property noting what site contains it, an ID to the article and some additional qualifiers, for the writer, date of publishing, etc. It could also be used for academic papers and books. Still, for general links a solution is needed, maybe a multiple mandatory values property. And still, making wikipedians to use it, instead of the traditional way is still a challenge, but I guess that making them use the current features also took time, and still there are templates for using the non-Wikidata data retrieval solution, but Wikidata is widely used. Galzigler (talk) 17:21, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
- @Galzigler: There's nothing that prevents you from creating items for articles on Wikidata. Whether or not using Wikidata as a reference depends on the policy of a particular Wiki and not on Wikidata. A RfC on Wikidata can't change the local policies of individual Wikis and is thus the wrong place to get change. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 21:02, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
Info I propose to close this RfC as improper issue for RfC after 31 January 2024. Please comment if you don’t agree. --Emu (talk) 20:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)