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Qualifiers “retrieved (P813), pseudonym (P742), married name (P2562), birth name (P1477), subject named as (P1810), reason for deprecated rank (P2241), official name (P1448), different from (P1889), applies to name of subject (P5168), identifier shared with (P4070), applies to part (P518), intended subject of deprecated statement (P8327), reason for preferred rank (P7452), alternative name (P4970), start time (P580), end time (P582)”: this property should be used only with the listed qualifiers. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P214#allowed qualifiers, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Conflicts with “instance of (P31): Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410), Wikimedia category (Q4167836), Wikimedia list article (Q13406463), discography (Q273057), family name (Q101352)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P214#Conflicts with P31, hourly updated report, SPARQL

Conflicts with “subclass of (P279)”: this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (Help)

List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P214#Conflicts with P279, hourly updated report, search, SPARQL

Distinct values: this property likely contains a value that is different from all other items. (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303). Known exceptions: Mohican State Forest (Q49330830), Mohican State Park (Q6894163), British Ceylon (Q918153), Dominion of Ceylon (Q2670092)
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P214#Unique value, SPARQL (every item), SPARQL (by value)

Error reports

Contact:

See en:Wikipedia:VIAF/errors. Please note that VIAF retrieves Wikidata mappings periodically and rebuilds their clusters based on that (at least for items about persons). VIAF identifiers can be merged based on that or component moved to other VIAF identifiers.

Ideally this information should be moved to the item for the reference and be transcluded from there.

Reports:
Error type	Item(s) affected	Description/Duplicates	Exception	Reported	Resolved (also unpublished)	Resolved and published	Wikidata updated
	Our Lady of Victory Church (Q1280925)	The VIAF ID is linking to the wrong item, it's for something in a completely different country. VIAF originally had a different (probably correct) ID but changed it for some reason.
	Manoel Theatre (Q576800)	The item has two IDs which should be merged. The BIBSYS ID linked from 289802221 is wrong.

Pattern ^th\[((n|nb|nr|no|ns|sh|gf)([4-9][0-9]|00|20[0-2][0-9])[0-9]{6})$ will be automatically replaced to \1 and moved to Library of Congress authority ID (P244) property.
Testing: TODO list

Pattern ^([1-9]\d{1,8}|[1-9]\d{18,21})\/$ will be automatically replaced to \1.
Testing: TODO list

Summary report by property only

This property is being used by:

Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

Conflations

See Help:Conflation of two people

Known errors awaiting correction

Wikidata:WikiProject Authority control/VIAF errors

Discussion

is works allowed

Latest comment: 3 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

there are 2 viaf "works" ids (313489122 and 3289160245354852640008) and "personal name" id (77123727) associated with Mary Dickenson-Auner (Q1719083). is it acceptable to add works id? —Ashtamatrikas (talk) 13:08, 19 September 2021 (UTC)Reply

No, a person and her/his works are different items. --Kolja21 (talk) 15:21, 22 December 2021 (UTC)Reply

please add a query to count the number of items with VIAF ID's

hi! i added hundered of LibraryThing Author ID values manualy during the last months.

beside a query for this property (VIAF ID) please add also similar queries at LibraryThing Author ID, GND ID, WorldCat ID, Jewish encyclopedia ID, YIVO encyclopedia ID and step by step to many others especially to properties related to Esperanto, Yiddish, Icelandic, Romanian. thanks in advance!

please add also

a sample query to ifentify the person where a particulary value is used. please use the value added to Plato (Q859).

please add a query to list persond where the property VIAF ID is used and links to dewiki are available

please add a query to list persond where the property VIAF ID is missing and links to dewiki are available

thanks in advance gangleri 14:28, 22 February 2022 (UTC) 62.54.176.88

Instable VIAF ID

Latest comment: 2 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

OLD https://viaf.org/viaf/15158367786101282555/ 100 1 _ ‎‡a Fronto, Marcus Cornelius,‏ ‎‡d umbes 100-umbes 160. https://viaf.org/processed/ERRR%7Ca12096635
NEW https://viaf.org/viaf/73172818716812651427/ 100 1 _ ‎‡a Fronto, Marcus Cornelius,‏ ‎‡d umbes 100-umbes 160. https://viaf.org/processed/ERRR%7C12096635

Lorenz Karsten (talk) 10:34, 23 October 2024 (UTC)Reply

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