Wikidata:Property proposal/World Biographical Information System ID

World Biographical Information System ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

Done: WBIS ID (P8081) (Talk and documentation)

Description	identifier for biographical reference works
Represents	World Biographical Information System Online (Q2593612)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	human (Q5)
Allowed values	[A-Z]\d+-\d-\w+
Example 1	Lodewijk de Bils (Q55904594) > L005-265-X
Example 2	Edwin Pearson (Q21166194) > B137346
Example 3	Abraham Johan Daniël Steenstra Toussaint (Q60429663) > O81938
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	Mix'n'match #582
Number of IDs in source	5779903
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://wbis.degruyter.com/biographic-document/$1

Motivation

WBIS Online is the most comprehensive biographical database available, providing biographical information on over 6 Million people from the 8th century B.C. to the present. Included are 8.5 Million digital facsimile articles from biographical reference works. Wetzdata (talk) 15:44, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Support AndrewNJ (talk) 18:45, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Vidariv (talk) 21:45, 25 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, it appears to require a login to see anything... ArthurPSmith (talk) 17:53, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- Yes, it's quite poorly conceived in many respects. It's available to anyone at German public libraries, and most universities have a subscription, so I think there's still some value in using it as authority control. AndrewNJ (talk) 20:09, 26 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support Unfortunately paywalled, but still useful. --Epìdosis 15:11, 31 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Wetzdata, AndrewNJ, Vidariv, ArthurPSmith, Epìdosis: Done --Tinker Bell ★ ♥ 23:29, 6 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]