Wikidata:Property proposal/WSJ article ID

The Wall Street Journal article ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: WSJ article ID (P11614) (Talk and documentation)

Description	unique identifier of an article on The Wall Street Journal
Represents	The Wall Street Journal (Q164746)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	article (Q191067)
Allowed values	^(SB[0-9]{10,41}|[A-Z]{2}-[A-Z]{3}-[0-9]{5,10})$
Example 1	Alameda, FTX Executives Are Said to Have Known FTX Was Using Customer Funds (Q115184709) → WP-WSJ-0000350237
Example 2	PG&E Bankruptcy Protections Could Mean Less Money for Wildfire Victims (Q114385792) → SB10662303665469894532704585653770242966034
Example 3	Red Sox, Manager Alex Cora Part Ways After Sign-Stealing Scandal (Q115584823) → SB10578488405656114843704586141350525227090
Example 4	Convenience-Store Giants Couche-Tard, EG Group in Deal Talks (Q114685803) → SB12210590376247964229504588511900894343548
Planned use	Backfilling the property for all WSJ articles on WD (~6000)
Number of IDs in source	6100 (currently, expect growth)
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Formatter URL	https://www.wsj.com/articles/$1
Applicable "stated in"-value	The Wall Street Journal (Q164746)
Single-value constraint	yes
Distinct-values constraint	yes

Motivation

The Wall Street Journal provides a unique ID for its articles. It can be used to get the article's page by its ID (thourgh the URL: https://wsj.com/articles/<id>), call their article APIs, but more importantly, it can be very helpful on Wikidata to track duplicates.

We're currently using article ID (P2322) for it, but there are some issues with it:

1. The current format of the property doesn't allow dashes, so it raises an error when we use it for WSJ article ID.
2. There's no constraint of uniqueness on article ID (P2322).

One way we can retrieve it is through the source code of the page: the meta HTML tag article.id in the header of the page has its value. Example: <meta name="article.id" content="WP-WSJ-0000396432">

I will run a script to update all the current articles if the property is approved. Deansfa (talk) 05:14, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

P.S: the examples above are WSJ articles used in Wikipedia articles as references with Template:Bibliographie on the French Wikipedia or with Template:Cite Q on the English Wikipedia

Discussion

•  Support (@ArthurPSmith: Sorry that you got confused by Deansfa supporting their own proposal.) Mahir256 (talk) 19:12, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
•  Support Yirba (talk) 11:53, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

•  Done as WSJ article ID (P11614) @Deansfa: Infrastruktur (talk) 08:09, 22 February 2023 (UTC)