Wikidata:Property proposal/Indian Railways station code
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Indian Railways station code
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic
Description | code to identify a railway station operated by Indian Railways |
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Data type | External identifier |
Template parameter | "code" in en:Template:Indian railway code (in en:Template:Infobox station) |
Domain | railway station (Q55488)'s in India (Q668) |
Allowed values | [A-Z]+ |
Example 1 | Howrah railway station (Q986105) → HWH |
Example 2 | Gede railway station (Q5529666) → GEDE |
Example 3 | Amritsar railway station (Q16868931) → ASR |
Example 4 | Bhagat Ki Kothi railway station (Q16971508) → BGKT |
Source | various Wikipedia articles and references from the Indian government as may be found regarding this property |
Planned use | add this to items for stations (especially a great deal which only have sitelinks to urwiki) |
Number of IDs in source | as many as there have been railway stations in India—around 8,000, perhaps? |
Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
Robot and gadget jobs | not yet, though this is surely possible |
See also | Amtrak station code (P4803), ESR station code (P2815), China railway TMIS station code (P1378) |
Motivation
[edit]The presence of this identifier is motivated by similar identifiers for the United States (Amtrak station code (P4803)), Russia/the USSR (ESR station code (P2815)), and China (China railway TMIS station code (P1378))—the three countries with national rail networks larger than that of India. Mahir256 (talk) 04:10, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]- Support - Bodhisattwa (talk) 04:31, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support. However, I note that en:Template:Indian railway code does not exist. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:58, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
- @Pigsonthewing: Fixed (capitalization issue). Also a lot of the station codes are indeed present on those items using the generic station code (P296) property. Mahir256 (talk) 22:02, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Geogast (talk) 00:45, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
- Support --Micru (talk) 20:25, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
@Micru, Bodhisattwa, Geogast, Pigsonthewing, Mahir256: Done: Indian Railways station code (P5696). − Pintoch (talk) 19:45, 22 August 2018 (UTC)