Wikidata:Property proposal/eBird taxon ID

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eBird taxon ID[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

   Done: eBird taxon ID (P3444) (Talk and documentation)
Descriptionidentifier for a species or subspecies, in the eBird database
Data typeExternal identifier
Domainbirds
Example
  1. Gray Catbird (Q831597) - ((Dumetella carolinensis) -> grycat
  2. Western Osprey (Q25332) - (Pandion haliaetus) -> osprey
  3. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis (Q27604874) -> osprey1
Sourcehttp://ebird.org
Formatter URLhttp://ebird.org/ebird/map/$1
Motivation

eBird (Q5322614) is a highly-regarded online database of bird observations, organised by species or sub-species (see examples). Operated by Cornell Lab of Ornithology (Q2997535) and National Audubon Society (Q1646000), it has global coverage (see example 2). Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:32, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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 Support looks good to me. I pinged the taxonomy folks to let them weigh in. ArthurPSmith (talk) 18:14, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Support Me too. Anyone contact wikiproject birds?....Pvmoutside (talk) 19:04, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Comment Yes, @Pvmoutside: I did: WP Project Birds: Proposal to use eBird taxon ID's in Wikidata. –Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 19:36, 28 December 2016 (UTC).[reply]
 Comment For what purpose? Not appropriate as a source of vernacular names as uses unacceptable Americanisation of names of non-American birds (considered very offensive cultural imperialism in e.g. UK, Australia, etc.) - if used, names must be tagged en-us, not en. MPF (talk) 19:32, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@MPF: Who is proposing this database as a source of vernacular names? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:38, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Pigsonthewing: no-one has said what it is to be used for; vernacular name harvest is one possibility that I had to consider. - MPF (talk) 22:30, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose as above, I don't recognise {{sic}] Gray Heron as a UK bird. A US-based project that of course only accepts US spellings Jimfbleak (talk) 20:12, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Jimfbleak: Just to be clear: you're opposing the use of an ID from an American database because that database uses American spelling? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:36, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Well, once upon a time, a user suggested a property for ARKive: this is now used on a very wide scale as a source for vernacular names. - Brya (talk) 12:45, 29 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Support Would be valuable contribution to taxonbar on enwiki William Avery (talk) 23:41, 28 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
 Support Looks fine to me. I am not too concerned about the vernacular name issue. It's more important to have the scientific name right. Cheer Scott Thomson (Faendalimas) talk 03:59, 31 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

✓ Done @Pigsonthewing, ArthurPSmith, Pvmoutside, Tommy Kronkvist, MPF:@Jimfbleak, Brya, William Avery, Faendalimas, YULdigitalpreservation:@RileyBugz:--Micru (talk) 21:31, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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