Property talk:P405

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taxon author
the author(s) that (optionally) may be cited with the scientific name
Descriptionauthor(s) of the first scientific description
Representstaxon author(Q113553809)
Data typeItem
Domain
According to this template: taxon
According to statements in the property:
taxon(Q16521)
When possible, data should only be stored as statements
Allowed valuesPersons (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Exampletiger(Q19939)Carl Linnaeus(Q1043)
Siluriformes(Q59576)Georges Cuvier(Q171969)
dinosaur(Q430)Richard Owen(Q151556)
brown recluse spider(Q284352)Willis J. Gertsch(Q955086)
Stanley B. Mulaik(Q22114001)
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Tracking: usageCategory:Pages using Wikidata property P405(Q22914810)
See alsoauthor(P50),ex taxon author(P697),author citation (zoology)(P835),taxon author citation(P6507),named by(P3938),year of publication of scientific name for taxon(P574)
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    Qualifier1,644,725>99.9% of uses
    Reference40<0.1% of uses
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    [createCreate a translatable help page (preferably in English) for this property to be included here]
    Scope isas qualifier(Q54828449):the property must be used by specified way only (Help)
    List of violations of this constraint:Database reports/Constraint violations/P405#Scope,hourly updated report,SPARQL
    Value type “human(Q5):This property should use items as value that contain property “instance of(P31)”.On these, the value forinstance of(P31)should be an item that usessubclass of(P279)with valuehuman(Q5)(or a subclass thereof). (Help)
    "exceptions" is incompatible with "mandatory" parameterList of violations of this constraint:Database reports/Constraint violations/P405#Value type Q5,hourly updated report,SPARQL
    Type “taxon(Q16521):item must contain property “instance of(P31)”with classes “taxon(Q16521)”or their subclasses (defined usingsubclass of(P279)). (Help)
    List of violations of this constraint:Database reports/Constraint violations/P405#Type Q16521,hourly updated report,SPARQL
    Item “taxon name(P225):Items with this property should also have “taxon name(P225)”.(Help)
    Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist.Exceptions can be specifiedusingexception to constraint(P2303).
    List of violations of this constraint:Database reports/Constraint violations/P405#Item P225,search,SPARQL
    Item “parent taxon(P171):Items with this property should also have “parent taxon(P171)”.(Help)
    Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist.Exceptions can be specifiedusingexception to constraint(P2303).
    List of violations of this constraint:Database reports/Constraint violations/P405#Item P171,search,SPARQL
    Item “taxon rank(P105):Items with this property should also have “taxon rank(P105)”.(Help)
    Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist.Exceptions can be specifiedusingexception to constraint(P2303).
    List of violations of this constraint:Database reports/Constraint violations/P405#Item P105,search,SPARQL
    Allowed entity types areWikibase item(Q29934200):the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)
    Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist.Exceptions can be specifiedusingexception to constraint(P2303).
    List of violations of this constraint:Database reports/Constraint violations/P405#Entity types

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    Taxa

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    Taxa do not have authors, it is scientific names that have author citations. Author citations may include persons who have made descriptions, but they may also exclude them (lots of the names that Linnaeus gave were not for taxa first described by him). Author citations may also include persons who did not themselves publish anything. (Taxa have taxonomists who circumscribe taxa, and a given taxon may have been circumscribed anew any number of times.) -Brya(talk)10:37, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    So, what do you want?:) --Izno(talk)16:19, 29 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Ah yes, that is the question, isn't it? Obviously, first of all, awareness that "taxon author" is a misreprestation and is misleading to the reader. Secondly, I would be much happier if this could be replaced by "author citation" (or at a pinch by "authorship", which is less accurate but shorter). -Brya(talk)05:39, 30 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    I hope what Brya wants is to replace "taxon author" with words with specific and known meaning. It is an "author citation" that goes with the validly published scientific name of a taxon; it is not the "taxon author," which I assumed, initially, was describing the person who named the taxonomic rank (Riv. ex L. or something!).
    I realize this is in its early stages, but creating odd phrases like "taxon author" to mean something else will create problems when you try to build on it.
    I just wonder why wikidata is creating new and different names and ways of doing things. I thought the idea was to make a database with use across projects and throughout cyberspace. I am not sure.
    --AfadsBad(talk)04:36, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    So I'm going to throw this at both of you:Project:Be bold(Q3916099).You know more than I.:) --Izno(talk)03:10, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Author citations

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    I gave this some further thought and I came to the conclusion that what is needed is a field for a text string (as in the field below the label "enter description" ). I do not have any idea how easy it would be to make this, from a technical perspective, but it appears to be the only way to handle this.

    Some notes:

    • Author citations may accompany scientific names. Scientific names are governed by Codes of Nomenclature. There are about half a dozen of such "Codes", all different from one another.
    • Author citations are not part of the scientific name, and as a rule do not convey any (real) information. If all author citations were deleted from all Wikipedia's this would not decrease the information in these Wikipedia's. However, author citations have been added on a large scale in all Wikipedia's and they are here to stay. As author citations have been (fairly) strongly standardized, they are very suitable for inclusion in Wikidata.
    • There may be many elements in an author citation as in the abovementioned:
    AndinobatesTwomey, Brown, Amézquita & Mejía-Vargas, 2011
    Kniphofia uvaria(L.) Oken (1841)
    and an indefinite number of further examples may be added
    Andinobates daleswansoni(Rueda-Almonacid, Rada, Sánchez-Pacheco, Velásquez-Álvarez, and Quevedo-Gil, 2006)
    BruniaceaeR.Br. ex DC. (1825)
    GentianalesJuss. ex Bercht. & J.Presl (1820)
    etc, etc
    • None of the Codes of Nomenclature require a year to be added to the author citation, although the Bacteriological Code does recommend doing so. The zoological Code and the 'botanical' Code lead by example, mostly using the formats "Hymenolepis diminuta(Rudolphi, 1819) "and"Linum radiolaL. (1753) ". In the Bacteriological Code two years may be included:"Bacillus subtilis(Ehrenberg 1835) Cohn 1872 "
    • I don't see how this can be encompassed in a data structure. Anyway, there is no such thing as a "taxon author" (taxa do not have authors) and there is no particular relationship between "the author citation" and the "author(s) of the first scientific description" (Linnaeus is the author of many names of taxa that were first scientifically described well before his time, and he gave credit where credit was due).

    -Brya(talk)05:50, 5 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    See alsohere.-Brya(talk)17:38, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    French label

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    Followingthis request for comments,the French label now includes the male and the female form.PAC2(talk)04:54, 16 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]