Property talk:P478
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volume of a book or music release in a collection/series or a published collection of journal issues in a serial publication
Description | Volume of a publication, like a scientific journal or one specific book of a collection/series | ||||||||||||
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Represents | volume (Q1238720) | ||||||||||||
Data type | String | ||||||||||||
Template parameter | en:Template:Cite_journal | ||||||||||||
Domain | Volume of a book in a collection/serie, volume of a scientific article, ... (note: this should be moved to the property statements) | ||||||||||||
Allowed values | According to this template:
Use string datatype in order to be able to use latin number (I, II, III,...) or complex numbering like AI, A2, 2-1,...
According to statements in the property:
When possible, data should only be stored as statements | ||||||||||||
Example | Principia Mathematica II (Q62092410) → 2 On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (Q3020388) → 322 Now That's What I Call Music (Q7065737) → 1 Belügyi Közlöny (Q117377742) → XLIV | ||||||||||||
Tracking: usage | Category:Pages using Wikidata property P478 (Q98110184) | ||||||||||||
See also | edition number (P393), issue (P433), series ordinal (P1545), number of parts of this work (P2635) | ||||||||||||
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Proposal discussion | [not applicable Proposal discussion] | ||||||||||||
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List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P478#allowed qualifiers, SPARQL
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P478#Entity types
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P478#Scope, SPARQL
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See also: Wikidata:Periodicals task force
Use this property only as a qualifier
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I thought this property should be used only as a qualifier, but I noticed a lot of items (even the property examples) use it as as a "real" property. Is it correct?--Malore (talk) 21:39, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- Where do you see that it's only meant to be used as a qualifier? It's certainly not so anywhere on the page... Circeus (talk) 12:01, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
Why should it be limited to a qualifier? It's present in every journal article item. It should also be "okay" to use it on references, e.g. an encyclopedia with 90 volumes that may not all have their own Wikidata items (think Who's Who (Q2567271) or The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography (Q7753168). Of course the Wikidata purist would demand a dedicated item for every section in a book, but most humans don't got time for that. -Animalparty (talk) 04:03, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
Spanish name
[edit]In Spanish it should be "volumen" because "tomo" means a different type (intellectual) of division. But volume as quantity (P2234) already uses it. Does someone know a fix for it? Mauricio V. Genta (talk) 03:58, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
Double numbers
[edit]Apparently it's not possible to use 7/8 as double number for a journal, at least I get a warning at Q107345800. However it's quite common for Dutch journals to have a double numbers for a volume. The notation is as it published in the said journal. Roelof Hendrickx (talk) 18:24, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
- @Roelof Hendrickx: It's a very good point.You can use 7-8, but it's not the same as 7/8, right? AmarilisMGC (talk) 16:36, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
- Correct, that's not the same. Using 7-8 means published in two separate issues. While 7/8 means it is one issue, usually with more pages that a regular issue. Roelof Hendrickx (talk) 19:44, 24 November 2021 (UTC)