Wikidata:Property proposal/T&F NCAAdb athlete ID
T&F NCAAdb athlete ID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Sports
| Description | ID for an athlete in the track and field NCAAdb database on trackbot.toolforge.org/ncaadb |
|---|---|
| Represents | T&F NCAAdb (Q141150326) |
| Data type | External identifier |
| Domain | college athlete (Q111045023), athletics competitor (Q11513337) |
| Allowed values | [1-9][0-9]+ |
| Example 1 | Jesse Owens (Q52651)  10837 |
| Example 2 | Justin Gatlin (Q1652) 21864 |
| Example 3 | Veronica Campbell-Brown (Q5796) 23165 |
| Source | https://trackbot.toolforge.org/ncaadb |
| Number of IDs in source | 21,055 |
| Expected completeness | eventually complete (Q21873974) |
| Implied notability | probably Wikidata property for an identifier that does not imply notability (Q62589320), though approximately 1/4th of the 21,055 athlete IDs already have enwiki articles |
| Formatter URL | https://trackbot.toolforge.org/ncaadb/athlete/$1 |
| Applicable "stated in"-value | T&F NCAAdb (Q141150326) |
| Single-value constraint | yes |
| Distinct-values constraint | yes |
| Wikidata project | WikiProject Athletics (Q15079710), WikiProject Sports Results (Q21830819), WikiProject Sports (Q8001410) |
Motivation
[edit]External identifier for an athlete on https://trackbot.toolforge.org/ncaadb, a track and field collegiate results database maintained on WMF Toolforge that I helped create. At least 4,262 athletes in the database can be linked to existing Wikidata items, and that count is just for the ones with enwiki sitelinks.
Other databases either don't assign athlete IDs (USTFCCCA, Track and Field News) or don't maintain historical pre-2000s data (TFRRS athlete ID (P5120)). From this identifier follows the schools that each athlete was associated with. It would be helpful to have an external identifier to link athlete items with their schools and college teams with their athletes - currently there are thousands of Wikidata items for athletes and Olympians that have no linked data to their NCAA careers or schools attended. --Habst (talk) 19:08, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit]
Notified participants of WikiProject Athletics, Notified participants of WikiProject Sport results --Habst (talk) 19:14, 22 August 2026 (UTC)
Support. --Erokhin (talk) 19:18, 22 August 2026 (UTC)- @Habst, Erokhin:
Created as T&F NCAAdb athlete ID (P14843). Regards, ZI Jony (Talk) 14:00, 5 September 2026 (UTC)