Wikidata:Property proposal/PEGI game ID

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Creative work

We already have PEGI rating (P908) and I'm surprised this hasn't been proposed yet - unless I somehow missed it. Some games have multiple IDs for different platforms, and others are consolidated into one ID.

--Lewis Hulbert (talk) 12:37, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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   Support Last time I checked PEGI had no linkable IDs. I'm glad that changed. Dexxor (talk) 12:48, 19 April 2024 (UTC)  Oppose per Kirilloparma. Dexxor (talk) 11:31, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

   Support Matthias M. (talk) 18:20, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

• Unfortunately  Leaning oppose. At first I thought that PEGI had finally started using IDs instead of just a search format like it was with USK ID (P11063), but alas, after a few clicks on random numeric IDs, it turns out that PEGI is still using the same search format (i.e. search results but now in the form of numeric IDs) and these are not identifiers at all. Here are some examples:

• 9999
• 2024
• 321
• 123
• 16

As you can see a single ID can represent several separate games at once, so unfortunately these are not the IDs we are thinking of :/ Regards Kirilloparma (talk) 20:25, 19 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Well that's quite a horrible revelation. I wonder how they even came up with such a terrible system? I didn't encounter any of this with the later IDs, but the lower IDs are definitely problematic. --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 21:55, 21 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll probably withdraw this at some point but I'm going to leave this open for a bit while I figure out what I want to do. It's definitely not a good fit for an external identifier when some IDs have multiple pages of results (and the website seems to be broken so only the 1st page is visible).

I might make a Mix'n'match even if there's no property, since the data would still be useful for adding a PEGI rating (P908) to many game items. Current usage for that properly is only 5689, so scraping these "IDs" would still be beneficial. Lewis Hulbert (talk) 07:43, 22 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Withdrawn --Lewis Hulbert (talk) 10:41, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]