Wikidata:Property proposal/protected region scheme

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protected region scheme

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Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Place

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Motivation

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Currently we have heritage designation (P1435) for various heritage designations. We currently lack a property to express the same as heritage designation (P1435) for nature or environment protection schemes. Thus this proposal. Similar to heritage designation (P1435), using instance of (P31) for the scheme is generally not a good way to express this: such schemes tend to change over time. (Add your motivation for this property here.) --- Jura 16:28, 13 August 2019 (UTC) (rewritten)[reply]

Discussion

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  •  Comment Having designation or protection scheme value separate from P31 value would make sense if you didn't narrow designation down to kind of area/region. There are also protected natural objects that exist regardless of their designation and that are not necessarily defined as areas, e.g. König-Ludwig-Eiche (Q16459) or Ehalkivi (Q1299227). For these designation rather isn't a defining characteristic to be used as P31 value. Hence it would be good to use separate designation property for sake of consistency for all conservation designations (including area designations used for objects that essentially are what they are designated to be). For protected areas P31 value can be e.g. generic "protected area" class, similar to human (Q5) as P31 value (while its subclasses like occupations, gender etc. are given as values for separate properties).
It's also worth pointing out that heritage designation (P1435) is already used for protected natural objects in several countries (as description/constrains for that property suggest, too). Benefit of having new property for natural heritage designations might be that some languages would probably do better if it was possible to use different property labels for cultural heritage designation and natural heritage designation. 2001:7D0:81F7:B580:55FC:7327:567E:83C1 12:07, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]