Template talk:Authority control

Leopoldina ID

Leopoldina member ID (new) (P10299) New url: https://www.leopoldina.org/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/detail/$1/ Template:Authority control/sandbox Grimes2 06:41, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

• Template:Remind

Grimes2 15:28, 19 February 2026 (UTC)

Please use the English-language formatter URL: https://www.leopoldina.org/en/members/member-list/detail/$1/ instead of the German-language: https://www.leopoldina.org/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/detail/$1/ Luamssuk (talk) 00:25, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

Done: The German-language URL should be used, since parts of the English-language profiles appear to be incomplete. Example: German: https://www.leopoldina.org/mitglieder/mitgliederverzeichnis/detail/wilhelm-barthlott English: https://www.leopoldina.org/en/members/member-list/detail/wilhelm-barthlott Luamssuk (talk) 00:50, 14 March 2026 (UTC)

• Template:Ping Please fix this, it doesn't work. Grimes2 07:43, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

  Template:Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:40, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei ID (P14091)

The Wikidata property is P14091. This academy has 3,178 members (records), including the past ones.

I tried to add it to Module:Authority control/config/sandbox but for some reason the pattern doesn't work; it should appear after P10299. Ilaria.bonincontro (talk) 11:27, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

• And here how it looks like:

Template:Authority control/sandbox Grimes2 15:39, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

Don't know if that's a typical link, but there is very limited information given — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 15:49, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

The site seems to be in the state of expansion. Another example:

Template:Authority control/sandboxGrimes2 16:05, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

• Support Comparable to Leopoldina, ADK, Academia Europeana. Grimes2 16:19, 4 February 2026 (UTC)
• Comment (I don't put "Support" because I have been actively involved in creating the ID and in adding it systematically to Wikidata) IMHO it contains the same amount of data as the IDs of other scientific academies, as Leopoldina, and it has a national relevance in Italy. --Epìdosis 07:35, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

DBA ID (P4992)

Could DBA ID (P4992) be added to the template? It links to the Nouveau Dictionnaire de Biographie Alsacienne for famous people connected with Alsace. The ID is simply appended to https://www.alsace-histoire.org/netdba/ to make a URL. Chuntuk (talk) 11:03, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

Template:Authority control/sandbox Grimes2 15:21, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

We have in the past rejected sub-national databases which only cover one particular region. There are 1749 uses of Template:Q — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 16:10, 17 March 2026 (UTC)

Goodreads author?

If we have Librarything for authors we might as well have Goodreads. It has a pretty alright and comprehensive catalog of authors. PARAKANYAA (talk) 01:02, 24 March 2026 (UTC)

Goodreads generates different identifiers for each language an author's work is translated into. The Goodreads Librarian Manual dictates the standard Roman version should be used as the 'primary author' across all translations. Only that specific English-language identifier provides the single, unified match required for the Authority control. However, would it be easy to model that constraint? And would editors reliably use the preferred rank to maintain it? PKalnai (talk) 07:56, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

We need to stop with the idea that "if your website adds a unique identifier to subjects, it can be included in our Wkikipedia footer". It's an unreliable, commercial site, usually not worth adding to external links even, so why would we automatically include it in thousands of articles just because it has an "authority" ID? People who really need these can use Wikidata for it, or Goodreads directly of course. First one I checked, for Tom Lanoye: the bio is a copyvio of our one it seems, just rearranging and very slightly rewriting some sentences[1]. Fram (talk) 09:20, 13 April 2026 (UTC)