Wikidata:Property proposal/master's thesis

master's thesis[edit]

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Person

Not done

Description	thesis written for a master's degree
Represents	master's thesis (Q1907875)
Data type	Item
Domain	human (Q5)
Example 1	Michele S. Buonanduci (Q100707471) has master's thesis Modeling Individual Lodgepole Pine Mortality from Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak in a Spatially Explicit Framework (Q104397856)
Example 2	Hannah Sipe (Q100700912) has master's thesis Multi-state Occupancy Modeling and Optimal Allocation of Survey Resources for Common Loons in Washington State (Q104396943)
Example 3	Claude Shannon (Q92760) has master's thesis A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits (Q4003572)
Example 4	Olga Zagovora (Q47516059) has master's thesis Measuring Gender Inequalities of German Professions on Wikipedia (Q28671653)
Example 5	Jitka Tesařová (Q95213411) has master's thesis The Publishing Houses and their Activities in Czechoslovakia during the Post-war Era, Focusing on the Situation after February 1948 (Q95212947)
Example 6	Alan Turing (Q7251) has master's thesis On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem (Q20895949)
Example 7	Flannery O'Connor (Q234579) has master's thesis The Geranium: A Collection of Short Stories (Q105100007)
Planned use	adding property to items for University of Washington master's degree graduates
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
See also	academic thesis (P1026)

Motivation[edit]

We are creating items for our master's and doctoral students and for their master's and doctoral theses as part of our participation in the WikiProject PCC Wikidata Pilot (Q102157715). The property academic thesis (P1026) can be added to items for doctoral graduates to point to the item for their dissertation, but there is no property that can be used to connect a person to their master's thesis. We would like to be able to make the same link for master's students and theses that we already can for doctoral students and theses. UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 01:00, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

Support Seem reasonable. BrokenSegue (talk) 03:03, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Comment In principle yes, but shouldn’t we have a more general property for thesis? There are other forms like diploma thesis (Q30749496) (roughly equivalent, but not quite the same as a master’s thesis) or habilitation thesis (Q1414362). If there is a need to differentiate, we could use the qualifier object has role (P3831) together with master's thesis (Q1907875) etc.. --Emu (talk) 12:11, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Previous discussion: Wikidata:Property_proposal/Masters_Thesis.--GZWDer (talk) 13:10, 29 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Per Emu and the previous discussion as linked by GZWDer. --Nw520 (talk) 22:23, 1 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Should use notable work (P800) with object has role (P3831) as qualifier instead. /ℇsquilo 12:31, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

When the previous version of this property proposal was not approved, nothing was done to change academic thesis (P1026) in response and to also change all the items that had used it for doctoral theses. If this proposal is rejected, is anything going to happen with academic thesis (P1026)? If not, this proposed property is needed. UWashPrincipalCataloger (talk) 01:01, 2 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree.