Wikidata:Property proposal/Minerals.net mineral ID
Minerals.net mineral and gemstone ID
[edit]Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science
Motivation
[edit] Notified participants of WikiProject Mineralogy
The Minerals.net (Q121890280) website is a free informational and educational guide to rocks, minerals, gemstones, and jewelry. "This site has been providing detailed information and photos of hundreds of mineral and gemstone since 1997 and is one of the leading education resources on minerals and gemstones." Information for minerals includes a description of each mineral, chemical formula, composition, color, streak, hardness, crystal system, crystal forms, transparency, specific gravity, luster, cleavage, classification, rock type, environment found in, uses, noteworthy locations, common mineral associations, comparisons with other similar minerals, photographs, and links to other online resources. Information for gemstones includes a description of each gemstone, chemical formula, color, hardness, crystal system, refractive index, specific gravity, transparency, luster, cleavage, and mineral class, uses, varieties, sources, similar gemstones, and photographs. AdamSeattle (talk) 18:58, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
Discussion
[edit] Support I support. Seems a useful source of information! Riesengrey (talk) 19:17, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Support I agree with @Riesengrey. metadataguy (talk) 22:03, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Weak support the page in the current state is active for around 10 years with a long period of inactivity. Like many other websites about minerals, this is also a private project, but much smaller than e.g. Mindat. As I stated in Wikidata:Property proposal/Minerals.net gemstone ID I don't think that this requires creation of two properties, one would be perfectly fine, because we don't have any identifiers here, just fragments of URLs. What's more, I don't think that such page is a good source for any physical properties of minerals in Wikidata, proper scientific sources should be used for this. Wostr (talk) 22:49, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
Weak support Very good points, particularly about the physical properties. We already have a huge wrong data propagation, and adding a proprietary database that may disappear as source only makes that worse. In that respect, an Internet Archive of that website would help. Egon Willighagen (talk) 07:29, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
Support I think Wostr is on to something about combining this with the other minerals.net proposal. --Crystal Yragui, University of Washington Libraries (talk) 14:57, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Support Emwille (talk) 14:41, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
Comment I have modified the formatter URL to accommodate both minerals and gemstones into one property. AdamSeattle (talk) 22:22, 30 September 2023 (UTC)