Wikidata:Properties for deletion/P842
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Fossilworks taxon ID (P842): (delete | history | links | entity usage | logs | discussion)
The website has been down for a very long time and all its contents were moved to Paleobiology Database taxon ID (P10907): identifier for a fossil taxon in the Paleobiology Database. The IDs were kept the same across both databases, so a bot could theoretically just chance one for the other. —Trooper57 (talk) 17:23, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
- It does look like fossilworks is no more. It did go down for a while before (months?) and returned, but this seems terminal. The two sites ran in parallel for many years, supposedly using the same database with the fossilworks mirror updated daily (according to the fossilworks FAQS). The records were not exactly the same, with some occasional differences in the ecology and number of collections.
- For some reason the Paleobiology Database taxon ID (P10907) only has about 11,000 entries on Wikidata, whereas fossilworks has over 100k.
- The taxonbar on English Wikipedia still uses Fossilworks taxon ID (P842). When fossilworks went down we changed it to get the ID from Fossilworks taxon ID (P842) and then link it to PBDB. Obviously this workaround wouldn't be necessary if Paleobiology Database taxon ID (P10907) was fully populated. Jts1882 (talk) 13:57, 2 June 2024 (UTC)