Property talk:Has documentType

Rename Suggestion

I wonder whether this wouldn't be better as the more general "has type". This fits the "few terms, many uses" approach - seems like less work, and I'm also thinking of the RDF's use by semantic reasoning engines, which should probably have sort of equivalent of "has type". Robin (talk) 03:48, 28 November 2013 (GMT)

Yes, I think so too. I had just used the same name as the corresponding template variable and hadn't considered its applicability to other kinds of documents - pdfs and others un-thought of. However, having thought about "Has publication date" a bit more, I think that would be best left as is - at least for now. Reason? - "Modification Date" refers to the date of any change to any document or file on the wiki itself; whereas "Has publication date" refers to the date of original publication of the document and has no connection to wiki creation or modification dates. We will then have system (wiki) date properties "Creation date", "Modification date" and "Has publication date" for a date that is unconnected to the wiki. I'll change the "DocType" property on the same basis as I was going to change the other because it is now assigned to over 500 pages and will put 500+ jobs in the queue --Peter P (talk) 07:12, 28 November 2013 (GMT)

More thoughts: Every property has a 'type' (default type='page'). So to have property named 'type' as well is potentially confusing. It would probably have been better to have named it 'Is document type', but, since 'DocProv' does the property assignment in the vast majority of cases, and the property is a property of each document, it is probably best to leave it as it is - for now anyway. --Peter P (talk) 10:16, 28 November 2013 (GMT)