Property talk:P6184

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reference has role
role, or specific nature, of the given reference

Represents	role (Q4897819)
Data type	Item
Example	Triticum (Q12106) → first valid description (Q1361864) Fragaria (Q745) → first valid description (Q1361864)
See also	type of reference (P3865), object of statement has role (P3831), subject has role (P2868)
Lists	Items with the most statements of this property Count of items by number of statements (chart) Items with the most statements Items with the fewest statements Count of items by number of sitelinks (chart) Items with the most sitelinks Items with the most sitelinks, but no link to one Wikipedia (sample: Welsh Wikipedia, cywiki) Items with the fewest sitelinks Most linked wikis Items with the most identifier properties By value of property Most statements Fewest statements Most sitelinks Most linked wikis Total of sitelinks on items Most identifiers Fewest identifiers Items with no other statements Most recently created items Items with novalue claims Items with unknown value claims Usage history (total) Usage history (main statement) Chart by item creation date Database reports/Constraint violations/P6184 Map Random list
Proposal discussion	Proposal discussion
Current uses	Total 84,992 Main statement 1 <0.1% of uses Qualifier 10 <0.1% of uses Reference 84,981 >99.9% of uses
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Scope is as reference (Q54828450): the property must be used by specified way only (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P6184#Scope, SPARQL

Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200), Wikibase lexeme (Q51885771), Wikibase sense (Q54285715), Wikibase MediaInfo (Q59712033), Wikibase property (Q29934218): the property may only be used on a certain entity type (Help)

Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303).
List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P6184#Entity types

Can be used to indicate primary source of statement?

@Deryck Chan, Tom.Reding, ChristianKl, Brya, Succu, Jheald:

This property can indicate that the reference is the primary source of a statement or it's better to use type of reference (P3865)?--Malore (talk) 15:14, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

@Succu, Jheald: Am I right to think that this type of reference (P3865) is like distribution format (P437) but to be used to qualify a reference, whereas this new property tells us what the reference does to the statement or item? If that understanding is correct, "primary source" would be this new property. Deryck Chan (talk) 15:22, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

I don't consider type of reference (P3865) to be suitable to state that something is a primary source. This property however is. ChristianKl ❪✉❫ 18:06, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

primary source (Q112754) has a well defined context, so it is a perfect usage of this property. --Succu (talk) 21:12, 29 November 2018 (UTC)