Wikidata:Property proposal/Central Index Key (CIK)

Central Index Key

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Authority control

   Done: Central Index Key (P5531) (Talk and documentation)

Description	unique ID of financial organizations listed in the SEC's EDGAR (Q3050604) (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system), list of companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Q953944)
Represents	Central Index Key (Q5061240)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	business (Q4830453) in United States of America (Q30)
Allowed values	[0-9]{10}
Example 1	Citigroup (Q219508) → 0000831001
Example 2	Walmart (Q483551) -> 0000104169
Example 3	Starbucks (Q37158) -> 0000829224
Source	external reference
Expected completeness	always incomplete (Q21873886)
Formatter URL	https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=$1

Motivation

Digital entities are unclear for financial organizations, which often have multiple names/aliases, names for each individual fund, and sometimes the structured data in regulatory documentation is incorrectly scraped and used by 3rd-party websites

Discussion

•  Comment good idea but I think the datatype should be an "external identifier" to provide a link to the CIK database 0000831001 if I understand correctly. Also the "allowed values" should be restricted to "ten digits". Cdlt, VIGNERON (talk) 20:28, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
  •  CommentThanks for the feedback - done.
    • Thank you. And with this few details fixed, I  Support VIGNERON (talk) 14:31, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

 Support Jane023 (talk) 06:18, 26 July 2018 (UTC) @Jane023, VIGNERON:  Done: Central Index Key (P5531). − Pintoch (talk) 08:58, 29 July 2018 (UTC)