| Jarekt added a comment. |
I was looking for a datatype which has many properties of sitelinks and Commons media file datatype, like including tracking of deletions and renames, automatic and robust link display and with some internal conversion to a common format (underscores changed into spaces, etc.). "External identifier" type is not a good match for storing links to Wikipages, because it only does automatic link display. Sitelinks are not good options either because you can only have one sitelink per project. That is why I was thinking about a new datatype or extension of Commons media file datatype.
I aWould be a big fan of allowing sitelinks from a single item to multiple pages on a single project, each page in a different namespace. That would also solve a mess with items which are instances of Wikimedia permanent duplicated pages , where one would like to link to multiple pages written in different scripts of the same language that reside on a single project (T165882). That would also partially solve an issue T99899, by allowing a commons page to look-up wikidata item that link to it. So preferred solution would be to relax one-project-one-sitelink restriction, and if that is not possible than creation of new statement datatype that share many properties of sitelinks.
The final side-point is about propagation of page deletions to the currently existing Commons media file datatype. I do not know how it works but if an image is deleted on Commons than it is removed from image (P18) statements, see this example, I would lave to have the same functionality for other properties linking to wikipages.
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