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followed by
immediately following item in a series of which the subject is a part, preferably use as qualifier of P179 [if the subject has been replaced, e.g. political offices, use "replaced by" (P1366)]
DescriptionItem that comes after the current one, in a sequence, e.g. for series/sequels of books or films. Can be used as qualifier on a statement describing a series. Use in combination with follows (P155). See also replaces (P1365) and replaced by (P1366).
Representsfollowed by (Q24575113)
Data typeItem
Template parameteren:template:Infobox Book (followed_by)
Domaingeneric (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Allowed valuesitem of the same nature (note: this should be moved to the property statements)
Example When possible, data should only be stored as statements
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Tracking: sameno label (Q42533273)
Tracking: usageCategory:Pages using Wikidata property P156 (Q23908993)
See alsoreplaced by (P1366), next higher rank (P3730), gave up territory to (P7904)
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    Current uses
    Total2,471,992
    Main statement1,465,31459.3% of uses
    Qualifier1,006,60140.7% of uses
    Reference77<0.1% of uses
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    [create Create a translatable help page (preferably in English) for this property to be included here]
    Conflicts with “instance of (P31): human (Q5), Wikimedia disambiguation page (Q4167410), Wikimedia project page (Q14204246): this property must not be used with the listed properties and values. (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/P156#Conflicts with P31, SPARQL
    None of Wikipedia:Future events (Q16739860): value must not be any of the specified items.
    Replacement property:
    Replacement values: (Help)
    List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P156#none of, hourly updated report, SPARQL
    None of N/A (Q929804), last (Q30013662): value must not be any of the specified items.
    Replacement property:
    Replacement values: (Help)
    List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P156#none of, hourly updated report, SPARQL
    Inverse property of “follows (P155):
    if [item A] has this property (followed by (P156)) linked to [item B],
    then [item B] should also have property “follows (P155)” linked to [item A]. (Help)
    Exceptions are possible as rare values may exist. Exceptions can be specified using exception to constraint (P2303). Known exceptions: shebang (Q1411020)
    List of violations of this constraint: Database reports/Constraint violations/P156#inverse, SPARQL
    Allowed entity types are Wikibase item (Q29934200), Wikibase lexeme (Q51885771): 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/P156#Entity types
    Scope is as main value (Q54828448), as qualifier (Q54828449): 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/P156#Scope, SPARQL
    Value "first" not allowed
    If item is first in a series, value type should be "no value", rather than a value of first (Q19269277), which is ambiguous (Help)
    Violations query: SELECT ?item ?itemLabel WHERE {?item ?prop [pq:P156 wd:Q19269277].}
    List of this constraint violations: Database reports/Complex constraint violations/P156#Value "first" not allowed
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    Please notify projects that use this property before big changes (renaming, deletion, merge with another property, etc.)

    Original creation discussion

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    Film

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    "Preceded by" (P155) and "Followed by" (P156)

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    --Nizil Shah (talk) 12:20, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Not convinced: better add the number of the serie and the name of the serie. Snipre (talk) 18:31, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Its not only for numbering series but to make series navigate easily and to make people know of series as in above example.--Nizil Shah (talk) 20:14, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    I like it, it would be much simpler to find prequel and sequel with a direct link. A number in the series might also be good. SilkyShark (talk) 07:52, 8 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Bear in mind that series order is not always simple - LibraryThing implemented a similar system, and had major disputes over the "right order" for some series ("this is the seventh book, but it's set before all the others"; "yes, but you should read book five first", etc). Andrew Gray (talk) 12:26, 11 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Numbering also presupposed a Hollywood style "Name of Movie II" titling. I work more on the documentary side at En Wiki and there are series of films in which no so such titling is used. So I would support the preceded by and followed by proposal. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 19:54, 21 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
     Support Per my comment above. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 06:02, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
     Support Needs to be clear exactly what is meant (I'm assuming publication date order). Danrok (talk) 14:47, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Where there is a dispute as to what follows what then this property can appear twice with suitable Qualifiers. Filceolaire (talk) 23:26, 24 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Someone added "precedido por" (Property:P155), but the property has not been used yet. --Kolja21 (talk) 01:35, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    There is also Property:P156: "seguido por". I'm not sure if these properties are meant for works or for persons. --Kolja21 (talk) 02:10, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    These properties are for work and not for people, help simplify the search for successors and predecessors of movies, TV series and books Lucasdj98talk 13:51, 26 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    There is a discussion ongoing about this property here - Sarilho1 (talk) 14:33, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Archived to WD:Project chat/Archive/2013/04#Properties preceded by and followed by. --Yair rand (talk) 15:59, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Successor states

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    Moved from Property talk:P155. --Yair rand (talk) 16:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    I wanted to note that I've been using this and followed by for successor states. It seems to be a good fit (of course you often need to use more than one entry when a state breaks up), but if people disagree, I can request a new property. Superm401 - Talk 23:37, 6 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    I think that using a separate property would be preferable. Using just "preceded by" and "followed by" is too ambiguous, in my opinion. --Yair rand (talk) 15:56, 25 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    To avoid ambiguity these should be used as qualifiers to statements. For states there is is usually one state per wikidata page so there is less ambiguity and these can be used as main properties. Filceolaire (talk) 02:55, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Drop the constraint to creative work

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    Moved from Property talk:P155. --Yair rand (talk) 16:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Just collecting the previous discussions on this.

    I have the feeling that this is used successfully not only for creative work, and I am unsure why it should be constrained to creative works only. Successor states, people following in an office, etc. seem very reasonable as well. As you can see from the previous discussions, it was meant by several editors intuitively to be used wider than just creative works. Furthermore, there are indeed many pages in the Wikipedias that could use this kind of data, think about the navboxes, or about the Infoboxes (e.g. the ones used for popes which list successor and predecessor). And don't tell me it's too complicated for something else than creative works -- if we can figure out whether Clone Wars or Attack of the Clones precedes Revenge of the Sith, and whether the latter is succeeded by A New Hope or by Star Wars VII, we can also figure out that Benedict XVI is the successor John Paul I. --Denny (talk) 21:57, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    but benedict xvi is also the successor of Bernardin Gantin, Sebastiano Baggio, Franjo Šeper and Julius Döpfner. persons do different things, and can be in a list of persons for everything they did. it should be possible to use this property as qualifier/together with qualifiers, but to say that benedict xvi is the successor of john paul i, without mentioning "pope" is just not correct. (in general i'm pro opening this prop for uses beside creative works)--Akkakk 22:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    +1. Successor and predecessor should be derived from the list of elements. Better define successor and predecessor from a query used to define the list and then looking for the rank of the main item.
    Successor and predecessor are not a characteristic of an item but of a serie or a position so better avoid mixing data. Snipre (talk) 22:49, 8 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Successor and predecessor are not a characteristic of an item but of a position so they should be used as qualifier to a statement describing a position (job, political office etc.) Filceolaire (talk) 02:48, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Agree that it should not be restricted to creative work, and that it should be used as a qualifier when possible (in part of the series (P179) for most creative works). But there are cases where using it as a main property seems the most natural option, like for the "successor state" mentionned above. --Zolo (talk) 06:11, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    I am not disagreeing that B XVI is also the successor of all these people -- but if you look at the actual Wikipedia infobox on him, you will find the simple line "predecessor" and "successor". It seems that it is quite obvious in those case. Also, I actually do not want to debate the merit of using it in this particular case, but rather in simply dropping the constraint to creative work. I don't think creative work are any easier than the rest of the world, and thus I don't see the advantage of constraining it. In the case of B16, one could add the office as a qualifier of the successor statement, if disambiguation is required (this is something especially useful for politicians).

    Also, regarding the query - the query is not only computationally heavy, but also not as useful as an explicitly stated successor statement. Between two popes there can be a considerable amount of time (up to years). With the successor statement you know that there is no other person between the two office holders. If you just make a query and display the results, you never have this information explicit. Otherwise you will never know the information is complete. --Denny (talk) 13:00, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Have been using this for the geologic time scale (e.g. Carboniferous (Q133738) as a main property. I find the new restriction a little odd to. Do I need to use a qualifier to say that the series is the geologic time scale? --Tobias1984 (talk) 14:09, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Although it seems obvious, I would recommend to use follows (P155) and followed by (P156) as qualifiers even for items like this. Let's have a look on Permian (Q76402): We can state the order as a qualifier to instance of (P31) > period (Q392928) and in this case we can add follows (P155) > Carboniferous (Q133738) and followed by (P156) > Triassic (Q47158). But we can also state the order as a qualifier to part of (P361) > Paleozoic (Q75507) (not subclass of (P279) as it is misdefined now), and in this case we only can add follows (P155), since Permian (Q76402) is the last period of Paleozoic (Q75507). In the case of geological we can actually have both type of sequences defined on Wikidata and let the users (Wikipedias) decide, which one is more useful for them.--Shlomo (talk) 21:41, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Sounds like a good pattern. --Denny (talk) 17:39, 12 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]
    Yes actually it is probably better if we can always make things explicit. Can I add "should usually be used as a qualifier in the description" ? --Zolo (talk) 14:03, 4 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    I'm agree for creative works to use P155 and P156 as qualifiers, because could be more than one list, but in other cases I would let these properties as "main property", for Tobias1984 and other types of lists i.e. asteroids, chemical elements... --Paperoastro (talk) 15:29, 9 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

     Support The 'creative work' constraint is indicative of a larger problem the Wikidata community has in wanting to unnecessarily restrict the domain of broadly-applicable properties. I support dropping the 'creative work' constraint. Emw (talk) 05:32, 10 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Based on the discussion, I am making the change. --Denny (talk) 19:33, 11 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    Directing to use as a qualifier?

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    Shouldn't we be specific about the use of this property? The preceded by/succeeded by combination only really work as a qualifier to the particular instance. For example, album B was preceded by album A, and succeeded by album C.  — billinghurst sDrewth 00:01, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    @billinghurst:. Each album has it's own item so this is a property of that item, not a qualifier.
    Politicians typically have a number of different offices over the years and we do not have a separate item for each incumbancy. In those cases the preceded by, suceded by properties are qualifiers to the 'office held' property, listing other politicians who have held that office, along with start date/end date properties so we can track what order the subject of that item held his various offices.
    OK? Filceolaire (talk) 19:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree that this should only be used as a qualifier, but there are currently almost a quarter million uses as a straight property, and only about eight thousand uses as a qualifier. --Yair rand (talk) 06:26, 1 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    consistency gadget

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    I added this property to my User:JonnyJD/consistency_check.js (symmetry/inverse). --JonnyJD (talk) 00:07, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

    new property replaces (P1365)

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    Moved from Property talk:P155. --Yair rand (talk) 16:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Property replaces (P1365) has now been created for those cases where an item is replaced by a previous item so I have changed the label for P155 from "preceded by' to 'followed' to reduce confusion with P1365 and I have rewritten the description.

    follows (P155) should be used where new items don't replace old items. e.g.

    • books
    • tv programs
    • albums from a band

    replaces (P1365) should be used where the previous item is replaced e.g.

    • political offices
    • hereditary titles
    • states and administrative entities

    Similarly for followed by (P156) and replaced by (P1366) . Filceolaire (talk) 14:07, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

    For asteroids, we can continue to use P155/P156? --Paperoastro (talk) 19:45, 22 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]


    Use only as a qualifier or other use too?

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    Moved from Property talk:P155. --Yair rand (talk) 16:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    Are there any needs to use it not as a qualifier? The Example item and value The Two Towers (Q332388) part of the series (P179) => The Lord of the Rings (Q15228)The Two Towers (Q332388) follows (P155) => The Fellowship of the Ring (Q208002) may be useful, but now it was changed to the more specific The Two Towers (Q332388) published in (P1433) => The Lord of the Rings (Q15228) qualifier follows (P155) => The Fellowship of the Ring (Q208002). --Diwas (talk) 01:04, 20 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

    @Diwas: I heartily agree that this should only be used as a qualifier. I just added a constraint to this and followed by (P156) that they should not be used on people (because that makes no goddamn sense whatsoever and is utterly worthless), and fail to see any cases where this should be used as a property proper and not just as a qualifier. So I would really like to make it a qualifier-only property. Jon Harald Søby (talk) 14:21, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    I totally agree. Using P155 (and 156) as a property proper is extremely unclear and vague for people, but i think that for creative works as well.--Jklamo (talk) 15:03, 7 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    Mostly (and understandably) these properties are used for different types of sovereigns. They clearly lay in sequence. And this information is used in infoboxes. So, at least, before deleting this info should be kept in some form. --Infovarius (talk) 21:15, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    The most logical approach should be changing the infoboxes to try to take it first as a qualifier and then as a property itself and adding the constraint to check that it only is used as a qualifier, because even in the cases where the object itself is part of a sequence of items it should be specified of which sequence that item takes part. Not using this property as a qualifier can generate confusion when the item takes part in more than one sequence (as for example, the politicians which had more than one position). -- Agabi10 (talk) 09:01, 26 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    I agree to this. On a tv series each episode is followed by the next. But is the final episode in season 1 followed by the first episode of season two? For the whole series this is true, but for the season it's not. If Wikidata should be machine readable this distinction is important. For a human it's easy to see what is intended but not for a machine. This distinction also could be important in infoboxes to make it clear how the next episode follows this. --Pajn (talk) 08:59, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    I think that the main problem with this "migration" is that we can not completely do it with bots. Bots can change from the statement to the qualifier of the serie, but if more than one serie is defined we can't do the same way. Anyway it can make inconsistencies like the one mentioned of moving the first episode of the second season to the serie "First Season of...." to the last episode. -- Agabi10 (talk) 15:16, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    Can't we add a restriction to not create new statements with it and then clean up the old ones over time? --Pajn (talk) 09:12, 21 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    Seems reasonable. I've added a constraint to the property so that it should only be used as a qualifier. --Yair rand (talk) 23:19, 30 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
    I too concur that P155/P156 are best as qualifiers as they each have a relative context. A book can be written by an author, published by a publisher, illustrated by an author; be part of a series; all of these are a context which can be qualified.  — billinghurst sDrewth 05:50, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Drop constraint to single value for (at least) musical works

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    Moved from Property talk:P155. --Yair rand (talk) 16:44, 24 February 2016 (UTC)[reply]

    See Huominen on huomenna (Q15896835): it has two values for both follows (P155) and followed by (P156) as there are two values for performer (P175), as it is done regularly on Wikipedia. So I think that the constraint to single value should be dropped for (at least) musical works. What do you think? --★ → Airon 90 10:38, 26 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]

     Support multiple orders are quite possible, we should allow them with additional qualifiers. d1g (talk) 09:06, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
     Support since both a television series episode (Q21191270) and the two-part episode (Q21664088) episode could have its own entity the following episode must have two preceding episodes. Also an episode could follow another one according to production or broadcasting order. --Shisma (talk) 15:35, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    You don't need to drop the constraint to define exceptions. Besides, in this case, I think we could define a separator (P4155).
    --- Jura 15:51, 24 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't have any opinion about song items, I don't remember ever editing one. These properties are used in various situations, and not all of them will be simple linear chains. Ghouston (talk) 01:39, 27 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Current statistics

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    • Use in statements: on 329713 items, 335013 statements
    • Use as qualifier: on 54303 items(?), 54411 statements

    Top classes/instances in statements:

    • wd:Q482994 album 60562 instance of
    • wd:Q134556 single 40214 instance of
    • wd:Q3863 asteroid 39316 instance of
    • wd:Q19389637 biographical article 25833 instance of
    • wd:Q17329259 encyclopedic article 20763 instance of

    as of today.
    --- Jura 12:48, 11 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

    Followed by two events

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    X-posted at Talk:Paleozoic (Q75507). If the Paleozoic (Q75507) cannot be followed by (P156) both Mesozoic (Q83222) and Permian-Triassic extinction event (Q141118), then what is the relation (if any) to both or either of these items? Thanks. - Trilotat (talk) 17:45, 29 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Perhaps end cause (P1534) should point to Permian-Triassic extinction event (Q141118)? --Yair rand (talk) 00:18, 22 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

    Constraint

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    Hi there, may I suggest discussing here MovieFex and Mahir256 about the property constraint (P2302)? Bouzinac💬✒️💛 21:06, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    @Bouzinac: Sure. A warning implies that there is a better solution and you can correct it. But this isn't given in many cases. So a constraint is created without possibility to fix a violation. -- MovieFex (talk) 21:43, 23 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Reinserting the constraint, and a path towards this

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    I was asked to provide some suggestions for migrating statement uses of P155/P156 to qualifiers. Below are some of these, ordered in decreasing order of the number of items with certain (groups of) P31s. Most of these follow similar threads, and can be expanded to include other sequences using the same properties as those noted in the suggestions. (Note that the use counts are for follows (P155) only, on the assumption that a similar quantity of uses of followed by (P156) are also present.)

    Let me know if I should elaborate on any of these a bit more than is done here, or whether I should explicitly consider other cases not otherwise covered under the umbrellas above; I believe the majority of uses (~798k/~1015k) of P155/P156 have been addressed in the preceding bullet points. Mahir256 (talk) 21:32, 4 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

    Note that there are also having P155/P156 usages (perhaps more than 300k?) on transport infrastructures (interchanges, junctions, service/parking areas, bus stops, etc.), IIRC mainly in Japan, UK and Tailand, wondering if who should be informed by this section. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 23:04, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    @Liuxinyu970226: You're off by two orders of magnitude. Mahir256 (talk) 04:51, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    @Mahir256: Oppose off, as I also used to edit the affected items and use both, I agree that the current diplomatic relations between China and India are fairly bad, but I can't believe that how and why can this be a reason I must "off" from a thread opened by an Indian user. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:58, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    @Liuxinyu970226: sigh I had meant to say that rather than there being ~300k uses of P155/P156 on transportation infrastructure, a query returned only ~3k uses of that property. My apologies for not recognizing your level of comprehension of English. Plus I'm not Indian, as my enwiki user page should indicate. Mahir256 (talk) 05:06, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Based on this example, I would try @フォット, DavidMar86hdf, B.O.B. jp, Tomtom3309, AT:@本日ほんじつ晴天せいてん: ^^ --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 04:31, 9 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]
    Also there are nearly 10k usages that are affecting softwares and/or licenses, e.g. MediaWiki 1.31 (Q44808744)follows (P155)MediaWiki 1.30 (Q29887153), MediaWiki 1.31 (Q44808744)followed by (P156)MediaWiki 1.32 (Q53410631)... WikiProject Informatics has more than 50 participants and couldn't be pinged. Please post on the WikiProject's talk page instead. --Liuxinyu970226 (talk) 23:09, 5 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

     Comment@Mahir256: I have seen someone come along and add follows/followed by to biographical article items for the work Thom's Irish Who's Who (Q67202875), example at Abraham, Lieut.-Col. James Johnston (Q67202946). I am guessing that they should be qualifiers for published in (P1433). Would need to confirm that and provide an example somewhere. I not even certain how desired that is, though whatever rocks someones boat.  — billinghurst sDrewth 22:12, 20 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]