Talk:List of cat breeds

message: There should be an article, not just a list, of breeds of cats (Yes, I have checked the "cats" subject too). About the most common, or the biggest, or something. I personally know too little about the subject to make an article myself :( —Mew— Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.161.12.179 (talk • contribs) 20:57, 22 November 2014‎
:@,  Here's a draft action plan to make it happen:
:#Build up the lead a little more, to at least WP:STUB level, with proper sourcing, with a particular focus on  rather than statistics (i.e. no more than 3 "breed counts", whatever the largest ones are). NB: I would recommend that this be done in British English (despite being American myself) because of the strong national tie; formalized, standardized cat breeding was established in the UK, as were the first cat shows (the primary impetus of both establishment of new breeds and interest in cat breeds), and the largest number of recognized bred cat breeds (other than new experimental ones) were established in the UK, despite the exotic-sounding names of so many of them.
:#Then move the page to Cat breed over the redirect there (using  if necessary), and adjust all the other redirects to point to it, and the current name (and Cat breed list, etc.) to point to the list section in the moved article.
:#Build up the lead enough that it started to need sections and could stand on its own as at least a B-class article.
:# Sandbox a compacted "just the facts" list, formatted as an actual embedded  (with * markup), not a table. It would include just the major breeds (defined by some criteria, probably something like:
:#* those recognized by more than one registry
:#* but not just as provisional/experimental
:#* not classified by any registries as sub-breeds – but mention notable sub-breeds inline, e.g.:
:#**
:#* not extinct
:#* not just a landrace
:#* Draft wording for the list section's intro/caption:    Footnote:  It might need to be smoothed a bit, but I crafted that carefully enough that it should be sufficient to keep out PoV-pushing of about a dozen kinds (or at least permit its removal form the short list).
:# Copy the long list presently in the article into List of cat breeds, overwriting the redirect there (noting, with a link, in the edit summary that Cat breed was the page it came from, for history/attribution reasons), and give it a concise WP:SAL stand-alone-list lead (like what we have right now), with pointers to Cat breed as the main article, then change Cat breed list, etc., to point back to List of cat breeds.
:# Merge the sandboxed concise list and caption (with pointer to the large list) into Cat breed, overwriting the original copy of the long list.
:If someone had sufficient enthusiasm, focus (i.e. nearly non-stop time), writing skills, and research material, this could be done in 1–3 days (in which case, the shuffling around wouldn't be needed – just write the new B-or-better article and concise list in a sandbox, copy it over the redirect at Cat breed, point the non-"list" redirects at that title instead of at List of cat breeds breeds, and at the list article create pointers to the new main article.  I have all of these except the non-stop time; I'm totally swamped right now.  Thus, this really could take months to years, depending on how many other editors want to work on it, and this is why I suggest the stepwise approach.  PS: All of this can happen independently of development of and between the larger, table-based, stand-alone lists. The concise one would just have key basic information.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  13:24, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Developing this into an article, not just list, on cat breeds 

message: When going through the breed pages, practically every single one of them says the breed is notably intelligent, and thus the statement has no value. Which cats are the dumb ones? If all are intelligent no one is. Clearly the pages are all written by enthusiasts.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.76.49.72 (talk) 03:12, 1 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it's nonsense promotionalism from breeders.  However, this won't be the place to address that.  Raise the issue at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cats to hopefully inspire some cleanup efforts.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  06:43, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Known for their intelligence 

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message: Without them, we Wikipedia isn’t that great  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohiorocksyeah (talk • contribs) 19:41, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we put an image on the The cat breeds without photos? 

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