Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Agriculture/Livestock task force

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Thanks. — Headbomb {^ταλκ_{κοντριβς} – WP Physics} 09:21, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Breed lists

I want to revitalize a discussion I started some time ago (before the creation of this task force). Please see discussion at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Agriculture/Archive_1#Breed_lists and Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Agriculture/Archive_2#More_about_Breed_Lists for history. The idea was to move List of sheep breeds, List of goat breeds, List of cattle breeds, and the worst of all: List of domestic pig breeds ("domestic" and "breeds" are redundant here) to the corresponding Sheep breeds, etc. or possibly Breeds of sheep. I prefer the former for simplicity but I never got a lot of discussion before and I never got around to implementing it. Before I do so, I wanted to post here one more time. There is a naming convention: Wikipedia:Lists_(stand-alone_lists)#Naming_conventions but also see Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(long_lists) --Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 23:34, 7 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to disagree with that move. All of those articles meet the clearly definition of lists, which is a legitimate type of article according to our style guidelines. You don't seem to have given a compelling reason to move the articles away from a list title, especially since that is what they are at present. Personally I think that content fit for a regular, non-list based breeds of sheep article already exists in the main sheep article (which I brought to FA), and the same could be true for many others. Also, I do not see the use of the term breeds to be redundant at all, since saying so denotes that we're talking about domesticated animals. I do agree that saying domestic is redundant on the pig list, please feel free to boldly move it. Steven Walling 06:08, 9 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Animal breed disambiguation

FYI

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Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Toward a standard for disambiguating titles of articles on domestic animal breeds may be of interest to editors here. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 23:10, 16 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Mustang or mustang... should we continue to capitalize it?

There is an Rfc on mustang/Mustang capitalization going on at Talk:Mustang#Capitalization_RfC where we would be grateful for input. This project is listed on the article talk page. Thanks. Fyunck(click) (talk) 11:06, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Cattle articles titles

Cattle articles have two different styles of names and this is confusing. They are Highland cattle (no brackets) and Limousin (cattle) (notice the brackets around cattle). We need to establish consensus over which one to use.TheMagikCow (talk) 15:59, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

I believe that the title should be without brackets. When you see the breed's name in any other source, it is without brackets. Why is Wikipedia the only place to differ? TheMagikCow (talk) 15:59, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

You might want to bring this up at WT:LIVESTOCK. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 21:30, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

just looking at the examples given. Highland cattle are always called highland cattle, not just highlands. the word cattle is part of their name. Limousins are called limousins without the qualifier, so require a disambiguation in brackets. It's all well Wikipedia wanting consistency but correct usage surely must come first. IdreamofJeanie (talk) 22:14, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

@IdreamofJeanie: Take a look at the nav bar here. http://www.highlandcattlesociety.com/ The official society refers to them as the highland. TheMagikCow (talk) 13:58, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

This discussion is probably better had at WT:LIVESTOCK as Jpgordon suggests, unless you mean to test a particular policy. From the article titles policy I'll point out WP:NATURAL, which suggests that natural disambiguation is preferred over parenthetical disambiguation, therefore if (for example) Limousin is not concise enough, then Limousin cattle would be a preferred disambiguation, rather than Limousin (cattle), even if that's not the breed's proper name. However, per WP:PRECISE from the same policy, if there is a common convention or local consensus that cattle breed articles should be consistently named one way or the other, then that can override the policy. So, yes, this should be discussed at WT:LIVESTOCK. Ivanvector (talk) 20:05, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Limousin cattle are actually called limousin cattle. They can be called limousins after being called limousin cattle. It is usually for convenience and being shorter to type/speak. TheMagikCow (talk) 06:09, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Yep. Anyone who raises Highlands calls them that, when the context makes it clear they mean cattle, not land that's high. And ten seconds on Google disproves the idea that Limousins are not called Limousin cattle.[1] I think IdreamofJeanie is confusing general use (which varies, regardless of breed, depending on context) with the rare cases where the species name is an intrinsic and formal part of the official breed name on the breed standards. That almost exclusively happens when the name without the species is laughably ambiguous, e.g. American Quarter Horse (without "Horse", it means a coin), and Norwegian Forest Cat (without "Cat", it means a Scandinavian woodland). In those cases, the species name is capitalized as part of the breed name. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 02:56, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Seems that we have consensu here to move the pages. I will get on with that! Thanks User:SMcCandlish for the input! TheMagikCow (talk) 09:55, 4 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Without brackets

User:TheMagikCow
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This is a matter of policy at WP:NATURAL; we don't use parenthetic (bracketed) disambiguation when natural English phrasing will work. And it pretty much always does for breeds (of all kinds; there's nothing special about cattle in this regard). It's a simple fact of the English language that even cattle experts will say "Limousin cattle" (and not mean to "officially" rename the breed as "Limousin Cattle" with a capital C) in any context in which it isn't clear that cattle are the topic. Wikipedia is, by its nature as a general encyclopedia for everyone, rather than a cattle encyclopedia for cattle experts, pretty much always such a non-specific context, except within a single article in which the reader already knows the micro-context is cattle specifically. So, it's fine to refer inside the Limousin cattle article to them in short form ("Limousin characteristics are ..."), but the article title should of course be Limousin cattle, and the lead should begin with that. If the formal name of the breed were Limousin Cattle, then it would appear that way, with a capital C, in both lead and title. We had pretty much an entire year of WP:RMs confirming all of this already, across domestic species, from horses to geese. There are just some stragglers left like "Limousin (cattle)" because I or someone else hasn't gotten around to RMing them yet. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 02:56, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
User:Ivanvector - based on SMcCandlish's excellent points. Natural disambiguation is preferred to parenthetical. I can see an exception being made on the possibility that some group or organization decides to name itself after a breed of cattle and then gets really famous, such as next year's breakout hit by alt-country-big band-funk rockers the Holstein Cattle (band). I'm hard-pressed to think of an existing example. Ivanvector (talk) 19:50, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

With brackets

Either method is acceptable

~~User:Ivanvector~~ see above. Ivanvector (talk) 19:51, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Looking at Category:Cattle breeds many in fact don't have "cattle" anywhere, and most that do use "Foo cattle". I can't see much of a problem here. Johnbod (talk) 13:27, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- No one is suggesting addition of "cattle" to names that don't need it. The question is whether to impose parenthetic disambiguation where disambiguation is necessary, as some kind of WP:IAR against WP:NATURAL policy. No one's provided any rationale for doing so. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 02:56, 28 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Merge discussion notice

FYI

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Please see Talk:New Zealand rabbit#Proposed merges (proposal to merge two color-variant articles masquerading as "breed" articles back into the actual breed article). — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ≼ 06:00, 27 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Bull Riding Hall of Fame notability consensus requested

I added the Bull Riding Hall of Fame with this edit summary: Adding Bull Riding Hall of Fame created in 2012. Inducts already notable bull riders, bull fighters, bulls, and legends from PRCA, PBR, and other circuits, many from ProRodeo Hall of Fame. Ravenswing undid my entry citing: (Undid revision 764060585 by Dawnleelynn Is there any consensus indicating that all such members of this hall of fame are considered presumptively notable?) I replied with several third-party websites that show the notability of individuals who have been inducted into this hall of fame.

Another editor replied: There does not appear to be a WikiProject on bullriding, but there should be a project that incorporates this that I recommend you notifying of this discussion so they can chime in. I doubt many people who watch this page are familiar enough with the topic to voice an opinion. So I am notifying Agriculture and Agriculture/Livetock as bull riding falls under this umbrella wikiproject. Would appreciate some support.

Go to this page and section: http://en.wiki.x.io/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Notability_(sports)#Rodeo_-_Bull_Riding_Hall_of_Fame_notability_in_question

dawnleelynn^(talk) 03:55, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Concur. Montanabw^(talk) 00:39, 8 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Domestic animal breed page names

I have started a discussion about page naming conventions for domestic animal breeds at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Dogs#Domestic animal breed page names and invite other contributors to join. Cavalryman V31 (talk) 06:43, 2 December 2017 (UTC).[reply]

Categorizing

Elsewhere, Justlettersandnumbers wrote I've seen no discussion at WT:LIVESTOCK of whether we should have Category:Indicine cattle, Category:Zebuine cattle, Category:Sanga cattle etc, but it's an interesting idea – the rub is in the actual categorisation, where often there's no clear scientific consensus.

I agree, other than it'd be Category:Taurine cattle, Category:Indicine cattle, and Category:Sanga cattle (indicine and zebu[ine] are synonymous, and indicine is more frequently used than zebuine). I think the lack of this sub-categorization is a minor encyclopedia-writing "failure to be comprehensive". We can work around the fact of disputed scientific consensus on the ancestry of various breeds by simply not categorizing the disputed ones, or having a category for breeds of disputed ancestry.

If we did this, we'd also have a basis on which to re-create Category:Cattle hybrids (recently upmerged into Category:Cattle crossbreeds for all-domestic, and Category:Bovid hybrids for domestic–wild). It would be specifically for hybrids between tauring and indicine, taurine and sange, indicine and sanga, or all three. As for lack of scientific consensus that all three of these really are subspecies, I don't see that it's a concern unless and until there should be a scientific consensus that one (or all) of them are not separate subspecies, in which case we just have a simple category merge (or remove all three subcats of Category:Cattle breeds if all three are determined to be the same subspecies, or rather that there are no subspecies of Bos taurus. For now, it's good enough that various RS do classify them as subspecies. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ >^ʌⱷ҅_ᴥⱷ^ʌ< 13:54, 2 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Missing breed article?

Australian White rabbit is a disambiguation page, mentioning a breed. There's not a lot of info I'm finding about it yet, though there are a few livestock-related hits in a Google search that trims out Wikipedia, beer, and Jefferson Airplane [2] (though there are a lot of false positives for the adjective "Australian" in front of "White Rabbit [Something]" names, e.g. a gallery and a beer brand). I'm wondering if this is another name of the New Zealand White rabbit a.k.a. New Zealand rabbit, or a distinct breed. Australian rabbit is a redirect to Rabbits in Australia, primarily about them as an invasive species. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 12:26, 2 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Writing about breeds

After two new-ish editors ended up at WP:ANI in the same week for breeds-related disruptive editing (and one topic-ban was issued), I've expanded a bullet-point list of advice for them into an essay: Wikipedia:Writing about breeds.

It provides a crash course in how to write about breeds the Wikipedia way. It's mostly for new editors, but might be of use to some more experienced ones who have not written about breeds before or thought much about how our WP:P&G apply to the topic area. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 07:52, 1 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Capitalization of names of standardized breeds

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Please see Wikipedia:Village pump (policy)#RfC on capitalization of the names of standardized breeds.

This is a neutral RfC on a question left unanswered by MOS:LIFE (on purpose in 2012–2014, pending "later discussion"). It is now later, and lack of resolution of the question has held up MOS:ORGANISMS in draft proposal state for 6 years. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 22:03, 9 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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