Talk:Cat

Article Checklist for "Cat"

Workgroup category or categories	Biology Workgroup [Categories OK]
Article status	Developed article: complete or nearly so
Underlinked article?	No
Basic cleanup done?	Yes
Checklist last edited by	David Martin 22:52, 13 May 2007 (CDT)

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Image

If you need a temporary photo of a cat, I have this. --Versuri 07:12, 12 December 2006 (CST)

thanks, Versuri. Yes, we would like to see many more images of cats! Nancy Sculerati MD

I have begun putting in external links to some breeds in the text. These will each go to a cat fancier organization. It is important, on balance, that the links do not all go to any one of the organizations, but represent them all properly. Nancy Sculerati MD

I will see what I can find in Wiki-Commons. Please see if this is of your interest. --Versuri 13:11, 17 December 2006 (CST)

Here I have some pictures of cat but the most is with a dog. --Versuri 04:16, 18 December 2006 (CST)

photo?

Cats are often quite selective in their affections

What is the point of this photo with respect to the article? It seems to be pretty random since the section it is placed does not discuss affection. Also, it appears that the cat is NOT being affectionate here. Rather, it looks startled and ready to bolt. Chris Day (Talk) 17:04, 19 December 2006 (CST)

The final layout of the article is no where near complete. The look of the cat is the point! Can you comment/add on the text? Nancy Sculerati MD

So is it being affectionate or trying to escape? I honestly can't tell :) No, really. I'll edit the photo so the caption appears. Chris Day (Talk) 22:17, 19 December 2006 (CST)

Frankly, I think it was probably being affectionate with the girl, but objects to the photographer and would like to escape! I just came up with that caption quickly, and am open to change it. I love the picture and want to use it - somewhere in the article, anyway. There are some pictures below along the side that were uploaded for me, and I'd like to use them too.I know I would like to have a short section on development, that will use the small kittens, and the exotic shorthair is good for breeds or body type. If you are interested in cats, could you check into the biology aspect of the features? Or anything else? It would be good to work with someone! Nancy Sculerati MD

pappilae

Needs to be defined. --Larry Sanger 20:31, 8 February 2007 (CST)

Title of this article

I wonder if this should live at domestic cat? I'm wondering where the article will live that concerns lions and tigers as well as puddy tats. --Larry Sanger 21:36, 25 March 2007 (CDT)

Oh, I just noticed big cat. --Larry Sanger 10:32, 30 March 2007 (CDT)

Thanks, Larry - because we are arriving at naming conventions, though (as with so many things) we are not there yet. As per discussion on the forums, we are hoping to use scientific names, with -for example, articles like Cat, the plain word Cat or Domestic Cat the mosty obvious thing on the title. So it should live at -for now- Felis Silvestrus catus (Domestic Cat), unless you can think of something better. Can you move it for me, please? I'll check the searches to see if it comes up for various terms people would use for cat. If this works, Dog is next. Nancy Sculerati 11:10, 30 March 2007 (CDT)

Well, I think you, or someone, should craft policy proposals on which the Biology Workgroup editors can be called upon to vote, before we start implementing what we presume will be the policy. --Larry Sanger 11:54, 30 March 2007 (CDT)

OK-so we'll leave the title as is, for now. Chris Day has accepted the charge of putting together (with others) a proposal which can then be vetted by the Biology editors. It will take some time, and will be the sort of thing that will have to be updated periodically, but I think we'll get there reasonably soon. Nancy Sculerati 12:22, 30 March 2007 (CDT)

Bottom Images (Varieties of Domestic Cat)

Those pictures of different types of cats near the end of the article...is there a way to align the images so that they appear next to the paragraphs they're illustrating? India Williams 00:08, 13 April 2007 (CDT)

A couple of things to do

under the Hygiene section: No matter how well used a scratching post might be to some cats, that are individuals who are not . I have no idea what this was intended to say. Can someone who has been working on this for a while make sense of it?

In the Varieties of domestic cats section there are many pictures. As was stated above, these should be aligned in some way. I suggest either anchoring them to relevant sections or using <gallery> tags. Also, why is it that the deleted pictures have captions but the extant ones have either nothing or xxxx? Connor Lee 14:13, 19 May 2007 (CDT)

The article is unfinished. The xxx was a co-authors code for showing me where the captions could be put when he helped upload and formt these pictures. If there are captions to pictures that do not exist, these may have been left -and not yet deleted, from the Wikipedia article hat this article originally revised. If you are interested in cats, pleas feel free to add text to this article and help author. Nancy Sculerati 14:37, 19 May 2007 (CDT)