Infobox cat breed | |
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Domestic cat (Felis catus) |
![]() | This template uses Lua: |
![]() | Please link to actual breed standard documents (usually PDF), not "breed profiles" (introductory material about breeds that most sites provide). |
{{{name}}} | |
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[[File:{{{image}}}|frameless|upright=1]] {{{imagecaption}}} | |
[[File:{{{image2}}}|frameless|upright=1]] {{{imagecaption2}}} | |
Other names | {{{altname}}} |
Common nicknames | {{{nickname}}} |
Origin | {{{origin}}} |
Foundation bloodstock | {{{stock}}} |
Variety status | Extinct. Not recognised as a standardised breed by any major breed registry. |
Breed standards | |
CFA | [{{{cfastd}}} standard] |
FIFe | standards: [{{{fifestd1}}} {{{fifeterm1}}}], [{{{fifestd2}}} {{{fifeterm2}}}] |
IPCBA | [{{{ipcbastd}}} standard] |
TICA | [{{{ticastd}}} standard] |
WCF | [{{{wcfstd}}} standard] |
FFE | [{{{ffestd}}} standard] |
ACF | [{{{acfstd}}} standard] |
ACFA/CAA | standards: [{{{acfastd1}}} {{{acfaterm1}}}], [{{{acfastd2}}} {{{acfaterm2}}}] |
CCA-AFC | [{{{ccastd}}} standard] |
CCC of A | [{{{cccastd}}} standard] |
CFF | [{{{cffstd}}} standard] |
GCCF | [{{{gccfstd}}} standard] |
LOOF | [{{{loofstd}}} standard] |
NZCF | [{{{nzcfstd}}} standard] |
SACC | [{{{saccstd}}} standard] |
Other | {{{otherstd}}} |
Notes | |
{{{note}}} | |
Feline hybrid (Felis catus × {{{x}}}) |
Typical use:
{{Infobox cat breed
|name=
|image=
|imagecaption=
|image2=
|imagecaption2=
|altname=
|origin=
|nickname=
|stock=
|extinct=
|notrecognized= <!-- or |notrecognised= -->
|landrace= <!-- or |cross= -->
|x=
<!-- international registries: -->
|cfastd=
|fifestd=
|ipcbastd=
|ticastd=
|wcfstd=
<!-- regional multi-national registries: -->
|ffestd=
<!-- national registries: -->
|acfstd=
|acfastd=
|ccastd=
|cccastd=
|cffstd=
|gccfstd=
|loofstd=
|nzcfstd=
|saccstd=
<!-- any registry not listed above: -->
|otherstd=
|note=
}}
Please note that ultimately all breed standard documents should also be cited in the main article prose for specific facts about the breed (usually appearance), and URLs to them in citation templates should also have archiveurl versions.
All fields are optional. URLs should be entered as is, without wiki markup except for the "otherstd" field.
name
: Most common name of the breed (or landrace, crossbreed, hybrid, etc.). Should agree with article title (aside from any parenthetical disambiguation) and lead sentence, not use an alternative name . Do not include "cat" at the end, unless it is an integral part of the formal name of a breed (e.g. the capitalized "Cat" in "Norwegian Forest Cat"). Names of standardized breeds are capitalized (except after a hyphen). Those of landraces, mongrelized populations, etc., are not (except capitalize the first letter of the parameter value, and any proper names like geographical ones).image
: Image file of the breed. Enter as Example.jpg
instead of Image:Example.jpg
or File:Example.jpg
imagecaption
: Caption that describes the image (e.g. gender, coat pattern and color, etc.)image2
: Second image file of the breed.imagecaption2
: Caption that describes the second imagealtname
: Other reliably sourceable names by which the breed is known to English-speakers. It is also permissible to include the name in the native language, if it uses a Latin script, for breeds or landraces that genuinely came from a non-English-speaking place. If more than one name, separate with ,<br />
. Same capitalization rules as the name
parameter, except for a non-English name, follow the style used in running prose (not headings) in the native-language sources. Non-English names should be wrapped in a correctly specified {{lang}}
template, e.g. {{lang|de|Deutsche Langhaar}}
. For more detailed language information, use the main body of the article.nickname
: Genuinely common, reliably sourceable nicknames. If more than one, separate with ,<br />
. If there are no nicknames in reliable sources, remove the parameter to discourage the addition of made up examples. Except for the first letter of the parameter value, do not capitalize nicknames.stock
: List of foundation stock – the breeds, landraces, or other populations from which the breed was developed, if any are known. May include a wild species or subspecies in the case of a feline hybrid that has been developed into a breed, e.g.: |stock=[[Egyptian Mau]], [[Abyssinian]], and others (domestic); [[Asian leopard cat]] (wild)
for the Bengal cat. origin
(a.k.a. country
): Country or region/area of origin. Do not use flag icons; cats have no nationality and are not patriots.cfastd
: URL to the Cat Fanciers' Association breed standard. Find it here (pick breed name, then "Breed Standard" from the "Breed Profile" inset box on the breed-profile page). This registry is now international, but has its strongest presence in the US, followed by Europe and Japan.fifestd
: URL to the Fédération Internationale Féline breed standard. Find it here. This registry has its strongest presence in Europe and parts of Latin America, though is nominally world-wide.fifestd2
: Optional URL to a second Fédération Internationale Féline breed standard. Use this when FIFé has two separate breed standards for variants of the breed (e.g. Seychellois Longhair and Seychellois Shorthair), typically handled as two divisions in one breed standard in other registries.fifeterm1
: characters (e.g. "SH") to link from for fifestd
when fifestd2
is also used; defaults to "1"fifeterm2
: characters (e.g. "LH") to link from for fifestd2
; defaults to "2"ticastd
: URL to The International Cat Association breed standard. Find it here (copy the URL of the "Breed Introduction" link for the desired breed). This registry is nominally world-wide, but has its strongest presence in the US.wcfstd
: URL to the World Cat Federation breed standard. Find it here: long-haired, semi-long-haired, short-haired and Siamese & oriental divisions. Please use the URL of the PDF link at the bottom of the breed profile page (the PDF version includes additional information, such as revision date). Those are all the lists of WCF "accepted" (for competition) breeds; see also this list of all breeds that are "recognized" (as existing) by WCF. This registry has its strongest presence in Europe, though is nominally world-wide.Another, recent, nominally international registry (its affiliates are primarily US-based), primarily for experimental new breeds, most of which are non-notable:
ipcbastd
: URL to International Progressive Cat Breeders Alliance standard. Find it here, by finding the breed in the list, seeing if it has an IPCBA-affiliated breed association, and if so, finding the breed standard on that sub-organization's site.ffestd
: URL to the Feline Federation Europe breed standard. Find it here, under "Races Standard" in its left menu. (Due to use of frames at that site, you have to right-click or ctrl-click and select "copy link" or your browser's equivalent, to get the actual direct URL of the standards page you want. If you replace www.ffe-europe.de/
with www.bavarian-cfa.de/data/ffe/
in the URL, you can use the resulting new URL to get the underlying static file, from which the last-modified date is the actual publication date; FFE's site is dynamically generated from files hosted statically by the BCFA site run by the same webmaster on the same server). This registry, based in Germany, has its strongest presence in Western and Central Europe.acfstd
: URL to the Australian Cat Federation breed standard. Find it here.acfastd
: URL to the American Cat Fanciers Association (and Cat Aficionado Association, China) breed standard. Find it here. ACFA has its strongest presence in the US East Coast, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. CAA, which uses ACFA standards, is limited to the PRC.acfastd2
: URL to a second American Cat Fanciers Association/Cat Aficionado Association breed standard. Use this when the ACFA/CAA has two separate breed standards for variants of the breed (e.g. American Bobtail Longhair and American Bobtail Shorthair), typically handled as two divisions in one breed standard in other registriesacfaterm1
: characters to link (e.g. "SH") from for acfastd
when acfastd2
is also used; defaults to "1"acfaterm2
: characters to link (e.g. "LH") from for acfastd2
; defaults to "2"ccastd
: URL to the Canadian Cat Association breed standard. Find it here.cccastd
: URL to the Co-ordinating Cat Council of Australia breed standard. Find it here.cffstd
: URL to the Cat Fanciers' Federation breed standard. Find it here. This registry has its strongest presence in the US Northeast, especially Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio and Rhode Island.gccfstd
: URL to the (British) Governing Council of the Cat Fancy breed standard. Find it here (select the breed, then the "Standard of Points" link in the breed profile's sidebar menu).loofstd
: URL to the (French) Livre Officiel des Origines Félines breed standard. Find it here (select breed from list, then click "Breed's Standard" button on the breed-profile page).nzcfstd
: URL to the New Zealand Cat Fancy breed standard. Find it here. NZCF is more permissive than most registries, and is the first/only authority for several breeds, not all of them originating in NZ.saccstd
: URL to the Southern Africa Cat Council breed standard. Find it here (you may have to page down an entire screenful).otherstd
: Free-form field for adding names or acronyms of other registries, with links to their breed standards . An entry should be added as a typical external link with the registry acronym (or name, if short) as link title. Separate multiple entries with ,<br />
for spacing.note
: Free-form concise comments, usually about the breed recognition or standards. Some example uses:
There are two special parameters that can be used in place of those for links to breed standards:
extinct=y
: Shows an "Extinct" message. This parameter should be removed if not used (and do not try extinct=n
; it does not work).notrecognized=y
or notrecognised=y
: Shows a "Not recognized as a standardized breed by any major registry." message. The |notrecognised=y
version outputs the British and Commonwealth English -ised spelling. This parameter (under either spelling) should be removed if not used. Also, if both are accidentally included, the -ised spelling will be used.If a "notrecogni[s|z]ed" or "extinct" parameter is used, all URL fields should be removed. (A link to a former breed recognition document should be added as a regular source citation in the article text about the breed history).
Another special parameter is for cross-species hybrids (not crossbreeds between two domestic breeds with no recent wild ancestor):
x
: The value of the parameter is the wikilinked binomial (scientific name) – piped with Felis abbreviated as F. – of the non-domestic cat to which domestics have been bred to produce the hybrid. It will be italicized for you. E.g., a value of "|x=[[Felis chaus|F. chaus]]
" outputs a result of "Hybrid cat, Felis catus × F. chaus" at the bottom of the infobox, instead of "Domestic cat, Felis catus". For an intergeneric hybrid, use the full name of the genus: |x=[[Prionailurus bengalensis]]
. Another special parameter is for non-breed types:
landrace=y
(a.k.a. cross=y
): Indicates that the article subject is a landrace, crossbreed, mongrelized population, feral population, general type, domestic × wild hybrid, or other classification of cat that is not a standardized breed. This is usually also used with notrecognized=y
(above), and should not be used with any parameters for breed standards, except when the article is about both a landrace and a breed (better done with two infoboxes in two sections), or a crossbreed gaining limited recognition as a standardized breed. This parameter changes "breed" wording to 'variety", and may be used for other more sophisticated processing with later template development.Various obscure, localized, or questionably appropriate (e.g. for-profit and promotional) registries do not have custom parameters; if really needed, their standards can be added with the otherstd
parameter, as documented above. Be suspicious of anything with a global- or national-sounding name that didn't exist 10 years ago, doesn't have a professionally designed website, and looks like a one-person operation, with no notability even in the specialist press. Search for things like "fake purebred cat registry" and read the warning posts. Beware being tricked into promoting a made-up "new breed" that the real world does not accept as legitimate. There is real money in this, thus an incentive for those trying to establish a breed to misuse Wikipedia as a form of advertising and legitimacy-establishment for "backyard breeder" experiments. There is a truly massive problem in dog breeding in the form of puppy mills and exploitative pseudo-organizations , and the problem is spreading to cat breeding. Remember that a breed standard is a primary source that must be used with caution, since the publisher is not independent of the subject and has a promotional, fiduciary interest in its breed standards being seen as authoritative.
notrecognized
parameter or send it to WP:AFD. It is unlikely that CatZ can help establish notability. It is not notable itself, and it fails WP:INDY, since it has strong ties to the breeders of the new cat varieties it is promoting as standardized.otherstd
parameter in such a case.otherstd
parameter. These should not be confused with alleged organizations trying to establish new breeds, or with bogus registries serving "factory" breeding operations.
There is a development sandbox version of this template at Template:Infobox cat breed/sandbox, and several transclusions of it at Template:Infobox cat breed/testcases. Please copy the code from the current version of the template, paste it into the sandbox page, and test any changes on that copy before making them here: there are several special cases which are easily overlooked, and this template is easily "broken".
TemplateData for Infobox cat breed
Allows for the inclusion of an image and caption, common names, nicknames, origin and links to breed standards of major registries. Articles about non domestic felines should use Template:Taxobox.
Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
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Name | name | Most common name of the breed (or landrace, crossbreed, hybrid, etc.). Should agree with article title (aside from any parenthetical disambiguation) | String | suggested |
Image 1 | image | Image file of the breed. Enter as Example.jpg instead of Image:Example.jpg or File:Example.jpg | File | optional |
Image alt text 1 | alt | Helpful alternative text describing the contents of first image for readers unable to view the image.
| String | suggested |
Image caption 1 | imagecaption caption | Caption that describes the first image | String | optional |
Image upright 1 | image_upright | Scale image size. Values less than 1 scale the image down (0.9 = 90%) and values greater than 1 scale the image up (1.15 = 115%). | String | optional |
Image 2 | image2 | Second image file of the breed. | File | optional |
Image alt text 2 | alt2 | Helpful alternative text describing the contents of second image for readers unable to view the image.
| String | optional |
Image caption 2 | imagecaption2 caption2 | Caption that describes the second image | Unknown | optional |
Image upright 2 | image_upright2 | Scale image size. Values less than 1 scale the image down (0.9 = 90%) and values greater than 1 scale the image up (1.15 = 115%). | String | optional |
Other names | altname | Other reliably sourceable names known to English-speakers. It is also permissible to include the name in the native language, if it uses a Latin script, for breeds or landraces that genuinely came from a non-English-speaking place. Non-English names should be wrapped in a correctly specified {{lang}} template, e.g. {{lang|de|Deutsche Langhaar}} | String | suggested |
Common nicknames | nickname | Genuinely common, reliably sourceable nicknames. | String | suggested |
Origin | origin country | Region, area, or country of origin. Do not use flag icons; cats have no nationality and are not patriots. | String | suggested |
Foundation bloodstock | stock breeds | List of foundation stock – the breeds, landraces, or other populations from which the breed was developed, if any are known. | String | suggested |
Extinct? | extinct | Leave blank if not extinct. Otherwise, yes for yes/true if extinct. (Displays under Variety status) | Boolean | optional |
Not recognized? | notrecognized notrecognised | Leave empty if recognized as a standard. Otherwise, select yes/true for "Not recognized". (Displays under Variety status) | Boolean | optional |
Landrace or cross? | landrace cross | Indicates a landrace, crossbreed, mongrelized or feral population, general type, domestic × wild hybrid, or other classification of cat that is not a standardized breed. | Boolean | optional |
x | x × | Wikilinked binomial (scientific name) – piped with Felis abbreviated as F. – of the non-domestic cat to which domestics have been bred to produce the hybrid. It will be italicized for you.
| Unbalanced wikitext | optional |
URL for standard: CFA | cfastd | Cat Fanciers' Association | URL | suggested |
URL for standard: FIFe 1 | fifestd fifestd1 | Fédération Internationale Féline 1 | URL | suggested |
FIFe Term 1 | fifeterm fifeterm1 | Fédération Internationale Féline Term 1 | Unknown | optional |
URL for standard: FIFe 2 | fifestd2 | Fédération Internationale Féline 2 | URL | optional |
FIFe Term 2 | fifeterm2 | Fédération Internationale Féline Term 2 | Unknown | optional |
URL for standard: IPCBA | ipcbastd | International Progressive Cat Breeders Alliance | URL | suggested |
URL for standard: TICA | ticastd | The International Cat Association | URL | suggested |
URL for standard: WCF | wcfstd | World Cat Federation | URL | suggested |
URL for standard: FFE | ffestd | Feline Federation Europe | URL | optional |
URL for standard: ACF | acfstd | Australian Cat Federation | URL | optional |
URL for standard: ACFA/CAA 1 | acfastd acfastd1 | American Cat Fanciers Association / Cat Aficionado Association 1 | URL | optional |
ACFA/CAA Term 1 | acfaterm acfaterm1 | American Cat Fanciers Association / Cat Aficionado Association Term 1 | Unknown | optional |
URL for standard: ACFA/CAA 2 | acfastd2 | American Cat Fanciers Association / Cat Aficionado Association 2 | URL | optional |
ACFA/CAA Term 2 | acfaterm2 | American Cat Fanciers Association / Cat Aficionado Association Term 2 | Unknown | optional |
URL for standard: CCA-AFC | ccastd ccaafcstd ccafcstd cca-afcstd | Canadian Cat Association | URL | optional |
URL for standard: CCAA | cccastd cccofastd | Co-ordinating Cat Council of Australia | URL | optional |
URL for standard: CFF | cffstd | Cat Fanciers' Federation | URL | optional |
URL for standard: GCCF | gccfstd | Governing Council of the Cat Fancy | URL | optional |
URL for standard: LOOF | loofstd | Livre Officiel des Origines Félines | URL | optional |
URL for standard: NZCF | nzcfstd | New Zealand Cat Fancy | URL | optional |
URL for standard: SACC | saccstd | Southern Africa Cat Council | URL | optional |
Other standard | otherstd | Names or acronyms of other registries, with links to their breed standards (see also the "Note" parameter, for non-standards-issuing organizations/agencies) | String | optional |
Notes | note | Concise comments, usually about the breed recognition or standards
| String | optional |
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, and classes for individual taxonomic ranks, such as class="domain"
in a span around {{{domain}}} (full list). Please do not change or remove those classes other than as part of development of the microformat. For background information, see microformats on Wikipedia and the microformat specification.