Template:Infobox cat breed/sandbox

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	[[File:{{{image}}}\|frameless\|upright=1]] {{{imagecaption}}}
	[[File:{{{image2}}}\|frameless\|upright=1]] {{{imagecaption2}}}
Other names	{{{altname}}}
Common nicknames	{{{nickname}}}
Origin	{{{origin}}}
Feline hybrid (Felis catus × {{{x}}})

Infobox cat breed/sandbox
Infobox cat breed/sandbox
	Domestic cat (Felis catus)

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Usage

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.

Parameters

All fields are optional. URLs should be entered as is, without wiki markup except for the "otherstd" field.

Basic parameters

name:
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 image
altname: 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
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
. (See also the x parameter, below.)

origin (a.k.a. country): Country or region/area of origin. Do not use flag icons
; cats have no nationality and are not patriots.

International registries (use these four at a minimum, if they provide a standard)

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.

Regional multi-national registries

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.

National registries

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 registries
acfaterm1: 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).

Other parameters

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:
- Recognition by organizations (private or governmental) that do not issue breed standards, e.g.: "Recognized by the ARBA."
- Major registries that refuse to recognize a breed recognized by most others, e.g.: "Not recognized by [linked acronym of conservative registry here]."
  - Briefly mentioning classification issues, e.g.: "Classified as just a variant of the [other breed named and linked here] by [linked acronym of conservative registry here]."
  - Showing unusual status limitations, e.g.: "Not eligible for championship status in linked acronym of conservative registry here] shows."
  - For landraces and other non-breed populations, can indicate what they are, e.g.: "Landrace.", or "Feral cat population.", or "Crossbreed, with provisional recognition as a breed in one major registry."

This parameter is not for breed-specific or local/regional clubs.

Special parameters

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

crossbreeds

between two domestic breeds with no recent wild ancestor):

x: The value of the parameter is the wikilinked binomial (scientific name) –
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.

Registries not included

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

promotional, fiduciary interest

in its breed standards being seen as authoritative.

WP:CRYSTAL
matter).

Rare and Exotic Feline Registry (REFR) – Same story as with ARBA, basically, except they want there to be a wild (non-domestic) cat in the woodpile somewhere. Sometimes does not publish standards, other times has summary ones. If you say it's a breed, that there's a wild species in the mix somewhere in the bloodline, and send in your check and some pictures, they agree it's a breed, too.

Designer Cat Association (and division/affiliate Dwarf Cat Assocation) – Same as above, and now defunct.

CatZ (New Zealand) should not have their standards (listed here) added to all breeds' articles (it won't be encyclopedically relevant in most cases, but
WP:INDY
, since it has strong ties to the breeders of the new cat varieties it is promoting as standardized.

No standards available: Some (even some well-established) pedigree registries may not produce breed standards, but rely on others for them, or may provide them only to paying members:
World Cat Congress (WCC) – This confederation of federations does not issue breed standards. However, its "Breed Comparisons" pages are often good sources for a detail or two, and the organization does sometimes issue breeding rules (permissible outcrosses, etc.) which may be adopted or deferred to by member federations (often including WCF). It may also issue judging recommendations (non-binding) for disqualifications that might help preserve distinctive breed traits.

American Cat Association (ACA) – Breed standards not available online. If you want to cite a paper copy, use a full {{cite book}} template in the main article body.

United Feline Organization (UFO) – Breed standards (if any) not available online.

World Felinology Federation (WFF, serving Russia and the CIS) – Does not itself publish breed standards; it is simply a cross-federation pedigree service that accepts any breed recognized by others.

No-name and kitten-mill registries: Others that do not have a parameter are the following "no-name" pseudo-registries used by "kitten mills" (cat equivalent of puppy mills), and listed in various online warnings, including:
US Kitten & Cat Registry (USKCR, of Plainview, New York) – apparently affiliated with the bogus "Dog Registry of America" puppy mill.

International Progressive Cat Breeders' Alliance (IPCBA, of Upton, Kentucky). Part of an International Progressive Breeders' Alliance, set up to be something of a competitor to REFR in 1996, and defunct since 2017.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – They actually have a "commercial breeding farms" registration system, which can include large-scale kitten farms, said to be the source of the cats in most American pet stores. USDA does not establish breed standards, anyway.

"ICF" – This organization has not even been identified. One would guess that it means "[I...something] Cat Federation" (International? Italian? Iranian? Idaho?).

Obscure: Some others that are rarely if ever needed are:
the Bahrain Cat Club (BCC)

Cat Federation of Southern Africa (CFSA)

European Cat Fancy (ECF, partially functional website [1], seems to just be a breeder directory)

Norske Rasekattklubbers Riksförbund (NRR, Norway)

Selectional Feline Federation (SFF, Russia)

United Feline Organization (UFO, mostly western US counterpart to CFF, and uses TICA standards for at least some breeds)

Plus some Latin American ones.

back-breed
extinct varieties from extant stock. Regardless, they are not breeds in any encyclopedic sense, are mostly not notable as varieties, and the organization is not notable.

If any of those become bluelinks, maybe they should get a parameter in this template. One can be created anyway if you'll be adding information from that registry to quite a number of articles and are certain it is not bogus. However, some of these may turn out to be affiliates of one of the major organizations (see "Redundant sub-clubs", below).

Redundant sub-clubs: There is no point adding standards parameters for the individual national and breed-specific clubs that form the major organizations and supply them with breed standards. Any
merged to the article on the parent organization, as they are usually non-notable. Examples include the Fédération Féline Française, Federazione Italiana Associazioni Feline, and Indonesian Cat Association (FIFe affiliates); Manx Breed Council, Cat Owners Association of Western Australia, Cincinnati Cat Club, etc. (local affiliates of national registries GCCF, ACF, and CFA, respectively). The WCF also has regional/national affiliates, such as the Australian Independent Cat Council (AICC). Another WCF affiliate is Australian National Cats Inc. (ANCats, formerly Waratah National Cat Alliance
or WNCA), but it also sometimes publishes its own standards for non-WCF breeds, and might be usable in the otherstd parameter in such a case.

Independent breed-specific clubs: Occasional exceptions may exist to the point above, in the form of a national or international organization for a long-established breed, and preferred by many breeders and keepers over the big federations, perhaps because of disputes about the breed standards or recognition. (No examples are evident at this time for cats, though this situation is common in horse breeding, and not unknown in the dog fancy). These are not
independent of the subject
, so are primary sources to be used with caution, but can be added via the otherstd parameter. These should not be confused with alleged organizations trying to establish new breeds, or with bogus registries serving "factory" breeding operations.

Missing national registries? There may be some national, unaffiliated registries of note that could be added, that are missing here because of lack of English-language material about them.

Tracking categories

Categories populated via parameter validation

Category:Pages using infobox cat breed with duplicate parameters (0)

Category:Pages using infobox cat breed with unknown parameters (5)

Category:Pages using infobox cat breed with deprecated parameters (0)

Testing changes

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

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Infobox cat breed in articles based on its TemplateData.
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.
Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter Description Type Status
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.
Example
A striped cat walking through grass, it has a distinctive M pattern on the forehead.
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.
Example
A striped cat walking through grass, it has a distinctive M pattern on the forehead.
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.
Suggested values
[[Scientific_name|F. Scientific_name]]
Example
| x = [[Felis chaus|F. chaus]]
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
Example
Not recognized by [linked acronym of conservative registry here].
String optional

Microformat

This template emits a "species" (or "biota") microformat.
The microformat is created by the use of class="biota", and classes for individual taxonomic ranks, such as class="domain" in a span around {{{domain}}} (
microformats on Wikipedia and the microformat specification
.

See also

Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats

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