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This is a subpage of WikiProject Dogs that was created by moving the discussion originally started at WT:WikiProject Dogs#List of 100 dog "breeds" in need of review/reclassification/deletion. For discussions about any of the topics on this subpage, go to this subpage's talk/discussion page.


List of 100 dog "breeds" in need of review/reclassification/deletion

Moved to Articles needing attention along with the discussion that followed. (see tab) Atsme 💬 📧 20:04, 28 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]


Rewritten or expanded and sourced

Merged

  • Maremma Sheepdog
  • Talk:Bhotia dog#Merger proposal: Gaddi Kutta
  • Bhotia dog
    , CM 11 Aug 20
  • Miniature Dachshund – merged into Dachshund
    , CM 10 Jun 21
  • Tracking (dog) - sourced and extended, merged with "Tracking trial" article
  • Trigg Hound
     - is a variety of the American Fox hound; merged.

Redirected

AfD

Notability-Recognition

Moved (renamed)

Needs attention
References for section
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Real Decreto 558/2001, de 25 de mayo, por el que se regula el reconocimiento oficial de las organizaciones o asociaciones de criadores de perros de raza pura. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación.
  2. ^ Barbado da Terceira. Clube Português de Canicultura.
  3. ^ Razze Italiane. Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana.

William Harristalk 12:37, 17 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion
I agree we need to go over this stuff and weed out the chaff. However, quite a few of these are not breeds/landraces, but general types, breed groups, or working roles, and we should keep articles on them (if anything, they may provide merge-to targets). Some that pop right out are
domesticated red fox doesn't belong in this list, and is clearly notable since all sorts of a high-end sourcing has been written about it for decades; husky is a breed group, and obviously notable; mongrel is a general article; pointing dog is said in its lead to be a type but is probably a breed group, and should also be covering the genetics of the behavior (I saw an interesting article back-when on how pointing and setting appear to be a kind of neural short-circuit, a mild seizure, that turned out beneficial for humans and was bred-true on purpose); sighthound is a major dog type; tracking (dog)
is canine behavior and working role article. I would remove at least those from this list.
  • I've moved the mal-named
    Small Greek Domestic Dog to Kokoni
    (it's one that I PRODed back in 2014, and it still likely is not notable, though I did also just do a cleanup pass on it).
  • Tracking (dog) should move along with some other such articles to have "(dogs)" disambiguation. The "(dog)" one implies a specific dog by the disambiguated name ("Togo (dog)", etc.); in something like "tracking (dogs)" we mean "tracking, in the context of dogs" just as "cell (biology)" means "cell, in the context of biology".
  • Another fix: We need to move
    WP:OR
    on this site, and we need to hunt it down. I honestly think that's a higher priority than deleting questionably notable dog articles, other than spammy ones that are trying to market neo-breeds.
  • See, for example, the cleanup I just did at Kokoni, which was preposterously claiming that a breed established only a few years ago by a small club is commonly found all over Greece and has been a favorite amongst Greeks for centuries! It verged on intentionally misleading (or willfully ignorant) writing. What it really meant was that vaguely comparable landrace dogs, of quite broad ancestry but a general medium-small size range, have been in the area for a long time, primarily as pets not as working animals, and were used as foundation stock for the recently established breed). There are probably at least 50 articles with problems like this, and I would start with the ones on the extinct list, since very few of them were breeds in anything like a formal sense.
  • I'm finding other and more serious OR problems, but will post about that separately.
 — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  06:57, 21 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
William Harris, how do you envisage that others should respond to this? Should we annotate your list, or offer responses here below? (not going to mess further with your post without your OK). Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:35, 26 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Truthfully, I really have no idea. I did much hack-work identifying them and regard that as my major contribution. I am now quickly reviewing them and: (a) badging them with breeds=yes if some reputable national kennel organisation has a standard for them (e.g. Germany) and this is placed as a Note in the breedbox with a link to the standard (in which case these are removed from this list); (b) badging the article with the Notability template if they look dubious, such as those articles based around a foreign name for a breed and then an article has been built around it (e.g. the Chinese name for Saluki!); and (c) some I am just unsure about. I assume all of those remaining on the list above should be targeted for AfD or merging into other articles. William Harristalk 02:25, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Then may I suggest striking through those that you've verified as OK, rather than removing them? Any that have been deleted will turn red, of course. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 10:03, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Polish Hunting Dog – I have taken the liberty of striking the
Polish Hunting Dog, I found three (admittedly scant) mentions in three books I have. I have rewritten the article with the little I had and renamed it Gończy Polski as all three sources use the Polish name exclusively. If anyone has anything else I could use to expand upon it would be appreciated. Kind regards, Cavalryman (talk) 11:27, 27 February 2020 (UTC).[reply
]
I have now reinstated and striked through the deleted dogs, which is a much better idea. The technology I used to derive this list - a huge extract, sort, and match - was not 100% accurate and so a few breeds recognised by the major kennel clubs have slipped onto the list. William Harristalk 21:03, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Black and Tan Virginia Foxhound - I have found references to “Virginia foxhounds” in three books, all mention it as a progenitor of the Black and Tan Coonhound but state nothing else at all (none mention the “Black and Tan”).[1][2][3] What are thoughts on a merger with the Black and Tan Coonhound? Cavalryman (talk) 10:40, 2 March 2020 (UTC).[reply]

References

  1. ISBN 1-85310-912-6
    .
  2. ISBN 978-0-7566-6004-8
    .
  3. ISBN 978-1-84797-601-7
    .

Italian breeds

This more or less follows on from William's post above: Sixteen Italian breeds are recognised in Italy by the Ente Nazionale della Cinofilia Italiana, the national dog club. Our template {{Italian dogs}} lists thirty-three. Since our article Segugio Italiano combines two distinct breeds (Segugio italiano a pelo forte, Segugio italiano a pelo raso) into one page, we appear to have sixteen articles on breeds that have no national recognition (two of the breeds in the template are not linked to any article). I propose merging all of them (if soundly sourced) into a brief List of Italian dog breeds without national recognition – unless anyone has any better title suggestion? Any objections or possible reasons not to do that? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 23:14, 27 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

My reticence is this may open Pandora’s box with a flood of similar articles for every country in the world. As said previously, I believe a lack of kennel club recognition does not preclude notability, if there are sources do you think List of dog breeds will suffice for the moment? I admit that list is becoming ungainly and it may be time to cull the recognition parameters and divide it into national sections, but that is discussion for that talk page. Cavalryman (talk) 02:52, 28 February 2020 (UTC).[reply]
A tricky one. Let's hear what Mac has to say.
Additionally, the
Potsdam Greyhound appears to be the Italian greyhound under this name, with a quick merge available. William Harristalk 03:43, 28 February 2020 (UTC)[reply
]
I wouldn't do "without national recognition"; it would be a non-
WP:AFD
. And quite a few of these are probably either extinct landraces for which no breed standards were ever developed, or very modern attempts to establish breeds. There are several approaches to this that seem obvious:
  1. Have
    Stand-alone list inclusion criteria at List of dog breeds that permit non-notable but attestable entries, and things that are not strictly breeds but any variety with a name, and move the page to List of dog varieties
    . This could make the list quite long.
  2. Keep the current tighter, notable-entries-only criteria, but permit looser articles like a
    WP:NOT#INDISCRIMINATE
    level (i.e. should be covered with at least a list entry). But it would definitely result in a non-trivial number of new list articles.
  3. Keep List of dog varieties tight, but create some side articles, perhaps List of experimental dog breeds to go along with List of experimental cat breeds, and List of extinct dog varieties, and don't bother doing anything geographically (we already have navboxes doing that anyway). That would seem to cover every eventuality without a profusion of geographical list articles that duplicate the navboxes.
  4. Just AfD everything that isn't stand-alone notable, and effectively declare that non-notable varieties categorically also fail INDISCRIMINATE. I don't think that's actually a valid position under policy, or under operational consensus at AFD. I attempted to eliminate a cat experimental-breed article and an alleged dog variety article at AfD, and in both cases the result was "merge" (to
    pachón navarro
    in the other).
I would most favor the third of these approaches, then probably the second, then the first, in descending order of practicality.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  01:57, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Mac. I believe our first step is to "Just AfD everything that isn't stand-alone notable" and see where we are after that. William Harristalk 20:57, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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