Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mammals/Pocket pets work group

Proposed merger with WikiProject Squirrels

For the purposes of centralized discussion, please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Squirrels#Proposed merger to Pocket pets work group. Thank you. John Carter 21:50, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

English Spot

I am currently working on an article about a breed of rabbit, the English Spot. I believe this article may fall in to the WikiProject Mammals/Pocket pets work group. I was looking to further improve this article and was wondering if I could get some feed back on what sections the article is missing or which sections could use further expansion. The article is still missing a picture, and I'm currently working on trying to get one put up. If anyone from the project would like to help that would be great. Trio32 (talk) 19:54, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Llano Pocket Gopher

I am mixed up regarding this species, are Geomys texensis (iucnredlist.org) (MSW3) and Pappogeomys (Cratogeomys) gymnurus (iucnredlist.org) (MSW3) the same animal? Iucnredlist.org calls both species "Llano Pocket Gopher", but MSW3 calls Geomys texensis "Central Texas Pocket Gopher". The Latin names direct to different WP articles, but both claim the same common name "Llano Pocket Gopher". Using this information, I think Pappogeomys gymnurus should redirect to Llano Pocket Gopher, and Geomys texensis should be moved to Central Texas Pocket Gopher. Is this correct? Regards. --Tombstone (talk) 02:22, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Nevermind, I noticed the bot did this on several articles and have been fixing them as I go. Rgds. --Tombstone (talk) 20:56, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Proposed breakup of Pocket pets work group

I propose that the Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/Pocket pets work group be broken into two distinct groups, for rodents and lagomorphs. Would there be any opposition? John Carter (talk) 21:47, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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I Clearly Agree

My Old Account's Name Was Pier Snake, and I lost the password and nobody believes me. I am agreeing to this, feel free to merge these pages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by MapleHammer (talk • contribs) 23:31, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

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WikiProject Rodents

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Proposed work on rabbit pages

• Create new page(s):
  • Rabbit care and nutrition (to include housing, coprophagy and digestive system)
  • Rabbit health and diseases (to include vet care, use of disease as control, etc)
  • Rabbit breeding and genetics
• Improve rabbit by moving information to european rabbit and adding in more non-european rabbit specific information.
• Merge european rabbit, domestic rabbit and house rabbit, moving info to new pages above.
• Take out care and behaviour sections from pages on rabbit breeds (apart from breed specific requirements) and merge these pages where there is insufficient information for individual pages. If these get bigger they can be put back in individual articles.

Any thoughts? Halon8 (talk) 00:12, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Sachsengold

Please see here.

Many thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:49, 10 June 2015 (UTC)

Deleted. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:19, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Merge discussion notice

Resolved

 – Merge done in 2017.

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)

Capitalization of names of standardized breeds

FYI

 – Pointer to relevant discussion elsewhere.

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

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Redefine scope to Lagomorpha

It would be less restrictive if this work group was changed to "Lagomorphs work group" or "WikiProject Lagomorphs" rather than the nebulous "Pocket pets" that doesn't apply to most of the articles defined in the scope anyway. There's also some awkward overlap with Rodents while we still have this title. Reconrabbit 20:34, 15 November 2024 (UTC)