User:SilverTiger12

I am a sporadic editor but somewhat obsessive editor with an interest in the various members of the family Felidae, including all taxa and domestic breeds thereof.

Reviews
I'm better at reviewing articles than actually writing them. Good Articles especially have to struggle with a backlog, and the often jargon-heavy paleontology articles even moreso. Since I like seeing articles achieve GA (and even better, FA) status, I consider these reviews as doing my part in the giant collaboration that is Wikipedia.

Lantian man • Imperobator •  Trinisaura •  Panthera onca mesembrina •  Titanoboa •  Klallamornis •  Carcharodontosaurus •  Hudson Mountains •  Placidium arboreum •  Island bronze-naped pigeon •  Snowy plover •  Xiphodon
 * Good Articles reviewed:

List of carnivorans • List of cervids •  List of afrosoricids •  List of dasyuromorphs •  List of diprotodonts •  List of peramelemorphs •  List of pilosans •  List of lorisoids •  List of storks •  List of cercopithecoids •  List of tapaculos •  List of books bound in human skin •  List of hominoids •  List of cranes •  List of tarsiiformes •  List of gymnosperm families •  List of sunbirds •  Outline of lichens •  List of platyrrhines •  1952 in spaceflight •  List of primates
 * Featured Lists reviewed:

Beaver • Solo Man •  Red panda •  Coccinellidae •  Titanis •  Ohmdenosaurus •  Mimodactylus •  Polar bear •  Sun in fiction •  Hypericum sechmenii •  Philosophy •  Nyctibatrachus major •  The Firebird
 * Featured Articles reviewed:

Felids

 * User:SilverTiger12/sandbox3 - article incubation
 * User:SilverTiger12/sandbox4 - template incubation
 * User:SilverTiger12/sandbox5 - histories
 * User:SilverTiger12/List of fossil felids - sandbox draft that may never make it to mainspace
 * User:SilverTiger12/Cladograms

In a weird position: Sivasmilus

Extant feline genera
Excluding extinct genera but (mostly) including extinct species.

Possible in the future: Corsican wildcat

See also: Sardinian wildcat,  Cretan wildcat.

Projects, Goals, and Proposals

 * User:SilverTiger12/sandbox2

Important note: Much of what I'm planning is modeled after what others are doing at the now-thriving WikiProject Dogs. In this way I hope to revive the Cats WikiProject and bring the general quality of cat-related articles up.

Cat breeds

 * Go through all cat breeds and landraces, organizing them in to the categories Cat:Cat breeds or Cat:Cat landraces as applicable, merge experimental cat breeds into the list thereof; create(?) and merge non-notable crossbreeds into List of cat crossbreeds; create(?) and merge extinct varieties into List of extinct cat varieties.
 * Five lists for the end result: List of cat breeds (restricted to only those breeds notable enough to have their own article), List of experimental cat breeds; List of cat crossbreeds; List of cat landraces; and List of extinct cat varieties.
 * Categories to contain the end result: Category:Cat varieties, with subcategories Category:Cat breeds and Category:Cat landraces, Category:Extinct cat varieties. The lists go in the master category. As of right now, I highly doubt that there are any notable cat crossbreeds (hence no category for them).
 * Currently not sure what to do about wholly fictitious breeds such as the Pittsburgh refrigerator cat, Mexican Hairless Cat, and Sumxu.

Other

 * Just generally work, either alone or with fellow editors, to improve upon the various cat articles.


 * Clean up the various Felid hybrids. Consider merging most, if not all, of the Panthera hybrids into the main article due to notability issues.
 * Main article: Felid hybrid
 * Domestic-wild hybrid breeds: Bengal cat (leopard cat x house cat), Chausie (jungle cat x house cat), Savannah cat (serval x house cat) - as known cat breeds, these are all notable.
 * Small wild hybrids: blynx, caraval - both are short on sources and perhaps should be redirected to their respective sections in the main article.
 * Panthera hybrids - also needs severe clean-up and overhaul.
 * "Congolese spotted lion"
 * Liger
 * Liliger
 * Tigon
 * Idea: merge liger, tigon, and liliger into new article Lion-tiger hybrids.
 * Pumapard - it might be notable, but it is presently short on citations and needs a severe overhaul.
 * Felid color[/pattern] morphs
 * Tigers:
 * White tiger - this could go to FA with effort
 * Golden tiger - notability questionable
 * Leopards & jaguars:
 * Black panther (leopards and jaguars)
 * White panther (leopards and jaguars) - notability questionable
 * Strawberry leopard - check if this meets GNG (here's 1 RS)
 * White lion - needs serious clean-up
 * King cheetah


 * User:SilverTiger12/sandbox2

Bits and bobs
A list of, "if only I could write"'s....
 * Ray cat
 * Cats in art:
 * My Wife's Lovers
 * Myojakdo • Gukjeong chumyo
 * The Tyger
 * Cheshire Cat - a magnet for drive-by edits
 * Yaghūth
 * Cats in mythology & folklore:
 * Greek: Nemean lion •  Lion of Cithaeron
 * (Japanese): The kaibyō : maneki-neko •  bakeneko •  nekomata
 * (Chinese): bì'àn &  suānní •  Báihǔ
 * Snow Lion
 * Yule cat - this one I actually did do, converting it from a redirect back into an article
 * Of the fearsome critters: splintercat • glawackus • cactus cat • ball-tailed cat
 * Panther (legendary creature)
 * Korgorusha (Коргоруши) - User:SilverTiger12/Korgorusha
 * Cats in the stars:
 * Leo (constellation)
 * List of stars in Leo
 * Leonids
 * Leo in astrology
 * Leo Minor
 * List of stars in Leo Minor
 * Leonis Minorids
 * Lynx (constellation)
 * List of stars in Lynx
 * Leo Palatinus - obsolete constellation. Very obscure.
 * Felis (constellation) - obsolete constellation