User talk:Yanzsasc/sandbox

Article evaluation The intro has an awkward sentence structure. In the ancient Egypt and China sections there is a lot of room for expanding topics presented in the sections such as the reasoning behind why killing a cat was forbidden and why long haired cats in China were meant for catching rats while other types of cats were just meant to be pets. In the Islam section there is another article that goes into the specifics of Islam and cats. Some of that article could be briefly summarized in this section since the information is already present and it would be convenient for the information to be in both places depending on what brought the reader to the specific page. Yanzsasc (talk) 21:31, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

possible sources https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/domesticated-cats-dna-genetics-pets-science/?user.testname=none https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/domestic-cats-enjoyed-village-life-in-china-5300-years-ago-180948065/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-house-cats-158390681/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yanzsasc (talk • contribs) 01:37, 22 October 2018 (UTC)

peer review
You added good information to this article about how they domesticated themselves and how they came from Europe and Asia. Your sources are good and reliable. I would only say that you could do a few more edits but you said you planned on working on fixing the structure of the article itself. I think this would be a good idea to keep the article flowing and not jumping from one thing to another. This article is super interesting and there is so much information on it. You could always write down how you plan to rearrange the structure of the article to show the work you're putting into that. Yanzsasc (talk) 14:42, 29 October 2018 (UTC) Paige Evans

Future plans for Cultural Depiction of Cats
There are many areas of opportunity for improve,tn in my article but I have decided to focus on the overall structure of the piece and the sourcing in two to three sections. The structure of the article will be as follows;

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1. Earliest History

2. Africa

2.1 Egypt

3. Europe

3.1 Ancient Greece and Rome

3.2 Middle Ages

3.3 Renaissance and Victorian

3.4 Russia

4. Asian

4.1 Japan

4.2 China

5. Islam

6. Modern Culture

7. Other

Section wise, I am going to focus on Earliest History, Japan, and Russia as potential areas of improvement and expansion. In the Earliest History section there is a lot of room to expand scientifically on the relationship between cats and humans. The majority of the article has not been updated since 2012 and since then I have found a few studies showing the study of domestic cat DNA and how it has changed from their wild cousins. In the Japan section their in a heavy reliance on a single source with vast amounts of information in the section. I want to add several more sources along with the well- known "Hello Kitty". In Russia there is not a lot of information so I wish to expand that along with learning more about Russia's relationship with cats, which I see as more of challenge area personally. Yanzsasc (talk) 22:42, 5 November 2018 (UTC)