Wikipedia:WikiProject Dogs/Dog breeds task force/Categories

The Categories feature allows us to add a to each dog-related article and have it show up automatically in a list of hierarchically related topics.

The main category for domestic dogs is Category:Dogs.

Subcategories
It currently has as subcategories:


 * Category:Dog breeds for articles about specific breeds of dogs
 * Category:Dog types for articles about related groups of dogs, such as hounds, working dogs, collies, etc.
 * Category:Famous dogs
 * Category:Films about dogs
 * Category:Dog health, for medical, care, surgical, parasites, etc.
 * Category:Dog organizations, for any dog-rleate organizations, with subtopic:
 * Category:kennel clubs
 * Category:Dog shows and showing
 * Category:Dog sports
 * Category:Dog training and behavior
 * Category:Working dogs, for articles about jobs that dogs do, with the subcategory:
 * Category:Service dogs

Supercategories
It belongs to the following categories:
 * Category:Canines
 * Category:Domesticated animals
 * Category:Pets

Articles needing categories
All of the remaining articles in the following lists need to have categories applied to them, but it isn't entirely clear how to categorize them nor whether these lists will ever go away, as there is considerable annotation on each item and there are items in the latter two lists for which there are no articles and never will be articles.
 * List of fictional dogs
 * List of famous dogs

Dealing with lists of items without articles
One possibility is to move the lists into the textual portion of the Category pages, so that there are, for example, 2 separate lists in the one category page: One generated from articles with Category labels, and the other for items with no related articles. Unfortunately, as of 9/9/04, there is no way to specify which of the two lists comes first in the Category page, leaving the probably more important (generated) list at the bottom and the list of minor topics without articles at the top.

However, that still loses all of the annotations about the items *with* articles that the current lists enjoy.

Subdividing lists into categories
Given that we leave the annotated lists in place and ALSO have a category for the articles:

Proposal for remaining articles, Please comment on discussion page:


 * From List of dog topics:
 * Category:Dogs as pets
 * Category:Dogs in culture and society (?not sure about this one)
 * Category:Dog development and breeding
 * No good suggestions for:
 * Miscellaneous
 * Veterinarians
 * Descriptions of dogs
 * Relatives of dogs


 * From List of fictional dogs: (do we want to have subsubcategories here?)
 * Category:Dogs in myth and legend (currently "Legendary, mythical and fairytale dogs") (currently 16 articles out of 16 in the list)
 * Category:Dogs in literature (currently 12 articles out of a list of many)
 * [[:Category:Dogs in film (note that this is not the same as Films about dogs--but maybe latter shd be subcategory of this?) (currently only about 10 articles out of a list of many--actually most of these 10 are covered in Films about dogs! Hmmm...)
 * Category:Dogs on the radio (0 articles out of a list of 1)
 * Category:Dogs on television (5 articles out of a list of many)
 * Category:Dogs in advertising (2 articles out of a list of 5)
 * Category:Animated and cartoon dogs (currently "Cartoons, animation, puppets") (35 articles out of many many)
 * Category:Dogs in song (0 articles out of many)


 * From List of historical dogs: (subsubcategories? current page has dogs famous in their own right, famous dogs of presidents, famous dogs of other famous people; HOWEVER, there are only about 10 of a list of many that have their own article, and I believe that they're all already covered in the existing Category:Famous dogs!)