Template:Infobox cat breed/doc

Usage
Typical use:



Please note that ultimately all breed standard documents should also be cited in the main article prose for specific facts about the breed (usually appearance), and URLs to them in citation templates should also have archiveurl versions.

Parameters
All fields are optional. URLs should be entered as is, without wiki markup except for the "otherstd" field.
 * Basic parameters:
 *  : Most common name of the breed (or landrace, crossbreed, hybrid, etc.). Should agree with article title (aside from any parenthetical disambiguation) and lead sentence, not use an alternative name . Do not include "cat" at the end, unless it is an integral part of the formal name of a breed (e.g. the capitalized "Cat" in "Norwegian Forest Cat"). Names of standardized breeds are capitalized (except after a hyphen). Those of landraces, mongrelized populations, etc., are not (except capitalize the first letter of the parameter value, and any proper names like geographical ones).
 *  : Image file of the breed. Enter as  instead of   or
 *  : Caption that describes the image (e.g. gender, coat pattern and color, etc.)
 *  : Second image file of the breed.
 *  : Caption that describes the second image
 *  : Other names by which the breed is known to English-speakers. It is also permissible to include the name in the native language, if it uses a Latin script, for breeds or landraces that genuinely came from a non-English-speaking place. If more than one name, separate with  . Same capitalization rules as the   parameter, except for a non-English name, follow the style used in running prose (not headings) in the native-language sources. Non-English names should be wrapped in a correctly specified  template, e.g. . For more detailed language information, use the main body of the article.
 *  : Genuinely common, nicknames. If more than one, separate with  . If there are no nicknames in reliable sources, remove the parameter to discourage the addition of made up examples. Except for the first letter of the parameter value, do not capitalize nicknames.
 *  : List of foundation stock – the breeds, landraces, or other populations from which the breed was developed, if any are known. May include a wild species or subspecies in the case of a feline hybrid that has been developed into a breed, e.g.: Egyptian Mau, Abyssinian, and others (domestic); Asian leopard cat (wild) for the Bengal cat.
 *   (a.k.a. ): Country or region/area of origin. ; cats have no nationality and are not patriots.
 * International registries (use these four at a minimum, if they provide a standard):
 *  : URL to the Cat Fanciers' Association breed standard. Find it here (pick breed name, then "Breed Standard" from the "Breed Profile" inset box on the breed-profile page). This registry is now international, but has its strongest presence in the US, followed by Europe and Japan.
 *  : URL to the Fédération Internationale Féline breed standard. Find it here. This registry has its strongest presence in Europe and parts of Latin America, though is nominally world-wide.
 *  : Optional URL to a second Fédération Internationale Féline breed standard. Use this when FIFé has two separate breed standards for variants of the breed (e.g. Seychellois Longhair and Seychellois Shorthair), typically handled as two divisions in one breed standard in other registries.
 *  : characters (e.g. "SH") to link from for  when   is also used; defaults to "1"
 *  : characters (e.g. "LH") to link from for ; defaults to "2"

Another, recent, nominally international registry (its affiliates are primarily US-based), primarily for experimental new breeds, most of which are non-notable:
 *  : URL to The International Cat Association breed standard. Find it here (copy the URL of the "Breed Introduction" link for the desired breed). This registry is nominally world-wide, but has its strongest presence in the US.
 *  : URL to the World Cat Federation breed standard. Find it here: long-haired, semi-long-haired, short-haired and Siamese & oriental divisions. Please use the URL of the PDF link at the bottom of the breed profile page (the PDF version includes additional information, such as revision date). Those are all the lists of WCF "accepted" (for competition) breeds; see also this list of all breeds that are "recognized" (as existing) by WCF. This registry has its strongest presence in Europe, though is nominally world-wide.
 *  : URL to International Progressive Cat Breeders Alliance standard. Find it here, by finding the breed in the list, seeing if it has an IPCBA-affiliated breed association, and if so, finding the breed standard on that sub-organization's site.
 * Regional multi-national registries:
 *  : URL to the Feline Federation Europe breed standard. Find it here, under "Races Standard" in its left menu. (Due to use of frames at that site, you have to right-click or ctrl-click and select "copy link" or your browser's equivalent, to get the actual direct URL of the standards page you want. If you replace  with   in the URL, you can use the resulting new URL to get the underlying static file, from which the last-modified date is the actual publication date; FFE's site is dynamically generated from files hosted statically by the BCFA site run by the same webmaster on the same server). This registry, based in Germany, has its strongest presence in Western and Central Europe.
 * National registries:
 *  : URL to the American Association of Cat Enthusiasts breed standard. Find it here.
 *  : URL to the Australian Cat Federation breed standard. Find it here.
 *  : URL to the American Cat Fanciers Association (and Cat Aficionado Association, China) breed standard. Find it here. ACFA has its strongest presence in the US East Coast, including New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. CAA, which uses ACFA standards, is limited to the PRC.
 *  : URL to a second American Cat Fanciers Association/Cat Aficionado Association breed standard. Use this when the ACFA/CAA has two separate breed standards for variants of the breed (e.g. American Bobtail Longhair and American Bobtail Shorthair), typically handled as two divisions in one breed standard in other registries
 *  : characters to link (e.g. "SH") from for  when   is also used; defaults to "1"
 *  : characters to link (e.g. "LH") from for ; defaults to "2"


 *  : URL to the Canadian Cat Association breed standard. Find it here.
 *  : URL to the Co-ordinating Cat Council of Australia breed standard. Find it here.
 *  : URL to the Cat Fanciers' Federation breed standard. Find it here.  This registry has its strongest presence in the US Northeast, especially Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio and Rhode Island.
 *  : URL to the (British) Governing Council of the Cat Fancy breed standard. Find it here (select the breed, then the "Standard of Points" link in the breed profile's sidebar menu).
 *  : URL to the (French) Livre Officiel des Origines Félines breed standard. Find it here (select breed from list, then click "Breed's Standard" button on the breed-profile page).
 *  : URL to the New Zealand Cat Fancy breed standard. Find it here. NZCF is more permissive than most registries, and is the first/only authority for several breeds, not all of them originating in NZ.
 *  : URL to the Southern Africa Cat Council breed standard. Find it here (you may have to page down an entire screenful).


 * Other parameters:
 *  : Free-form field for adding names or acronyms of other registries, .  An entry should be added as a typical external link with the registry acronym (or name, if short) as link title. Separate multiple entries with  for spacing.

This parameter should not be used to link to breed-specific clubs' standards unless they are at least national-level and they are unique standards with requirements missing from those of more general organizations. There are around 200 countries in the world, and we do not need a long list of redundant standards here. It should also not be used to link to sub-national groups of any kind (non-encyclopedic trivia).
 *  : Free-form comments, usually about the breed recognition or standards. Some example uses:
 * Recognition by organizations (private or governmental) that do not issue breed standards, e.g.: "Recognized by the ARBA."
 * Major registries that refuse to recognize a breed recognized by most others, e.g.: "Not recognized by [linked acronym of conservative registry here]."
 * Briefly mentioning classification issues, e.g.: "Classified as just a variant of the [other breed named and linked here] by [linked acronym of conservative registry here]."
 * Showing unusual status limitations, e.g.: "Not eligible for championship status in linked acronym of conservative registry here] shows."
 * For landraces and other non-breed populations, can indicate what they are, e.g.: "Landrace.", or "Feral cat population.", or "Crossbreed, with provisional recognition as a breed in one major registry."
 * This parameter is not for breed-specific or local/regional clubs.

There are two special parameters that can be used in place of those for links to breed standards: If a "notrecogni[s|z]ed" or "extinct" parameter is used, all URL fields should be removed. (A link to a breed recognition document should be added as a regular source citation in the article text about the breed history).
 * Special parameters:
 *  : Shows an "Extinct" message. This parameter should be removed if not used (and do not try ; it does not work).
 *   or  : Shows a "Not recognized as a standardized breed by any major registry." message. The y version outputs the British and Commonwealth English -ised spelling. This parameter (under either spelling) should be removed if not used. Also, if both are accidentally included, the -ised spelling will be used.

Another special parameter is for cross-species hybrids (not crossbreeds between two domestic breeds with no recent wild ancestor):
 *  : The value of the parameter is the wikilinked binomial (scientific name) – piped with Felis abbreviated as F. – of the non-domestic cat to which domestics have been bred to produce the hybrid. It will be italicized for you.  E.g., a value of " " outputs a result of "Hybrid cat,  Felis catus × F. chaus " at the bottom of the infobox, instead of "Domestic cat,  Felis catus ".  For an intergeneric hybrid, use the full name of the genus:.

Another special parameter is for non-breed types:
 *   (a.k.a. ): Indicates that the article subject is a landrace, crossbreed, mongrelized population, feral population, general type, domestic × wild hybrid, or other classification of cat that is not a standardized breed. This is usually also used with   (above), and should not be used with any parameters for breed standards, except when the article is about both a landrace and a breed (better done with two infoboxes in two sections), or a crossbreed gaining limited recognition as a standardized breed.  This parameter changes "breed" wording to 'variety", and may be used for other more sophisticated processing with later template development.

Registries not included
Various obscure, localized, or questionably appropriate (e.g. for-profit and promotional) registries do not have custom parameters; if really needed, their standards can be added with the  parameter, as documented above. Be suspicious of anything with a global- or national-sounding name that didn't exist 10 years ago, doesn't have a professionally designed website, and looks like a one-person operation, with no notability even in the specialist press. Search for things like "fake purebred cat registry" and read the warning posts. Beware being tricked into promoting a made-up "new breed" that the real world does not accept as legitimate. There is real money in this, thus an incentive for those trying to establish a breed to misuse Wikipedia as a form of advertising and legitimacy-establishment for "backyard breeder" experiments. There is a truly massive problem in dog breeding in the form of puppy mills and exploitative pseudo-organizations, and the problem is spreading to cat breeding. Remember that a breed standard is a primary source that must be used with caution, since the publisher is not independent of the subject and has a promotional, fiduciary interest in its breed standards being seen as authoritative.


 * American Rare Breeds Association (ARBA): Includes many experimental breeds (across various domesticated species, presently mostly dogs, and no cats yet) that may not be found in other registries yet, if ever. ARBA treats virtually any crossbreed as a legitimate "rare breed" if someone has bred it to itself and formed a club about it. They are not necessarily reliable on what is a breed or not, and may lack independence from the subject, not unlike one of the major horse "breed" encyclopedias that accepts iffy, promotional entries, and the for-profit CatZ registry (below). However, it is usable at least in the body of the article as a source that the claimed breed exists at all (i.e., is not a hoax or a WP:CRYSTAL matter).
 * Rare and Exotic Feline Registry (REFR) – Same story as with ARBA, basically, except they want there to be a wild (non-domestic) cat in the woodpile somewhere. Sometimes does not publish standards, other times has summary ones. If you say it's a breed, that there's a wild species in the mix somewhere in the bloodline, and send in your check and some pictures, they agree it's a breed, too.
 * CatZ (New Zealand) should not have their standards (listed here) added to breeds' articles (it won't be encyclopedically relevant in most cases, but trivia). However, in a few cases, it may help establish that new breeds actually exist and are recognized as breeds by at least one registry instead of having to flag the article with the   parameter or send it to WP:AFD. It is unlikely that CatZ can help establish notability.  It is not notable itself, and it fails WP:INDY, since it has strong ties to the breeders of the new cat varieties it is promoting as standardized.
 * No standards available: Some (even some well-established) pedigree registries may not produce breed standards, but rely on others for them, or may provide them only to paying members:
 * World Cat Congress (WCC) – This confederation of federations does not issue breed standards. However, it's "Breed Comparisons" pages are often good sources for a detail or two, and the organization does sometimes issue breed rules (permissible outcrosses, etc.) which may be adopted or deferred to by member federations (often including WCF).  It may also issue judging recommendations (non-binding) for disqualifications that might help preserve distinctive breed traits.
 * American Cat Association (ACA) – Breed standards not available online. If you want to cite a paper copy, use a full cite book template in the main article body.
 * United Feline Organization (UFO) – Breed standards (if any) not available online.
 * World Felinology Federation (WFF, serving Russia and the CIS) – Does not itself publish breed standards; it is simply a cross-federation pedigree service that accepts any breed recognized by others.
 * No-name and kitten-mill registries: Others that do not have a parameter are the following "no-name" pseudo-registries used by "kitten mills" (cat equivalent of puppy mills), and listed in various online warnings, including:
 * US Kitten & Cat Registry (USKCR, of Plainview, New York) – apparently affiliated with the bogus "Dog Registry of America" puppy mill.
 * The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) – They actually have a "commercial breeding farms" registration system, which can include large-scale kitten farms, said to be the source of the cats in most American pet stores. USDA does not establish breed standards, anyway.
 * "ICF" – This organization has not even been identified. One would guess that it means "[I...something] Cat Federation" (International? Italian? Iranian? Idaho?).
 * Obscure: Some others that are rarely if ever needed are:
 * the Bahrain Cat Club (BCC)
 * Cat Federation of Southern Africa (CFSA)
 * European Cat Fancy (ECF, partially functional website, seems to just be a breeder directory)
 * Norske Rasekattklubbers Riksförbund (NRR, Norway)
 * Selectional Feline Federation (SFF, Russia)
 * United Feline Organization (UFO, mostly western US counterpart to CFF, and uses TICA standards for at least some breeds)
 * Plus some Latin American ones.
 * The International Maew Boran Association (TIMBA); this is a new organization in Thailand, supposedly preserving variants of the Siamese/Thai cat mentioned in the old manuscript Tamra Maew. While this might be preservation of landraces, other information suggests what they're really doing is attempting to back-breed extinct varieties from extant stock. Regardless, they are not breeds in any encyclopedic sense, are mostly not notable as varieties, and the organization is not notable.
 * If any of those become bluelinks, maybe they should get a parameter in this template. One can be created anyway if you'll be adding information from that registry to quite a number of articles and are certain it is not bogus. However, some of these may turn out to be affiliates of one of the major organizations.
 * Redundant sub-clubs: There is no point adding standards parameters for the individual national and breed-specific clubs that form the major organizations and supply them with breed standards. Any stub article on such a club should usually be merged to the article on the parent organization, as they are usually non-notable. Examples include the Fédération Féline Française, Federazione Italiana Associazioni Feline, and Indonesian Cat Association (FIFe affiliates); Manx Breed Council, Cat Owners Association of Western Australia, Cincinnati Cat Club, etc. (local affiliates of national registries GCCF, ACF, and CFA, respectively). The WCF also has regional/national affiliates, such as the Australian Independent Cat Council (AICC).  Another WCF affiliate is Australian National Cats Inc. (ANCats, formerly Waratah National Cat Alliance or WNCA), but it also sometimes publishes its own standards for non-WCF breeds, and might be usable in the   parameter in such a case.
 * Independent breed-specific clubs: Occasional exceptions may exist to the point above, in the form of a national or international organization for a long-established breed, and preferred by many breeders and keepers over the big federations, perhaps because of disputes about the breed standards or recognition. (No examples are evident at this time for cats, though this situation is common in horse breeding, and not unknown in the dog fancy). These are not independent of the subject, so are primary sources to be used with caution, but can be added via the  parameter. These should not be confused with alleged organizations trying to establish new breeds, or with bogus registries serving "factory" breeding operations.
 * Missing national registries? There may be some national, unaffiliated registries of note that could be added, that are missing here because of lack of English-language material about them.

Testing changes
There is a development sandbox version of this template at Template:Infobox cat breed/sandbox, and several transclusions of it at Template:Infobox cat breed/testcases. Please copy the code from the current version of the template, paste it into the sandbox page, and test any changes on that copy before making them here: there are several special cases which are easily overlooked, and this template is easily "broken".