User:SilverTiger12
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I am SilverTiger, an editor whose special interest on Wikipedia is felids specifically. I work in an offshore industry, so if I suddenly disappear its because I'm at work (a hundred or so miles out on the ocean with little time to edit). I also struggle with ADHD and mild depression, which effects my editing as well. Besides all things cats, I am generally interested in paleontology and zoology (and like to read about mythology/folklore).
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Barnstars & Miscellany
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The Original Barnstar |
| Sivasmilus is a very good article. Well done! BoyTheKingCanDance (talk) 03:33, 19 May 2023 (UTC) |
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The Writer's Barnstar |
| for your creation of Yule cat, a fascinating article! Eddie891 Talk Work 00:26, 22 December 2023 (UTC) |
On 27 July 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Leopardus narinensis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the newly discovered red tigrina may already be extinct? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Leopardus narinensis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Leopardus narinensis), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hook update | |
| Your hook reached 18,788 views (782.8 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of July 2023 – nice work! |
On 8 October 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pachypanthera, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the early big cat Pachypanthera may have weighed as much as 142 kilograms (313 lb) and had teeth similar to a hyena's? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pachypanthera. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Pachypanthera), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 6 November 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sivapardus, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Sivapardus was larger than a leopard, smaller than a lion, and had a face like a cheetah? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sivapardus. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Sivapardus), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 28 November 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Felis wenzensis, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that an ancient wildcat species is known only from a part of the jaw of a single animal discovered in Poland? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Felis wenzensis. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Felis wenzensis), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
On 25 December 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Yule cat, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that in Icelandic folklore, the Yule cat eats people who do not receive new clothing for Christmas? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Yule cat. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Yule cat), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.
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Hook update | |
| Your hook reached 14,803 views (616.8 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of December 2023 – nice work! |
Reviews
[edit]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.
- Good Articles reviewed
Lantian man • Imperobator • Trinisaura • Panthera onca mesembrina • Titanoboa • 
Klallamornis • Carcharodontosaurus • Hudson Mountains • Placidium arboreum • Island bronze-naped pigeon • Snowy plover • Xiphodon
- Featured Lists 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 Articles reviewed
Beaver • Solo Man • Red panda • Coccinellidae • Titanis • Ohmdenosaurus • Mimodactylus • Polar bear • Sun in fiction • Hypericum sechmenii • Philosophy • Nyctibatrachus major • The Firebird
Random Taxonomy
[edit]Felids
[edit]- User:SilverTiger12/sandbox3 - article incubation
- User:SilverTiger12/sandbox4 - template incubation
- User:SilverTiger12/sandbox5 - histories
- User:SilverTiger12/Cladograms
- 55.6% Start-Class
- 44.4% C-Class
In a weird position: 
Sivasmilus
- 20% Start-Class
- 80% C-Class
- 14.3% Start-Class
- 21.4% B-Class
- 64.3% remaining
- 11.5% Stub-Class
- 53.8% Start-Class
- 11.5% C-Class
- 19.2% B-Class
- 3.8% FA-Class
- 14.3% Stub-Class
- 20% Start-Class
- 28.6% C-Class
- 17.1% B-Class
- 11.4% GA-Class
- 8.6% FA-Class
- 5.6% Stub-Class
- 22.2% Start-Class
- 22.2% C-Class
- 33.3% B-Class
- 5.6% FA-Class
- 11.1% remaining
- 7.7% Start-Class
- 38.5% C-Class
- 38.5% B-Class
- 7.7% GA-Class
- 7.7% remaining
Extant feline genera
[edit]Excluding extinct genera but (mostly) including extinct species.
- 14.3% Stub-Class
- 14.3% B-Class
- 28.6% GA-Class
- 42.9% remaining
- 12.5% Stub-Class
- 18.8% Start-Class
- 37.5% C-Class
- 6.3% B-Class
- 6.3% GA-Class
- 18.8% remaining
Leopardus (Ocelot lineage)
Andean mountain cat L. jacobita- Geoffroy's cat L. geoffroyi
- Kodkod L. guigna
- Margay L. wiedii
- Ocelot L. pardalis
- Pampas cat L. colocola
Pantanal cat L. braccatus
Leopardus garleppi
Leopardus fasciatus- Leopardus pajeros
- 20% Stub-Class
- 20% Start-Class
- 20% C-Class
- 40% B-Class
- 33.3% Stub-Class
- 20% Start-Class
- 26.7% C-Class
- 6.7% B-Class
- 13.3% FA-Class
Bobcat L. rufus
- Lynx rufus rufus
- Lynx rufus fasciatus
- Mexican bobcat L. r. escuinapae
- Canada lynx L. canadensis
Iberian lynx L. pardinus
- Eurasian lynx L. lynx
- Balkan lynx L. l. balcanicus
- Carpathian lynx L. l. carpathicus
- Caucasian lynx L. l. dinniki
- Northern lynx L. l. lynx
- Siberian lynx L. l. wrangeli
- Turkestan lynx L. l. isabellinus
- 33.3% Stub-Class
- 26.7% Start-Class
- 6.7% C-Class
- 6.7% B-Class
- 13.3% GA-Class
- 6.7% FA-Class
- 6.7% remaining
- 25% C-Class
- 62.5% B-Class
- 12.5% GA-Class
- 21.4% Start-Class
- 21.4% C-Class
- 14.3% B-Class
- 28.6% GA-Class
- 14.3% remaining
Felis (House cat lineage)
- 2.1% Stub-Class
- 6.3% Start-Class
- 20.8% C-Class
- 20.8% B-Class
- 27.1% GA-Class
- 14.6% FA-Class
- 8.3% remaining
Possible in the future: Corsican wildcat
See also: Sardinian wildcat, Cretan wildcat.
Projects, Goals, and Proposals
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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.
- Main article: Felid hybrid
- 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
- Tigers:
Bits and bobs
[edit]A list of, "if only I could write"'s....
- Ray cat
- Cats in art:
- 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)
- Leo Minor
- Lynx (constellation)
- Leo Palatinus - obsolete constellation. Very obscure.
- Felis (constellation) - obsolete constellation
