Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Agriculture/Infobox

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This will be the coordination area for breedboxes/breed infoboxes/livestock boxes, or whatever you want to call them. Everyone is free of course to take the code somewhere else to work on in a sandbox and come back with and idea, but this will be the centralized place to discuss it. On this page you will find the code from the horse breeds infobox (copied over a month ago, so it is remotely possible that it has changed). I think the ideal would be a single template that could be used for any species, but if the code for that is too complex then separate boxes for each species may be necessary. This needs to be able to be used for poultry as well as hooved stock. --Doug.(talk • contribs) 03:50, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Subspecies vs Cultivar vs Breed

See Sri Lankan Elephant for a subspecies sort of used in agriculture (the article also has a sub-species box). Edge cases make for interesting analysis. WAS 4.250 05:07, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Conservancy Status

It would seem at least as important as listing all the various national breed registries and standards to also list the status under the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy and the Rare Breeds Survival Trust, in the same way that taxoboxes show conservation status of taxa. The former has 5 categories (Critical, Threatened, Watch, Recovering, Study) and applies to seven species of mammals (asses, cattle, goats, horses, pigs, rabbits, and sheep), as well as four species of poultry (chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys) (the ALBC distinguishes poultry from livestock) See ALBC; the latter has 6 categories (1. Critical, 2. Endangered, 3. Vulnerable, 4. At Risk, 5. Minority, 6. Mainstream) and applies to Cattle, Pigs, Sheep, Goats, Equines, and Poultry (by which the RBST seems to mean "Chickens" as no other species are listed, the RBST does not use the term "Livestock") See RBST. The RBST page referenced also has a good definition of "breed" which we may want to compare to some of the others in use. Some breeds will only have a classification under one of these two systems, either because they don't exist on both sides of the Atlantic, they are only rare on one side of the Atlantic, or they are of a species only covered by one system (rabbits, ducks, geese, and turkeys are only represented in the ALBC).--Doug.(talk • contribs) 18:55, 12 November 2007 (UTC)