Editing Encyclopedia:WikiProject Dogs/Dog breeds task force/General (section)

==Subdividing dog groups==
What I'm realizing as I work on various breeds and groups of dogs is that we can't really rely on a specific small set of categories--we have to anticipate what people will be looking for and create the appropriate dog-category, redirect, or disambig pages all the way through.  

For example, [[Hunting dog]] is a general category of dogs, which can be divided into [[Hound]]s and [[Gun dog]]s (for example), and people will (and already have) made references to all those terms in text. Furthermore, people will also refer to [[Sight hound]]s and [[Scent hound]]s among hounds (which are category pages that describe the general characteristics of this group and then list the individual breeds that are members of the group, and [[Spaniel]]s, [[Retriever]]s, etc. .... and then at almost the bottom level we'll have something more like disambig pages, such as [[Welsh Corgi]], [[Springer Spaniel]], [[Cocker Spaniel]]...   

So I'm doing the best I can as I go, using the various organizations' categories as starting points.   [[User:Elf|Elf]] 16:01, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)

BTW, hierarchical organization of some of these pages might look something like this:
*[[Hunting dog]]
**[[Hound]]
***[[Scent hound]]
****[[Foxhound]] (disambig)
*****[[American Foxhound]]
*****[[English Foxhound]]
***[[Sight hound]]
**[[Gun dog]]

::This is good work Elf.  I think you are dealing with this in the right way.  -- [[User:Sannse|sannse]] [[User talk:Sannse|(talk)]] 18:02, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)