Talk:Texel guinea pig

To keep or to merge?

I'm not really sure if there is enough information that specifically pertains to this breed, apart from all others, that merits having an article. The only unique info to the breed here is its date of recognition and where it came from. These can easily be merged into the main Guinea pig breed article, and we could even possibly create a larger subsection for the major breeds (I've just started an expansion of the article anyway). Any thoughts? VanTucky ^Talk 17:55, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking the same thing after I spent the last few hours researching the breed. Anything important about the breed which I found is in the article but it doesn't seem to be enough for it's own article. A merge might be the best choice but I think we should bring this to the attention of the original editor of this article first. AngelOfSadness talk 18:00, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I've notified the author.

Though I'm rather personally fond of the idea of having a cavy project to expand some breed articles, to be honest most books only spend a paragraph or two on each breed, and nearly none of the 800 or so Google hits could be used as sources. There just plain isn't enough source material. VanTucky ^Talk 18:01, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I think the lack of information/reliable sources would qualify for a merge rather than an article on each cavy. There is about seven other articles about individual guinea pig breeds besides this one and they each have similar problems to this article. Although the idea of the cavy project is really nice, I don't think there is a sufficient amount of information for each breed to have their own article. AngelOfSadness talk 18:09, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

There are other breed articles? What ones? VanTucky ^Talk 18:11, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

They are all listed in Category:Guinea_pigs. Now the article on Skinny pig has a lot of information but it lacks sources. And by the looks of it most of the other articles are species of Guinea Pigs but a lot of them are stub-class with not much information or sources. AngelOfSadness talk 18:16, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, those. Most of those are actually separate species. This one and skinny pigs are the only breeds of domestic cavy with articles. VanTucky ^Talk 18:22, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Ahh I see. Sorry I got a bit confused there for a second. As you can see I don't know much about guinea pig breeds or species. Anyway, what will we do with these two articles? A merge seems like the best choice for this article but I'm unsure about what to do with the skinny pigs article. AngelOfSadness talk 18:27, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I would say that we should keep the skinny pigs article. I just now cleaned it up and re-included a reflist. An IP had removed the formatting so the footnotes didn't show up. There really is enough unique info on skinnies to keep it, and there is a precedent with such articles as Nude mice. But let's merge this. VanTucky ^Talk 18:29, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

I was wondering how there was so much infomation but no sources, glad to know it was just a technical error. The merge for this article sounds good. AngelOfSadness talk 18:34, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

Hi, I made the article.

I think that adding more unique information on each guinea pig breed is a brilliant idea! ^_^
I thought that there were more in-depth articles on the guinea pig breeds? Maybe you can use some of the judging rubrics from Standard of Perfection? If you were to merge, and still make the seperate, more in-depth articles on other breeds, maybe you could use the info and my pictures? I have some good pictures of different breeds that I took myself.
Thank you! Fluffyetta (October 14, 2007 8:45 PM)

But the problem really was with the sources of the content. Most results on google(after typing in guinea pig breeds) can't be used. Remember it's better to have a short article with everything sourced than a long article that is completely unreferenced. True there are books which have some info on various guinea pig breeds but like VanTucky had said(in the above discussion), a lot of them only have one or two paragraphs on each breed which isn't really enough for an article. But we could use the pics and info(which hopefully can be sourced) in the Guinea pig breed article (this article was merged into that article) and we're thinking of expanding each of the subsections of each breed that doesn't have enough information for their own article. The only guinea pig breed that has enough info and sources for it's own article is the Skinny pig article and so this will be left as it is. AngelOfSadness talk 21:45, 15 October 2007 (UTC)