Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Domestic pigeon task force

This task force covers anything related to the care and breeding of domesticated pigeons. The following types of articles fall within the scope of this task force's mission:

• breeds of domesticated pigeons
• racing pigeons and other aerial competitions (e. g. thieving competitions)
• important books related to raising domesticated pigeons
• magazines (past and present) associated with pigeon keeping
• biographies of important people in the history of the keeping of domesticated pigeons
• aspects of genetics specific to domesticated pigeons
  • documentation of what is known regarding mutants found only in domesticated pigeons
• history of domesticated pigeons and mankind's relationship with the pigeon.

Articles regarding doves, other species of pigeons, and other columbiformes are outside of the scope of this task force. This is because the scope of domestic pigeons is already substantial without adding the subject of doves and other species of pigeons.

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• Tag related articles.
• Find editors who have shown interest in this subject and ask them to take a look here.
• Suggestions for articles to be created (add your suggestions for articles to be created here and remove articles as they are stubbed in)
  • There are many pigeon stubs to be found on the list in the article Dickin Medal.
  • William H. Pensom
  • Wendell M. Levi
  • Willard Hollander
  • United States National Pigeon Association
  • American Racing Pigeon Union
  • American Pigeon Journal (Magazine)
  • The Pigeon (Book)
  • Encyclopedia of Pigeon Breeds (Book)
  • List of famous pigeon fanciers
  • Hundreds of articles for pigeon breeds
  • Extinct pigeon breeds (e. g. The Finnikin)
  • Genetics of domesticated pigeons
  • Feather ornaments found in domesticated pigeons
• Identify articles for improvement
  • Find a stub article to expand. Consider the following stubs that need expansion (not an exhaustive list)
    • King (pigeon)
    • Tumbler (pigeon) and articles linked from it.
    • Old Dutch Capuchine
• Review importance and quality of existing articles

Until such time as this task force is upgraded to a stand alone WikiProject, any articles that are within the scope of this task force should be tagged with the project banner of WikiProject Birds. i.e. use {{BirdTalk}} template on talk page.

By convention, category notation goes at the end of the article before interlanguage links:

• Category:Domestic pigeons. All articles that refer to domesticated pigeons apart from specific breed articles.
• Category:Pigeon breeds. All pigeon breed articles about a specific breed should be labeled with this.
• Category:Domesticated pigeon breed stubs. All pigeon breed articles still deemed to be at the stub stage.

For main project templates, see the main project page for WikiProject Birds.

Participants can add the following userbox to their user page which will add them to the Domesticated pigeons task force category.

This user is a member of the domestic pigeon task force

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Birds/Outreach/User Domesticated pigeons task force}}

We now have one we can use here: {{Infobox pigeon breed}}

• For pigeon breed related stubs add {{Pigeon-breed-stub}} at bottom of article which gives:

This Pigeon breed–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

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• Levi, Wendell (1977). The Pigeon. Sumter, S.C.: Levi Publishing Co, Inc. ISBN 0853900132.
• McClary, Douglas (1999). Pigeons for Everyone. Great Britain: Winckley Press. ISBN 0907769284.
• Hiatt and Esposito, DVM, Shannon and Dr. Jon (2000). The Pigeon Guide. Silvio Mattacchione & Company. ISBN 1895270189.
• Vriends and Erskine, Matthew M and Tommy (2005). Pigeons. Barron's. ISBN 0764129910.

• Walker, Dr. Colin (2000). The Flying Vet's Pigeon Health & Management. Knox Veterinary Clinic. ISBN 1876677910.
• Marx, Dr. David (1997). A Veterinary Approach to Pigeon Health. Lake Charles, LA: Racing Pigeon Digest Publications. OCLC 41852125.

• Hansell, Jean (1998). The Pigeon in History. Bath, UK: Millstream Books. ISBN 0948975504.

• Australian Racing Pigeon Journal [1]

• Purebred Pigeon magazine[2]
• Racing Pigeon Digest[3]

• Aviculture Europe [4]
• British Homing World

 

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