Talk:Domestication of the cat

Peer Review

The subject of your article is very interesting, I have never thought about the origin of domesticated cats and how extensive it dates back. I recommend adding titles for each section to help provide direction for the reader prior to diving into the section. I recommend revising some of your sentences to help improve flow, and I noticed your subject and verb tense is not consistent. You need to maintain the same tense through each sentence as well as through each section. This will make it easier to read and greatly improve the overall flow of the article. For your citations you can utilize wikipedia's program that manually cites an article for you and formats it. Also, try to relate to the articles you are using when referencing a specific study.

Domestication doubts

I found this article from a few years ago comparing studies about whether cats have been fully domesticated: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/are-cats-domesticated (October 23, 2015) Mapsax (talk) 01:06, 24 July 2021 (UTC)

"History of cats" listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect History of cats and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 6#History of cats until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Jay (talk) 07:56, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 27 February 2022

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: procedural close. See Talk:Origin_of_the_domestic_dog#Requested_move_24_March_2022. – Joe (talk) 07:56, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

---

Evolution of the domesticated cat → Domestication of catsDomestication of cats – This title makes more sense, as similar articles (domestication of the horse, domestication of the dog, domestication of the Syrian hamster, etc.) are titled this way. An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 18:15, 27 February 2022 (UTC) --An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 18:15, 27 February 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 19:23, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

• Comment Looks like "domestication of the dog" is a redirect to Origin of the domestic dog. There is also Evolution of domestic goats and History of the domestic sheep. I'm not sure commonality applies here. See also Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 15#History of cats. PaleAqua (talk) 18:53, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
  • Fair enough. Despite this, I still stand by my original suggestion, and think moving the others might be best as well. It's less wordy and it's more clear as to what the article is actually about. --An anonymous username, not my real name (talk) 19:13, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Cats has been notified of this discussion. 🐶 EpicPupper ^{(he/him | talk)} 19:24, 6 March 2022 (UTC)

• I've bundled this into a proposal to make all these articles consistent at Talk:Origin_of_the_domestic_dog#Requested_move_24_March_2022, so procedurally closing this. – Joe (talk) 07:56, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Origin of the domestic dog which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 11:02, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Science Writing

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 30 January 2024 and 10 May 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Harrincm9637 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Turuneam8321.

— Assignment last updated by Turuneam8321 (talk) 15:02, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Principles of Ecology

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 29 August 2024 and 12 December 2024. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Pabuappa13 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by Pabuappa13 (talk) 17:09, 7 October 2024 (UTC)

Grammatical Error

The part that says “ scientists have found it difficult to identify exactly which region gave rise to modern domestic cat believed that it was not just one incident that led to” seems to contain poor grammar, but maybe I’m just not reading it correctly. 24.7.63.20 (talk) 16:41, 2 November 2025 (UTC)

Requested move 2 June 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Danski454 (talk) 20:42, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

---

Domestication of the cat → Domestication of catsDomestication of cats – Hello, this page could not be moved because the redirect has two revisions. The reason for the change is that the article in question reflects the domestication of more than one cat species/population throughout history. nahle.ghini (talk) 07:54, 2 June 2026 (UTC) This is a contested technical request (permalink). 1isall (talk | contribs) 13:38, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

• Looks like every "domestication of x" article I can see has format of "the cat" instead of "cats", or "the dog" instead of "dogs" and so on. It makes sense to me. Wamalotpark (talk) 10:10, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

  Tough the horse/dog article names are worded that way, if you skim through the cat article, there are multiple Felis species mentionned, all of which are commonly called "cat", with more than one having undergone domestication in some form. Whereas for example in dogs it's simpler: gray wolf→dog, with only the domestic dogs being commonly called "the dog". nahle.ghini (talk) 10:34, 2 June 2026 (UTC)

Oppose 'the cat' is the proper terminology for referring to the species. Traumnovelle (talk) 05:17, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

Yes, but the point above was that the current article covers multiple cat species. nahle.ghini (talk) 05:42, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

The article covers the domestic cat, which was domesticated from the African wildcat. There is a single section dedicated to a failed domestication attempt of the leopard cat. Traumnovelle (talk) 05:52, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

The domesticaton of the African wildcat, then further domesticaton of the domestic cat, and the failed domestication of the Leopard cat, and the European wildcat of which some may have been partially domesticated which would explain why they contributed some ancestry to the dom. cat.

To me that seems like enough domestication of enough cats to have "cats" in the name, altough I thought this would be a minor change, since someone is strongly opposed I will withdraw the move thing. Once I figure out how. nahle.ghini (talk) 06:09, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

We also have domestication of the dog despite the domestic dog and wolf being distinct. The leopard cat thing is more of just providing information on a similar example, but I don't think it changes the overall scope of the article, as it isn't mentioned in the lead. European wildcat hybridisation is just that, we also have the Bengal cat for example.

You don't have to withdraw it, this is a formal requested move now so we can later other editors weigh in. Traumnovelle (talk) 06:14, 3 June 2026 (UTC)

• Oppose, the current title is encyclopedic language. Felinaex ^{(purr / pawprints)} 22:48, 4 June 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose'" There is no issue with current title. Wisher08 (talk) 09:49, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.