Editing Incubator escapee wiki:WikiProject Dogs/Dog breeds task force/General (section)

==Quill's problem==
Okay, hot shots--not ignoring you--I didn't have this page on my watchlist, so was blissfully drifting along until Elf's note on another page, which ''was'' on my watchlist.

Here's my deal--it may only be my problem, so feel free to say so.  I cannot find things.  I can't remember where articles are, can't remember where our various lists are; I have to go to a page where I know I can find list of dog breeds, and access it from there, then futz around through whatever categories are listed, to find the group or topic or whatever I'm looking for.

Case in point--because I'd worked on the TO DO page; I needed to update [[Spitz]] and List of Dogs by country of origin.  It would have been  lovely if we had a category: Spitz (maybe we do?) but of course I would have still have to have manually added the breed into the Spitz article.  Not a prob, but then there was the other list--where was it?  Took me ages.

Is it possible for us to build one page with every dog list, topic and category and their subcategories on it?  That is, we've got all this info on different pages, can we combine it into one?  I'm quite willing to help but don't know where to start.

Now to the case at hand, I've got to run, I solemnly promise to return and read all the new additions to this page and respond as soon as ever I can.

[[User:Quill|Quill]] 00:07, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

:You just need a new brain with photographic memory (4096 GB preferably).  OK, I'll confess that it sometimes take me a while to dig through stuff, too. I  have a well-oranized set of bookmarks in my browser, otherwise I'd never get to where I needed to be (oh, and I have memorized "List of dog breeds" and I can get to a lot of places from there; also by clicking the category at the bottom of any article and then going up or down in categories...).  

:Sannse's newly revealed page that lists all dog pages (well--actually not even close--but an afternoon spent adding all the pages in all of the dog-related categories to her list would fix that--) is about as good as  you're going to get, I think.  Although I don't know that it has the various Wikipedia internal pages (like the dog project pgs) on it.

:BTW, everyone not having all the pgs on their watchlists is exactly why I put a  note at the top level project talk page.  But now you should rush right out and add all of the dog project subpages to  your watchlist.  Soon you'll be just like me, with "1313 pages on your watchlist (not counting talk pages)". :-) [[User:Elf|Elf]] | [[User talk:Elf|Talk]] 00:24, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

::Yep, my page has a lot missing still (although it does list the wikiproject pages) I basically added all the dog related pages I was taking off my main watchlist.  Having several, subject specific, public watchlists has turned out to be a lot more easy to handle that the massive, mixed one I had before.  But, if it's going to be of use to others too, then feel free to add any pages that should be there -- [[User:Sannse|sannse]] [[User talk:Sannse|(talk)]] 12:15, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)

::Myself, I use the following links to keep a watch on the dog project:
::*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User:Elf/watchlistdogrelated]  Elf
::*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User:Elf/watchlistbreeds]  Elf
::*[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User%3ASannse%2Fdog_watch] Sannse
::I have them bookmarked and just go 1,2,3,4 (where four is my own personal watchlist) - maybe i'm strange, but should we come up with an official dogproject watchlist?  - [[User:Trysha|Trysha]] <sup>([[User_talk:Trysha|talk]])</sup> 19:23, 25 January 2006 (UTC)