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During some recent contributions to the Tervuren dog page it has occurred to me that perhaps all four Belgian Shepherd varieties/breeds should me merged back into this page. The reasons for thinking this are:
I think it would be possible to turn this page into a well constructed B-class or higher page that is highly informative if they were merged here, whilst currently five start class articles exist (in spite of what the TPs may claim).
I am keen to gauge thoughts prior to potentially formally proposing a merger. Cavalryman (talk) 04:35, 30 September 2020 (UTC).
@Cavalryman: I'm not sure why you used an edit-summary of "removed citation, link broken" in this edit [3]. [1]
The source is available in the Wayback Machine [4], including the PDF file mentioned at the bottom of the page [5].
If you search the current Kennel Club website for "purebred dog health survey results" you can find the current URL for the same source (websites often reorganize their page URLs over time). Here is the link for the 2004 survey [6] (which is the version in the original citation).[2]
There was a newer survey done in 2014, shown at this link [7].[3]
— Normal Op (talk) 16:23, 5 October 2020 (UTC)
Page not foundin large letters then below that
We can't seem to find the page you are looking for, the page may have been removed or you could have typed the url incorrectly, which to me says the link is broken. Cavalryman (talk) 21:40, 5 October 2020 (UTC).
Warning: The results of this survey and particularly the breed-specific analyses should be interpreted with caution. The overall response rate was only 24% with breed-specific response rates from 4.5% to 64.7%. While we had hoped to achieve an overall response rate of at least 40% we have, due to the high level of interest expressed, agreed to produce breed-specific summary reports for those breeds where the individual breed response rate was greater than or equal to 15%.The 2014 study includes a less strongly worded warning. I don’t feel that is good enough for inclusion in an article. Cavalryman (talk) 10:14, 6 October 2020 (UTC).
References
I propose to merge the four articles on the four breed varieties (Groenendael dog, Laekenois dog, Malinois dog and Tervuren dog) into this page. The majority of the world's kennel clubs, including the Belgian Société Royale Saint-Hubert and the Fédération Cynologique Internationale, classify it as a single breed with four varieties separated by coat type, the one notable exception is the AKC. The breed has a shared history and shared characteristics, including a shared breed standard ([8]) which discusses the different coat varieties, in much of the world discretionary interbreeding of varieties is also permitted. The majority of sources on the breed treat them as one with four varieties whilst the those that don't acknowledge their shared heritage and similarities. Cavalryman (talk) 22:40, 4 November 2020 (UTC).
William Harris, if you have changed your mind about the Malinois I think it could be incorporated quite easily. Kind regards, Cavalryman (talk) 04:14, 24 November 2020 (UTC).
I’m curious as the weather the tummy of a Belgian Malanoy is supposed to turn black or not as she gets older, when she’s fawn in color 75.89.250.3 (talk) 00:19, 1 February 2022 (UTC)