Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats
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In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
— "The Tyger" by William Blake
Welcome to WikiProject Cats, a wikiproject dedicated to improving to Wikipedia's articles relating to the family of mammals known as the Felidae and commonly referred to as "cats". Any editor can help contribute to this project by looking at the tasks listed here to find something in their interest or inquire on the talk page. Anyone seeking to join should add their name to the list of active participants.
Purpose
[edit]Goals
[edit]- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of cats by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
- To serve as the central point of cat-related article discussion.
- To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles about cats.
Scope
[edit]This project deals with the creation and editing of articles related to cats, both wild species and domestic breeds. We shall also include within the scope of this project those articles which have a direct and significant impact upon all members of the family Felidae, including such things as feline diseases and welfare. This scope excludes fictional cat or cat-like characters that appear in literature, art, movies, comics, television, video games, or other media.
Parent project
[edit]Departments
[edit]- The Assessment department monitors the quality of articles and indicates the relative importance of articles to this project. It is very useful in determining which articles are most in need of further attention and which are not.
- The Peer review is where editors can put cat-related articles up for a local peer review, which provides scrutiny and suggestions for the further improvement of the article.
- The Recognized content showcases Featured or Good articles, topics, and pictures, as well as a list of DYKs.
- The Collaboration has been inactive since August 2010. It was established to nominate an article for improvement each month.
- Maintain Portal:Cats
Activity
[edit]If you do happen to have some free time on your hands, we would greatly appreciate if you can improve any of the articles which haven't yet reached good article status. In almost all cases on Wikipedia, particularly articles which are less than good article status, we can always use additional references and reference citations for any information in any articles.
Hot Articles
[edit]The articles listed below are WikiProject Cats articles that have had the most edits in the past 3 days. These pages might be undergoing significant changes or may need to be monitored for vandalism or edit wars.
| 11 edits | Springfield pet-eating hoax |
| 9 edits | Panthera fossilis |
| 8 edits | United States presidential pets |
| 7 edits | Asiatic lion |
| 7 edits | Panthera spelaea |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 24 December 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts
[edit]Articles for deletion
- 19 Dec 2024 – Brünnhilde (cat) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ermenrich (t · c); see discussion (10 participants)
Requests for comments
- 13 Dec 2024 – Catnip (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Escape Orbit (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 20 Nov 2024 – Draft:Give Them Ten Movement (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Deidrel.evans (t · c)
- 14 Nov 2024 – Draft:Wila Krungthep (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SafariScribe (t · c)
- 13 Nov 2024 – Draft:American Ringtail (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2600:1700:3828:7140:988A:ECC0:7FD:21FF (t · c)
Recent changes
[edit]List of abbreviations (help):
- D
- Edit made at Wikidata
- r
- Edit flagged by ORES
- N
- New page
- m
- Minor edit
- b
- Bot edit
- (±123)
- Page byte size change
24 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:Pussy 08:44 −570 Gnomingstuff talk contribs (rv test edits)
23 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah reintroduction in India 21:44 −224 Gnomingstuff talk contribs (rv test edti)
- diffhist m Talk:Bombay cat 18:09 −134 Belbury talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 75.103.128.132 (talk) to last revision by Mdefatta2) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Bombay cat 17:59 +134 75.103.128.132 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Turkish Angora 17:53 +193 206.85.204.190 talk (→They are really cute: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Tigers in India 07:26 −240 Gnomingstuff talk contribs (rv test edit) Tag: Manual revert
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 05:55 +127 WhatamIdoing talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Pet 00:50 −208 Gnomingstuff talk contribs (rv 2022 test edit)
22 December 2024
- diffhist m Talk:Geoffroy's cat 19:26 −174 UtherSRG talk contribs (Reverted edit by 46.40.199.186 (talk) to last version by Cewbot) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist Talk:Geoffroy's cat 18:58 +174 46.40.199.186 talk (→كم طول القصة: new section) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Puma pardoides 18:27 0 Ktkvtsh talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 12:53 +39 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: link)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 12:38 +522 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: agree with suggested wording)
21 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:European wildcat 17:08 −1,430 TwoSheds88 talk contribs (remove →Conservation Projects in Scotland: as previous 9 year old messages out of date and irrelevant now)
20 December 2024
- diffhist m Talk:Pantherinae 22:18 0 UtherSRG talk contribs (→The header block needs a better picture (or photos): typo)
- diffhist Talk:Pantherinae 22:17 +142 UtherSRG talk contribs (→The header block needs a better picture (or photos): Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Pantherinae 20:55 +433 Octaazacubane talk contribs (→The header block needs a better picture (or photos): new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 12:11 +337 Boynamedsue talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 02:51 +242 Wizmut talk contribs (add archive bot)
- diffhist Talk:Taigan (safari park) 00:59 +33 Mika1h talk contribs (start, banners)
19 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:The Owl and the Pussy-Cat 13:41 +113 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, +Cats (Low), +Birds (Low), +England (Low) (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Foss (cat) 13:37 +42 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, +England (Low) (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Exotic Shorthair 08:31 −160 Traumnovelle talk contribs (Undid revision 1263900986 by 151.226.206.119 (talk)) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Talk:Exotic Shorthair 07:51 +160 151.226.206.119 talk (→Bitcoin: new section) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Brünnhilde (cat) 02:20 +13 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Photography (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Gresham cat hostage taking incident 01:18 +145 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Cats, +Crime and Criminal Biography, +Law Enforcement (Rater))
- diffhist N Talk:Brünnhilde (cat) 01:13 +281 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Assessment (Low): +banner shell (Start), +Cats, +Photography, +Library of Congress, +Marketing & Advertising, +New York City (Rater))
18 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat anatomy 22:41 +266 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→Vandalism.: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat anatomy 19:55 +400 67.174.239.209 talk (→Vandalism.: new section)
To Do
[edit]Articles needing attention
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Participants can look at the Category:Cats articles needing attention page that indicates the deficiencies in articles that can be improved. Articles with one or more templates questioning the content on the article page itself are placed in the category by adding |attention=yes to the project banner on the talk page.
Stubs
[edit]Stub cat articles that would benefit from improvement can be found here:
Requested articles
[edit]Several red links exist in some cat related articles, and there are also several other pages which have been requested to be created. They can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Requested articles.
Most popular articles
[edit]An automatically generated list of the most visited articles is generated here on a monthly basis: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Popular pages.
All Articles
[edit]Category:WikiProject Cats articles plus Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Articles
Recommended article layout
[edit]There currently exists an article entitled List of cat breeds, which enumerates the various recognized breeds. Breed articles that already exist and are labeled with Category:Cat breeds appear on that category page, as well.
Title: The article for each breed is titled based on the apparently most-common official breed name, in English-language sources, such as the major registries. This namme is also used in the List of cat breeds. Where the major registries are evenly split on the name, or where the breed is not recognized by the major registries, the article title is be chosen using the most commonly used name in other English-language sources.
Redirects: When creating a new page, redirects or disambiguations under other possible names should be created to point to the page.
The article on each breed should include the following information, generally in this order:
- Lead section: summary of general information about the breed, brief history, brief description.
- History
- Characteristics
- Appearance
- Build and proportions, height and weight ranges
- Ears, tail, muzzle, etc.
- Coat types and colors
- Subcategories of the breed
- Behavio[u]r (optional and requires excellent sourcing, independent of the breed and its breeders – not registries, breeder-written magazine articles, self-published blogs and forums, etc.)
- Appearance
- Health, possibly including:
- Life expectancy
- Common medical issues (optional and requires excellent sourcing per WP:MEDRS – veterinary works, leading cat-care handbooks; not blogs, advice columns, or other primary sources.)
- Legal and regulatory matters (optional, as required)
- See also (optional)
- References
- External links (optional): Links to web sites that expand on the encyclopedic info provided by wikipedia. Generally excluded are local breed clubs (too many hundreds to try to maintain the links), commercial sites (where the ads or intent to sell something are blatant), forums and blogs (not particularly encyclopedic).
Galleries and "In popular culture" sections are discouraged per wider Wikipedia guidelines.
