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.
21 edits | United States presidential pets |
15 edits | Tsavo Man-Eaters |
8 edits | Feline infectious peritonitis |
6 edits | Larry (cat) |
5 edits | Allergy to cats |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 26 August 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts
[edit]Featured list candidates
- 25 Aug 2024 – United States presidential pets (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Di (they-them) (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 05 Apr 2024 – Fishing cat (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Wolverine XI (t · c); start discussion
Requests for comments
Articles for creation
- 17 Jul 2024 – Draft:Rheology of cats (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ReyP02 (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
27 August 2024
- diffhist Talk:Barry Green (hunter) 03:28 +5 Di (they-them) talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Barry Green (hunter) 02:44 +76 Di (they-them) talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Barry Green (hunter) 01:53 +88 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Nominated for DYK, see Template:Did you know nominations/Barry Green (hunter) (DYK-wizard))
- diffhist Talk:Barry Green (hunter) 00:26 0 Di (they-them) talk contribs
26 August 2024
- diffhist Talk:Barry Green (hunter) 23:47 +61 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Cats, Australia, Environment, Biography (Rater))
- Move log 23:47 Di (they-them) talk contribs moved page Draft talk:Barry Green (hunter) to Talk:Barry Green (hunter) (Move to mainspace)
- diffhist N Draft talk:Barry Green (hunter) 23:23 +167 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Assessment: +banner shell, +Cats, +Australia, +Environment, +Biography (Rater))
- diffhist N Draft talk:Mr. Snips 20:42 +20 Daytuna123456789 talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist Talk:Jackson Galaxy 13:20 +169 76.244.32.79 talk (→Separation anxiety for cats: new section) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
25 August 2024
- diffhist Talk:United States presidential pets 23:36 +70 Di (they-them) talk contribs
24 August 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat meat 10:19 +1,617 Bricology talk contribs (→Why is Japan included?: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:United States presidential pets 03:34 +50 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Politics, +U.S. Presidents (Rater))
23 August 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat meat 00:24 0 Yovt talk contribs (Oops)
- diffhist Talk:Cat meat 00:23 +65 Yovt talk contribs (Added talk warnings like in the other controversial article and talk talk:Dog meat)
22 August 2024
- diffhist Talk:Longcat 22:32 +278 Unnamed anon talk contribs (→Survey (RfC: is Longcat long?)) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 19:53 +206 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→Hunting behaviour explanation?: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat 14:49 +584 FloweringOctopus talk contribs (→Hunting behaviour explanation?: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Cat 12:19 −133 Malcolmxl5 talk contribs (Undid revision 1241650667 by 45.215.254.135 (talk). Unhelpful.) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Talk:Cat 11:56 +133 45.215.254.135 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
20 August 2024
- diffhist Talk:Black cat 13:35 +512 Cymrogogoch talk contribs (→Cath Palug: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Iriomote cat 06:01 +3,386 133.106.176.187 talk (→Trinomial name and conservation status: Reply) Tag: Reply
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.