Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats
This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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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.
45 edits | Ocelot |
24 edits | Caracal |
13 edits | United States presidential pets |
10 edits | Fishing cat |
6 edits | Cats of Malta |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 1 September 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts
[edit]Did you know
- 27 Aug 2024 – Barry Green (hunter) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Di (they-them) (t · c); see discussion
Proposed deletions
- 30 Aug 2024 – Lorenzo the cat (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by KorvalYubilson (t · c): Page was created as self promotion by owner of the cat.
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); see 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
1 September 2024
- diffhist Talk:Longcat 02:29 +315 Rhododendrites talk contribs (→Survey (RfC: is Longcat long?))
31 August 2024
- diffhist m Talk:Primordial pouch 21:55 +1 Soulbust talk contribs (oops)
- diffhist m Talk:Primordial pouch 21:55 −9 Soulbust talk contribs
- diffhist N Talk:Primordial pouch 21:55 +92 Soulbust talk contribs (←Created page with '{{WikiProject banner shell|class=C|1= {{WikiProject Animal anatomy}} {{WikiProject Cats}} }}')
- diffhist m Talk:Cat communication 00:46 −209 Meters talk contribs (Reverted edit by 2600:6C9D:5D00:7C:5D91:3306:DFFF:D5D7 (talk) to last version by Wastrel Way) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist Talk:Cat communication 00:45 +209 2600:6c9d:5d00:7c:5d91:3306:dfff:d5d7 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
30 August 2024
- diffhist Talk:National Cat Day 14:57 +1 Mooonswimmer talk contribs (class) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
29 August 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat food 19:40 −300 Mediatech492 talk contribs (Restored revision 1228761007 by 2409:4081:2C09:567B:0:0:67CB:E50C (talk): WP:NOTFORUM) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Cat food 18:40 +143 80.7.226.38 talk (→Kitten🐈🐾🐟: Reply) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat food 18:38 +157 80.7.226.38 talk (→Kitten🐈🐾🐟: new section) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Longcat 15:33 +509 Jlwoodwa talk contribs (→Survey (RfC: is Longcat long?): both)
- diffhist Talk:Cats of Malta 13:29 +138 Slgrandson talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Film, +Cats, +Malta (Rater))
- diffhist N Talk:Cats of Malta 13:17 +131 SafariScribe talk contribs (Placing WikiProject banners (AFCH))
- diffhist Talk:Lion 08:09 +832 Giles Laurent talk contribs (→Male lion picture upgrade: Reply) Tag: Reply
28 August 2024
- diffhist Talk:Black dog syndrome 21:36 +116 Sebbog13 talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Psychology, Dogs, +Cats, +Adoption, fostering, orphan care and displacement (Rater))
- diffhist m Template talk:Taxonomy/Acinonyx 20:17 +53 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Cats}}, {{WPBS}}) Tag: AWB
- diffhist m Template talk:Taxonomy/Felinae 20:17 +53 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Cats}}, {{WPBS}}) Tag: AWB
- diffhist m Template talk:Taxonomy/Panthera 20:17 +53 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Cats}}, {{WPBS}}) Tag: AWB
- diffhist m Template talk:Taxonomy/Pantherinae 20:17 +53 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Cats}}, {{WPBS}}) Tag: AWB
27 August 2024
- diffhist m Template talk:Taxonomy/Felidae 20:03 +51 Tom.Reding talk contribs ({{WP banner shell|{{WP Cats}}}}) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Talk:Black cat 18:43 +538 2a02:c7c:bceb:3500:2d74:2b7c:d8a9:8c01 talk (→Cath Palug: Reply) Tag: Reply
- 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
To Do
[edit]Articles needing attention
[edit]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.