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.
75 edits | Fishing cat |
18 edits | Ray cat |
12 edits | Malayan tiger |
8 edits | Cat |
7 edits | Tiger |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 28 March 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts[edit]
Articles for deletion
- 13 Mar 2024 – Gukjeong chumyo (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Traumnovelle (t · c) was closed as keep by Liz (t · c) on 26 Mar 2024; see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
Good article nominees
- 26 Mar 2024 – Fishing cat (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Wolverine XI (t · c) was not promoted by Grungaloo (t · c), see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 16 Feb 2024 – Domestic short-haired cat (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Domestic long-haired cat by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Feb 2024 – Domestic long-haired cat (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Domestic short-haired cat by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Feb 2024 – Foldex cat (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of experimental cat breeds#Foldex by SMcCandlish (t · c); see discussion
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
28 March 2024
- diffhist Talk:Fishing cat 09:24 −91 Wolverine XI talk contribs (Rm) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Fishing cat 08:32 +343 Wolverine XI talk contribs Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Amur leopard 02:40 +101 RudolfRed talk contribs (→Proposed update to the weight range given for male specimens.)
- diffhist Talk:Fishing cat 00:27 −260 Grungaloo talk contribs (close Fishing cat good article nomination as unsuccessful (GANReviewTool))
27 March 2024
- diffhist Talk:Exotic Feline Rescue Center 10:58 +38 Johnsoniensis talk contribs (cat)
- diffhist Talk:Cats in Australia 02:16 +4 Bahudhara talk contribs (Restored revision 1200140029 by Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk): Rv ungrammatical change) Tags: Twinkle Undo
26 March 2024
- diffhist Talk:Fishing cat 14:22 +343 Wolverine XI talk contribs (Fishing cat to GAN) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Gukjeong chumyo 06:02 +79 Liz talk contribs (Old AFD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gukjeong chumyo closed as keep (XFDcloser))
- diffhist m Talk:Cat 04:34 −272 Annh07 talk contribs (Reverted edit by 2600:6C48:77F0:9FA0:8AB:E464:A84A:247 (talk) to last version by Annh07) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist Talk:Cat 04:24 +272 2600:6c48:77f0:9fa0:8ab:e464:a84a:247 talk (→BBC if hcgfttfnevdhxgrbsd! Kdoavtc: new section) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
25 March 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cougar 22:15 +286 Pillowcrow talk contribs (→Semi-protected edit request on 25 March 2024: Reply to edit request.)
- diffhist m Talk:Cat 19:37 −145 Annh07 talk contribs (Reverted edit by 207.68.198.6 (talk) to last version by AnonMoos) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist Talk:Cat 19:29 +145 207.68.198.6 talk (→i love cats :3: new section) Tags: Reverted New topic
- diffhist m Talk:Cat meat 19:14 −122 Philipnelson99 talk contribs (Reverted edits by Ebaymaniijdkkdhsh (talk) (HG) (3.4.12)) Tags: Huggle Rollback
- diffhist Talk:Cat meat 19:14 +122 Ebaymaniijdkkdhsh talk contribs (→Merge proposal: Reply) Tags: Reverted Reply
- diffhist m Talk:Cat meat 19:14 −35 Shadow311 talk contribs (Reverted edits by Ebaymaniijdkkdhsh (talk) (AV)) Tags: AntiVandal Rollback
- diffhist Talk:Cat meat 19:13 +35 Ebaymaniijdkkdhsh talk contribs (→Merge proposal) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Talk:Cougar 17:43 +946 MathieuSkyk talk contribs (→Semi-protected edit request on 25 March 2024: new section)
- diffhist Talk:Cats in Australia 15:29 −4 2600:1700:1d40:da30:b89d:5a70:505e:6fb6 talk (→Rename/Rewrite) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Talk:Meow 09:56 −5 Medusahead talk contribs (Undid revision 1215112245 by 2600:100C:B0AE:1E16:0:11:E371:AA01 (talk)) Tag: Undo
24 March 2024
- diffhist Talk:Mara the Lioness 00:52 +242 2600:1700:dae0:e370:68a5:1b1:1e70:8a56 talk (→Age at death?: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
23 March 2024
- diffhist N Category talk:Sculptures of lions in the United Kingdom 18:02 +90 ForsythiaJo talk contribs (←Created page with '{{WPBS|1= {{WikiProject Sculpture}} {{WikiProject Cats}} {{WikiProject United Kingdom}} }}')
- diffhist N Category talk:Snow leopards in popular culture 18:01 +20 ForsythiaJo talk contribs (←Created page with '{{WikiProject Cats}}')
- diffhist N Draft talk:Peach and Goma 07:17 +78 Joshuarhuang talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist Talk:Meow 04:45 +5 2600:100c:b0ae:1e16:0:11:e371:aa01 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Talk:Pallas's cat 01:08 +198 BhagyaMani talk contribs (→First description in non-Western literature?: Reply) Tag: Reply
22 March 2024
- diffhist Talk:Pallas's cat 18:40 +623 Nicknimh talk contribs (→First description in non-Western literature?: new section) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
- diffhist Talk:F. D. C. Willard 17:54 0 Johnjbarton talk contribs (It's a joke son.)
21 March 2024
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.