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.
26 edits | Homotherium |
19 edits | Catnip |
6 edits | Tiger |
5 edits | Ocelot |
5 edits | Prionailurus kurteni |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 16 December 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts
[edit]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)
- 08 Nov 2024 – Draft:Wilat (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Thanapon lert (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
16 December 2024
- diffhist N File talk:Lince ibérico (Lynx pardinus), Almuradiel, Ciudad Real, España, 2021-12-19, DD 07.jpg 16:50 +108 Armbrust talk contribs (add project banners)
- diffhist Draft talk:Bigpaul2605 11:52 +26 Bigpaulie2605 talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags (assisted))
- diffhist N Draft talk:Bigpaul2605 11:50 +44 Bigpaulie2605 talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist Talk:Iriomote cat 08:35 +574 94.140.133.128 talk (→Diet composition: new section) Tag: New topic
15 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:Prionailurus kurteni 20:45 +38 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, +China (Low) (Rater))
- diffhist N Talk:Prionailurus kurteni 19:55 +129 SilverTiger12 talk contribs (Assessment: +banner shell (Stub), +Cats (High), +Palaeontology (Low) (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 08:58 +1 Averixus talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: Typo)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 01:51 +260 Eucalyptusmint talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 00:00 +1 Doctorhawkes talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats)
14 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 23:59 +146 Doctorhawkes talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield pet-eating hoax 23:15 +445 FifthFive talk contribs (→Edit request from WP:Requests for page protection/Edit: Edit request not done: The page protection has changed (Edit Request Tool))
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 22:48 +12 WhatamIdoing talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: Fix) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 22:47 +714 WhatamIdoing talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist m Category talk:Cat artists 22:37 +45 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Biography|a&e-work-group=yes}}) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Talk:Cougar 22:31 −401 Adflatuss talk contribs (Restored revision 1234030321 by Noppikalle (talk): Not about improving the article) Tags: Twinkle Undo Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cougar 22:17 +205 107.191.165.7 talk (→hunting a lion: new section) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Cougar 22:16 +9 107.191.165.7 talk (→mountain lions destents) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Talk:Cougar 22:15 +187 107.191.165.7 talk (→mountain lions: new section) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist N Draft talk:Muffindacat 21:32 +70 2a10:d582:8526:0:5cf9:9dcd:809e:b90 talk (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 16:39 +422 NinjaRobotPirate talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 15:14 +756 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: reply)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 11:46 +1,633 Averixus talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 11:12 +34 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: add)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 11:00 −20 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: brevity)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 10:59 −17 Randy Kryn talk contribs (fix to last edit)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 10:58 +840 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: reply)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 10:05 +1,448 Averixus talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 10:00 +38 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: add and re-ping)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 09:59 +385 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: reply)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 09:49 +286 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: add)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 09:45 +52 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: add)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 09:43 +725 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: add)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 04:00 +226 Zzzs talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Meow 03:23 +657 HertzDonuts talk contribs (setup auto archiving)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 02:43 +192 Doctorhawkes talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats)
- diffhist m Talk:Catnip 00:18 +700 AP 499D25 talk contribs (→Cat Alternatives Again: forgot to substitute sockstrike template)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 00:12 +852 AP 499D25 talk contribs (→Cat Alternatives Again: struck out comments by blocked BKFIP sock (User:Actinic), and informed User:Randy Kryn about it.)
13 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:Machairodus 21:38 +354 ExplorerKing talk contribs (→Moving Machairodus horribilis to Amphimachairodous horribilis: new section) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 19:12 +341 Tryptofish talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: RfC comment)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 18:35 +1 Averixus talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: Typo)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 18:34 +451 Averixus talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: Reply)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 17:42 +481 Kevmin talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 17:36 +929 MtBotany talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 17:09 +281 NoonIcarus talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: Comment)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 16:45 +424 Blue-Sonnet talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit Reply
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 16:33 +855 Escape Orbit talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: No)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 14:47 +733 Jts1882 talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: comment added)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 14:02 +2 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: edit)
- diffhist Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cats 13:59 +69 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→RfC at Talk:Catnip#Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: link)
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 13:57 −3 Randy Kryn talk contribs (→Request for comment on catnip alternatives for cats: add)
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.