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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.
41 edits | Tiger |
12 edits | Smilodon |
4 edits | Acinonyx |
4 edits | Javan tiger |
4 edits | Leopard |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 16 April 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts[edit]
Good article nominees
- 15 Apr 2024 – Cheetah reintroduction in India (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Magentic Manifestations (t · c); start discussion
- 05 Apr 2024 – Fishing cat (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Wolverine XI (t · c); start discussion
Peer reviews
- 15 Apr 2024 – Tiger (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by LittleJerry (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
Articles for creation
- 11 Apr 2024 – Draft:American Ringtail (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by WPGalaxyCat1 (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 April 2024
- diffhist m Talk:Clouded leopard 21:55 0 Catfurball talk contribs (Oops.)
- diffhist Talk:Clouded leopard 21:54 +188 Catfurball talk contribs (WikiProjects.)
- diffhist Talk:Neutering 21:02 +823 Lunamann talk contribs (Notification: listing of Entire (animal) at WP:Redirects for discussion.) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist Talk:List of individual cats 20:04 +254 Humphrey Tribble talk contribs (→Criteria: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
- diffhist m Talk:Leopard 19:34 +21 Catfurball talk contribs (WikiProject Asia.)
- diffhist Talk:Tiger 19:31 −39 Catfurball talk contribs (Extinct there.)
- diffhist Talk:Panther (legendary creature) 19:18 +96 Braganza talk contribs (→Legendary?: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cougar 18:45 +30 Catfurball talk contribs (WikiProject South America.)
- diffhist Talk:Pampas cat 18:40 +30 Catfurball talk contribs (WikiProject South America.)
- diffhist Portal talk:Cats 13:16 +228 SurgeArrest talk contribs (→Status report from the Portals WikiProject)
15 April 2024
- diffhist m Talk:Tiger 16:25 +98 Catfurball talk contribs (WikiProjects Bhutan, Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand.)
- diffhist Talk:Tiger 13:55 +26 LittleJerry talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah reintroduction in India 04:47 +258 Magentic Manifestations talk contribs Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Talk:Pet humanization 00:51 +386 Octopirate talk contribs (→Edited Anthrozoology section: Reply) Tag: Reply
14 April 2024
- diffhist Draft talk:American Ringtail 22:52 +792 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→Issues: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist m Talk:Hammondia hammondi 14:43 +41 Snoteleks talk contribs (wp)
- diffhist Talk:Javan tiger 12:39 +478 BhagyaMani talk contribs (→Not extinct!! There's at least 1 out there.: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Javan tiger 11:33 +241 WikiHmmmm... talk contribs (→Not extinct!! There's at least 1 out there.: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Javan tiger 11:08 +242 WikiHmmmm... talk contribs (→Not extinct!! There's at least 1 out there.: Reply) Tag: Reply
13 April 2024
- diffhist m Category talk:Pets of British royalty 17:04 −88 Tom.Reding talk contribs (Remove unknown param from WP British Royalty: non-bio; cleanup) Tag: AWB
12 April 2024
- diffhist m Talk:Cat 14:26 −24 K6ka talk contribs (Reverted edits by 70.60.9.146 (talk) (HG) (3.4.12)) Tags: Huggle Rollback
- diffhist Talk:Cat 14:25 +24 70.60.9.146 talk (→Evolution section fails to have the basic information) Tag: Reverted
11 April 2024
- diffhist Draft talk:American Ringtail 23:40 +24 WPGalaxyCat1 talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags (assisted))
- diffhist N Draft talk:American Ringtail 23:23 +44 WPGalaxyCat1 talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist m Talk:Lion 15:52 −63 GrayStorm talk contribs (Reverted edits by 50.221.214.70 (talk) (AV)) Tags: AntiVandal Rollback
- diffhist Talk:Lion 15:52 +63 50.221.214.70 talk (→"simulating sex" is homophobic phrasing) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist m Talk:Bobcat 00:54 −341 BhagyaMani talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 2600:6C51:6B7F:F3A8:7E50:FB1F:E866:4C4D (talk) to last revision by BattyBot) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Bobcat 00:53 +341 2600:6c51:6b7f:f3a8:7e50:fb1f:e866:4c4d talk (→Semi-protected edit request on 11 April 2024: new section) Tag: Reverted
10 April 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat 01:56 −148 Meters talk contribs (Undid revision 1218153957 by 221.126.249.66 (talk) not a forum) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Talk:Cat 01:39 +148 221.126.249.66 talk (→Cat: new section) Tags: Reverted New topic
- diffhist Talk:Pet humanization 01:18 +375 Fluxjupyter talk contribs (→Edited Anthrozoology section: new section) Tag: New topic
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.