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.
20 edits | Frances Simpson |
8 edits | Munchkin cat |
7 edits | Sand cat |
6 edits | Caspian tiger |
6 edits | Arabian leopard |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 5 December 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts
[edit]Categories for discussion
- 26 Nov 2024 – Category:Big cat attack victims (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Articles for creation
- 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
5 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah reintroduction in India 16:06 +113 Fowler&fowler talk contribs (→Changes to the article: minor corrections)
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah reintroduction in India 16:01 +45 Fowler&fowler talk contribs (→Changes to the article: adding the version of the quote with wikilinks)
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah reintroduction in India 15:47 +922 Fowler&fowler talk contribs (→Changes to the article: corrected and added a little)
- diffhist Talk:Coraline's Curious Cat Trail 15:11 +50 Another Believer talk contribs (GOCE template)
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah reintroduction in India 13:56 +2,979 Fowler&fowler talk contribs (→Changes to the article: Reply an example) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah reintroduction in India 13:23 +1,009 Fowler&fowler talk contribs (→Changes to the article: new section) Tag: New topic
4 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 22:40 −62,124 Wizmut talk contribs (move 2019-2022 topics to archive 1)
- diffhist m Talk:Henri (cat) 21:54 −15 Tom.Reding talk contribs (-redundant class param) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Talk:Frances Simpson 19:05 +12 Rosiestep talk contribs ({{WIR|293}})
- diffhist N Talk:Frances Simpson 19:04 +224 Rosiestep talk contribs (Assessment (Low): +banner shell (C), +Biography, +Cats, +Women writers, +Women's History (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Cat fancy 19:04 −19 Rosiestep talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Popular culture (Rater))
3 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:List of largest cats 21:32 +140 87.228.207.217 talk (→Criteria for table-order and inclusion: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:List of largest cats 21:28 +166 OpalYosutebito talk contribs (→Criteria for table-order and inclusion: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:List of largest cats 21:23 +951 87.228.207.217 talk (The article is a bit bizarre (suggestions for improvement))
- diffhist m Category talk:Cat breeds originating in Russia 16:46 +1 Tom.Reding talk contribs (-redundant class param; cleanup) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Talk:Coraline's Curious Cat Trail 16:22 +221 Another Believer talk contribs (+)
- diffhist m Draft talk:Wila Krungthep 15:59 −48 Paul 012 talk contribs (rmv irrelevant)
- diffhist Talk:Coraline's Curious Cat Trail 04:21 −42 Another Believer talk contribs (linked above)
- diffhist Talk:Coraline's Curious Cat Trail 04:13 −246 APK talk contribs (GA)
2 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 22:32 +16 Sadko talk contribs ({{Talk header}}) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 22:32 −1,327 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "External links modified" to Talk:Canada lynx/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 22:32 −1,411 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "External links modified" to Talk:Canada lynx/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 22:32 −830 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Dead Link: Reference 14" to Talk:Canada lynx/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 22:32 −955 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Vandal revert" to Talk:Canada lynx/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 22:31 −926 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Cycle of abundance section needs fleshing out" to Talk:Canada lynx/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 22:31 −2,103 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Endangered in the United States?" to Talk:Canada lynx/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 22:31 −299 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Visual aid (graph) for the population variation" to Talk:Canada lynx/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 22:31 −748 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Possible references to enhance this article" to Talk:Canada lynx/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 22:31 −5,923 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Name" to Talk:Canada lynx/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:Cat 04:10 +108 Tamfang talk contribs (→No mention: Reply) Tag: Reply
1 December 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:43 −30 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention: Removed, since outside the lead there's a whole paragraph dedicated to this) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:30 −8 JacktheBrown talk contribs Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:30 +211 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:26 +275 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→No mention: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:25 −28 JacktheBrown talk contribs Tags: Manual revert Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:21 +28 JacktheBrown talk contribs Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:20 +210 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:19 +8 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention: Sentence in bold, so there will be a greater chance that other users will search for academic sources on this topic) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:15 +482 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→No mention: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:10 +207 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention: Reply (and thanks again)) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:05 +2 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→No mention)
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:02 +320 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→No mention: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:00 +324 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention: True, this source isn't reliable. There are definitely high quality academic sources on this topic (if anyone finds a high-quality academic source, please report it here)) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 20:52 +721 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→No mention: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat 20:40 0 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 20:32 +37 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 20:27 +1 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention: Typo) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 20:26 +261 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 20:21 −113 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 20:20 +17 JacktheBrown talk contribs (→No mention) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
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.