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.
12 edits | Bicolor cat |
12 edits | Siamese cat |
6 edits | Tabby cat |
6 edits | Lion |
5 edits | Fishing cat |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 20 October 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts
[edit]Articles for deletion
- 03 Oct 2024 – Karelian Bobtail (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
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
18 October 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat grass 18:44 −454 Roller steaks talk contribs (Remove Online Communities assignment details) Tags: Manual revert dashboard.wikiedu.org [2.3]
- diffhist Talk:Cat 11:43 −122 Alexeyevitch talk contribs (rv test) Tag: Manual revert
- diffhist Talk:Cat 11:38 +122 197.9.251.149 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah 11:36 +202 Geardona talk contribs (→Grammatical errors: Responded to edit request) Tag: editProtectedHelper
- diffhist Talk:Lion 07:09 +185 Traumnovelle talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Lion 05:47 +840 Drakekyr talk contribs (→Semi-protected edit request on 18 October 2024: new section)
17 October 2024
- diffhist m Category talk:Extinct cat breeds 23:42 +27 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Extinction}}) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Talk:Bobcat 22:02 +909 Pillowcrow talk contribs (→Bay Lynx: Reply)
- diffhist m Category talk:European wildcat subspecies 21:14 +23 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Europe}}) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Talk:Siamese cat 19:23 −1 Traumnovelle talk contribs (Move to bottom)
- diffhist Talk:Siamese cat 19:22 +256 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→Adding information to the lead: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Siamese cat 16:29 +277 Tsommer23 talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Rabies in animals 12:38 0 Jonesey95 talk contribs (Fix high-priority Linter errors.)
- diffhist Talk:Fishing cat 04:24 −307 TheTechnician27 talk contribs (Promoted to GA.)
16 October 2024
- diffhist Talk:Bobcat 13:36 +229 BhagyaMani talk contribs (→Bay Lynx: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Bobcat 09:20 +477 Cyan Rey talk contribs (→Bay Lynx: new section) Tag: New topic
15 October 2024
- diffhist Talk:HICC Pet 22:40 −12 Heinzberg89 talk contribs
- diffhist N Talk:HICC Pet 22:39 +156 Heinzberg89 talk contribs (←Created page with '{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1= {{WikiProject United States}} {{WikiProject Cats|class=start|importance=low}} {{WikiProject Dogs|class=start|importance=low}} }}')
- diffhist Talk:Trap–neuter–return 16:24 +313 Nylnoj talk contribs (→Addressing NPOV issues, starting with the lead paragraph: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:African leopard 13:21 +16 Sadko talk contribs ({{Talk header}}) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Talk:African leopard 13:21 −405 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Taxonomy section" to Talk:African leopard/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:African leopard 13:21 −820 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Size of the Barbary leopard" to Talk:African leopard/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:African leopard 13:21 −249 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Why I redirected Barbary leopard into African leopard" to Talk:African leopard/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:African leopard 13:21 −125 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Page views" to Talk:African leopard/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:African leopard 13:21 −1,227 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "External links modified" to Talk:African leopard/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:African leopard 13:20 −225 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "I add two references. Is that enough?" to Talk:African leopard/Archive 1)
- diffhist Talk:African leopard 13:20 −159 Sadko talk contribs (OneClickArchived "Untitled" to Talk:African leopard/Archive 1)
14 October 2024
- diffhist Talk:Trap–neuter–return 15:10 +721 Geogene talk contribs (→Addressing NPOV issues, starting with the lead paragraph: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Trap–neuter–return 14:31 +344 2600:4808:48f5:3400:c164:c4fc:cef8:77a talk (→Addressing NPOV issues, starting with the lead paragraph: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Creme Puff (cat) 08:07 +252 Catfrost talk contribs (→Photograph is incorrect: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Creme Puff (cat) 08:04 +1,127 Catfrost talk contribs (→Other very long-lived cats: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield pet-eating hoax 06:49 −7 Goodtiming8871 talk contribs (→Photo and caption edits: updated)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield pet-eating hoax 05:39 +42 Goodtiming8871 talk contribs (→Photo and caption edits: updated)
- diffhist Talk:Trap–neuter–return 05:25 +427 Geogene talk contribs (→Addressing NPOV issues, starting with the lead paragraph: fix the ordering. I don't know why Nylnoj didn't contest these citations in the order they appear in the article, but it makes it a lot harder for me to format this reply)
- diffhist Talk:Trap–neuter–return 03:00 +47 Geogene talk contribs (→Addressing NPOV issues, starting with the lead paragraph: ce, add)
- diffhist Talk:Trap–neuter–return 02:58 +2,202 Geogene talk contribs (→Addressing NPOV issues, starting with the lead paragraph: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Trap–neuter–return 02:22 +235 Nylnoj talk contribs (→Addressing NPOV issues, starting with the lead paragraph: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Trap–neuter–return 01:11 +1,596 Geogene talk contribs (→Addressing NPOV issues, starting with the lead paragraph: Reply) Tag: Reply
13 October 2024
- diffhist Talk:Trap–neuter–return 21:46 +1,279 Nylnoj talk contribs (→Addressing NPOV issues, starting with the lead paragraph: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Moggy 20:17 +1,783 Compassionate727 talk contribs (Closing requested move; not moved using Move+)
- diffhist Talk:Fishing cat 19:48 +411 Jts1882 talk contribs (→Pocock 1939: archive.org outage days not longer)
- diffhist Talk:Fishing cat 19:22 +8 Wolverine XI talk contribs (→Pocock 1939: Ce) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
- diffhist Talk:Fishing cat 19:21 +341 Wolverine XI talk contribs (→Pocock 1939: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit Reply
- diffhist Talk:Coraline's Curious Cat Trail 18:38 +10 Another Believer talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, United States (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Coraline's Curious Cat Trail 18:18 −41 Another Believer talk contribs (done)
- diffhist Talk:Purrington's Cat Lounge 14:23 −40 Another Believer talk contribs (-)
- diffhist Talk:Fishing cat 12:29 +634 Jts1882 talk contribs (→Pocock 1939: text of key)
- diffhist Talk:Fishing cat 11:58 +297 Wolverine XI talk contribs (→Pocock 1939: Reply) Tag: Reply
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.