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.
14 edits | Tiger |
7 edits | Elsa the lioness |
7 edits | Purebred |
5 edits | World Cat Federation |
4 edits | Asiatic lion |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 19 June 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts[edit]
Proposed deletions
- 07 Jun 2024 – Luke Hunter (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Traumnovelle (t · c) was deleted
Featured article candidates
- 20 May 2024 – Tiger (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by LittleJerry (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 05 Apr 2024 – Fishing cat (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Wolverine XI (t · c); start 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
19 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Orangey 17:22 −144 Gnomingstuff talk contribs (rv 2022 vandalism)
- diffhist Talk:Pet 13:06 +121 202.191.107.4 talk Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 12:20 +1,581 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Cat Impact on Wildlife Populations: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah 06:34 +280 The Great Mule of Eupatoria talk contribs (→Semi-protected edit request on 6 May 2024: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:36 −92 VampaVampa talk contribs (unnecessary sentence)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:24 +16 VampaVampa talk contribs (clarification)
- diffhist m Talk:Domestic long-haired cat 01:18 −205 Tamfang talk contribs (Reverted edit by 2600:1011:B13C:483B:A952:D5BD:DEA6:15C5 (talk) to last version by Traumnovelle) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:07 +1,294 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:02 +2,767 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Cat Impact on Wildlife Populations: Reply) Tag: Reply
18 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Domestic short-haired cat 21:35 +169 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→Proposed Merge: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:53 +428 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Cat Impact on Wildlife Populations: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:30 −4 VampaVampa talk contribs (wording)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:30 +505 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Cat Impact on Wildlife Populations: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:05 +1,129 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Cat Impact on Wildlife Populations: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 17:27 +12 VampaVampa talk contribs (wording)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 17:26 +2,846 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Cat Impact on Wildlife Populations: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 15:39 +1,252 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Cat Impact on Wildlife Populations: Stay on task; focus on science, not policy) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 15:06 +112 VampaVampa talk contribs (paradigm shift appears to primarily apply to policy)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 15:01 +2,983 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Cat Impact on Wildlife Populations: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Snow leopard 15:00 +86 Drsruli talk contribs (→Ounce?)
- diffhist Talk:Domestic short-haired cat 10:13 +143 SailorGardevoir talk contribs (→Proposed Merge: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Domestic short-haired cat 09:42 +161 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→Proposed Merge: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Domestic short-haired cat 09:39 +228 SailorGardevoir talk contribs (→Proposed Merge: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:48 +51 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): Strike "usable with caution as a secondary source interpreting primary sources" because consensus is against it)
17 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 23:54 +1,743 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Cat Impact on Wildlife Populations: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 23:39 +1,605 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Lynn and Animal Personhood: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Domestic long-haired cat 23:28 +205 2600:1011:b13c:483b:a952:d5bd:dea6:15c5 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:British big cats 23:05 +854 Rambling Rambler talk contribs (→Unsourced sentence: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 22:38 +227 Geogene talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): add)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 22:36 +381 Geogene talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 22:33 +157 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018))
- diffhist Talk:British big cats 18:21 +1,708 QuintusPetillius talk contribs (Unsourced sentence)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 17:46 +368 Geogene talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 17:42 +900 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018))
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 17:31 +616 Geogene talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 17:28 +852 Geogene talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018))
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 17:20 +45 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018))
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 17:19 +786 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018))
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 16:49 +372 Geogene talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 16:14 +489 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018))
- diffhist N Draft talk:Taiga Talan (Cat) 02:11 +46 Leonard Higgins talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:11 +29 Geogene talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): ce)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:08 +937 Geogene talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:02 +246 Geogene talk contribs (→Islands and Mainlands: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist m Talk:Tiger 00:57 −16 SilverTiger12 talk contribs (rmv banner bloat) Tag: Manual revert
- diffhist m Talk:Cat 00:56 −33 SilverTiger12 talk contribs (rmv banner bloat)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:42 +1,788 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018))
16 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 10:42 +276 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
15 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:57 +307 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:40 +424 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
To Do[edit]
Articles needing attention[edit]
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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.