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.
8 edits | Tiger |
8 edits | Cat |
8 edits | Cheetah reintroduction in India |
7 edits | Black-footed cat |
7 edits | Turkestan lynx |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 3 May 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); see 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
Articles for creation
- 11 Apr 2024 – Draft:American Ringtail (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by WPGalaxyCat1 (t · c)
- 01 May 2024 – Draft:Konja (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Piraphan (t · c) was declined by Xoak (t · c) on 02 May 2024
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
4 May 2024
- diffhist Talk:Human interaction with cats 01:18 +236 2603:7080:2343:4d00:647c:1bc6:fcb3:8ac8 talk (→Predatory: new section) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
3 May 2024
- diffhist Talk:Ocelot 16:33 +85 Catfurball talk contribs (WikiProjects.)
- diffhist Talk:Ocelot 16:32 −123 Catfurball talk contribs (Remove.)
- diffhist Talk:Margay 16:25 +23 Catfurball talk contribs (WikiProject Mexico.)
- diffhist Talk:Caracal 16:15 +21 Catfurball talk contribs (WikiProject Asia.)
- diffhist Talk:Caracal 16:15 −11 Catfurball talk contribs (Remove.)
- diffhist Talk:Bornean tiger 11:14 +551 Leo1pard talk contribs (→Misinformation about its size and strength from fans of the tiger: Re.)
- diffhist Talk:Bornean tiger 10:59 +491 Leo1pard talk contribs (→Misinformation about its size and strength from fans of the tiger: Edit.)
- diffhist Talk:Bornean tiger 08:28 +355 Leo1pard talk contribs
2 May 2024
- diffhist Talk:Brazilian Shorthair 22:25 +495 Aleksurow talk contribs (Update Studying Information Creation as a Process assignment details) Tag: dashboard.wikiedu.org [2.3]
- diffhist Talk:Bornean tiger 20:33 +382 209.122.93.183 talk (→Size and mass removals: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Bornean tiger 20:30 +270 209.122.93.183 talk (→Size: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Panther 18:02 +90 Fogelmatrix talk contribs (→Fictional "Panthers": Forgot to add signature)
- diffhist Talk:Panther 18:01 +290 Fogelmatrix talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Eurasian lynx 17:35 +44 Catfurball talk contribs (Added WikiProjects.)
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 17:34 +30 Catfurball talk contribs (WikiProject United States.)
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 17:32 −14 Catfurball talk contribs (Remove.)
- diffhist Talk:Bornean tiger 16:11 +367 Leo1pard talk contribs (→Size: Re.)
- diffhist Talk:Meow 15:41 +137 62.122.114.170 talk (→Ancient Egypt: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Bornean tiger 02:20 +408 209.122.93.183 talk (→Size: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Tabby cat 01:16 −200 Tamfang talk contribs (Undid revision 1202928497 by 2600:6C44:6900:E34:3100:7CF8:2038:9AE3 (talk)) Tag: Undo
1 May 2024
- diffhist Talk:European wildcat 20:33 +44 Catfurball talk contribs (Added WikiProjects.)
- Move log 03:43 Dan arndt talk contribs moved page User talk:WalaiPiraphan/sandbox to Draft talk:Konja (Preferred location for AfC submissions)
- diffhist N User talk:WalaiPiraphan/sandbox 02:46 +45 Piraphan talk contribs (Adding WikiProject tags using AfC-submit-wizard)
30 April 2024
- diffhist Talk:Asiatic leopard 18:59 +20 Samoht27 talk contribs (fixxed banner shell)
- diffhist Talk:Javan tiger 18:52 +651 BhagyaMani talk contribs (→Not extinct!! There's at least 1 out there.: refuted)
- diffhist m Talk:Marozi 17:40 +33 Psychologist Guy talk contribs (→Attempt to tidy article up - and a couple of requests for further improvement)
- diffhist Talk:Marozi 17:38 +863 Psychologist Guy talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Marozi 15:38 −2 Aredbeardeddwarf talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Marozi 15:37 +104 Aredbeardeddwarf talk contribs
- diffhist Talk:Marozi 15:34 +230 Aredbeardeddwarf talk contribs (→Attempt to tidy article up - and a couple of requests for further improvement: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Tabby cat 15:22 −154 Chipmunkdavis talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 199.235.193.73 (talk): Contact a local shelter) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Tabby cat 13:53 +154 199.235.193.73 talk (→pleas: new section) Tags: Reverted New topic
- diffhist Talk:Tiger 10:14 +64 JarrahTree talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Bhutan (Low), Indonesia (Low), Myanmar (Low), Thailand (Low) (Rater))
29 April 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah 19:51 −159 UtherSRG talk contribs (Restored revision 1220352197 by Mohitkumar0121210 (talk): WP:NOTAFORUM) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah 19:03 +159 41.114.172.202 talk (→Cheetahs eyes: new section) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist m Category talk:Snow leopards in popular culture 15:25 +55 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Culture}}, {{WPBS}}) Tag: AWB
- diffhist m Category talk:Deaths due to animal attacks in Australia 14:54 −49 Tom.Reding talk contribs (+{{WP Biography}}; cleanup) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Talk:Cat 08:16 +160 85.221.130.7 talk (→An user added "User:CheezDeez ON TOP" to the evolution page - vandalism: Reply) Tag: Reply
28 April 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat 19:25 +476 Jts1882 talk contribs (→An user added "User:CheezDeez ON TOP" to the evolution page - vandalism)
- diffhist Talk:Cat 19:23 +244 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→An user added "User:CheezDeez ON TOP" to the evolution page - vandalism: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat 19:21 +249 Jts1882 talk contribs (Undid revision 1221244936 by Meters (talk)m- there is a caching issue) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Talk:Cat 19:19 −249 Meters talk contribs (bogus request: not in this article or in Felidae, and hasn't been in the last month) Tags: Undo Reverted
- diffhist Talk:Cat 17:12 +2 85.221.130.7 talk (→An user added "User:CheezDeez ON TOP" to the evolution page - vandalism) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Talk:Cat 17:11 +247 85.221.130.7 talk (→An user added "User:CheezDeez ON TOP" to the evolution page - vandalism: new section) Tags: Reverted New topic
- diffhist Talk:Panthera pardus tulliana 16:56 +184 Mohammad.hasnaki talk contribs (→Name of subspecies: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
- diffhist Talk:Panthera pardus tulliana 16:27 +280 BhagyaMani talk contribs (→Name of subspecies: re to Jts1882)
- diffhist Talk:Panthera pardus tulliana 15:53 +403 Jts1882 talk contribs (→Name of subspecies: reply)
- diffhist Talk:Panthera pardus tulliana 15:51 +572 Jts1882 talk contribs (→Name of subspecies: Let's use "Persian Leopard, Anatolian Leopard, and Leopard" and cite the IUCN)
- diffhist Talk:Panthera pardus tulliana 15:46 +154 Mohammad.hasnaki talk contribs (→Name of subspecies: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit 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.