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.
10 edits | Tiger |
10 edits | Christian the lion |
6 edits | Cat health |
6 edits | Lewis (cat) |
5 edits | Bengal tiger |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 7 June 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts[edit]
Proposed deletions
- 07 Jun 2024 – Luke Hunter (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Traumnovelle (t · c): fails GNG, cannot find sigcov of this specific luke hunter
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 to be merged
- 01 Jun 2024 – British Longhair (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to British Shorthair 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)
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
8 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 05:21 +126 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Addition of old sources and misuse of primary sources: Reply) Tag: Reply
7 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Flat-headed cat 15:41 +50 Catfurball talk contribs (Added WikiProject.)
- diffhist Talk:Nelson (cat) 15:19 0 Tim O'Doherty talk contribs (Undid revision 1227742610 by Chipmunkdavis (talk) Sorry, what's the rationale here? It's very much a history topic.) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Talk:Nelson (cat) 15:18 0 Chipmunkdavis talk contribs (→top: Updating GA topic) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Talk:Humphrey (cat) 15:16 −6 Chipmunkdavis talk contribs (→top: Updating GA topic)
- diffhist Talk:Wampus cat 03:10 +118 Woodroar talk contribs (→Cherokee Myth Sources: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat 00:42 +284 CanonNi talk contribs (→Semi-protected edit request on 6 June 2024: Marked the edit request as completed (Edit Request Tool))
6 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat 23:22 +210 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→Semi-protected edit request on 6 June 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat 23:17 +298 2600:100c:a107:162e:5088:4e05:b47a:d3eb talk (→Semi-protected edit request on 6 June 2024: new section)
- diffhist Talk:Wampus cat 22:46 +622 71.92.94.31 talk (→Cherokee Myth Sources: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Ewaso Lions 09:06 +18 Johnsoniensis talk contribs (cat)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 04:57 +245 My very best wishes talk contribs (→Addition of old sources and misuse of primary sources)
5 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:British Shorthair 15:39 −344 Apaugasma talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by Al Shaykh Al Kasuri (talk): Rv block evasion) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Domestic short-haired cat 15:32 −180 Apaugasma talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by Al Shaykh Al Kasuri (talk): Rv block evasion) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Schrödinger's cat 14:08 +284 Johnjbarton talk contribs (→Proposal for new interpretation: sign per wp:sign)
- diffhist Talk:Schrödinger's cat 14:05 −1 Johnjbarton talk contribs (restore chronological order)
- diffhist Talk:Cat 12:13 +177 Mediatech492 talk contribs Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Talk:Cat behavior 11:23 +1,278 FloweringOctopus talk contribs (→Daytime and nighttime sleep and activity patterns: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Schrödinger's cat 11:16 +786 188.111.33.14 talk (→Copied to Quantum Mind page)
- diffhist Talk:Cat 10:52 +18 AnonMoos talk contribs (→An user added "User:CheezDeez ON TOP" to the evolution page - vandalism)
- diffhist m Talk:Cat 05:10 −243 BhagyaMani talk contribs (Reverted 2 edits by 143.44.165.246 (talk) to last revision by Meters) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Cat 01:34 +122 143.44.165.246 talk Tags: Reverted New topic
- diffhist Talk:Cat 01:34 +121 143.44.165.246 talk Tags: Reverted New topic
4 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Domestic short-haired cat 20:08 +180 Al Shaykh Al Kasuri talk contribs (→Proposed Merge) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist m Talk:Siamese cat 01:50 −123 Chipmunkdavis talk contribs (Reverted edit by 216.186.101.92 (talk) to last version by Cewbot) Tag: Rollback
3 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Siamese cat 18:39 +123 216.186.101.92 talk (→Ragdolls?: Reply) Tags: Reverted Reply
- diffhist m Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 03:21 −2 VampaVampa talk contribs (brackets not needed)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 03:19 +317 VampaVampa talk contribs (last comment)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 03:12 +2,335 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Addition of old sources and misuse of primary sources: Reply) Tag: Reply
2 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:British Shorthair 22:49 +344 Al Shaykh Al Kasuri talk contribs (→Proposed Merge) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat 22:40 −170 Meters talk contribs (Undid revision 1226966266 by 70.106.196.239 (talk) a blank request) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:05 +170 70.106.196.239 talk (→Semi-protected edit request on 2 June 2024: new section) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Talk:Meow 20:22 +263 Evaporation123 talk contribs (→Miaow?: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Toxoplasma gondii 18:40 +287 142.163.195.114 talk (→"one of the only hosts": new section) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Casper (cat) 17:13 +15 Bruce1ee talk contribs (added {{talkheader}})
- diffhist Talk:Casper (cat) 17:13 −256 Bruce1ee talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 2A01:261:C6F:5900:33B4:E245:6BAF:F52F (talk): Off topic; please read the notice at the top of this page) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Casper (cat) 17:11 +256 2a01:261:c6f:5900:33b4:e245:6baf:f52f talk (→Kaj je imel najraje?: new section) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
1 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:British Shorthair 23:06 +466 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→Proposed Merge: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist m Talk:Selective breeding 13:05 −212 Velella talk contribs (Reverted edit by 2601:84:837C:24F0:9CD8:2A9A:C922:FD7 (talk) to last version by Damian Yerrick) Tag: Rollback
- diffhist Talk:Scottish Fold 12:36 +198 2a02:2f07:6209:9600:d895:2e7:2eb6:2367 talk (→Pokemon Reference: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Reply
- diffhist Talk:Selective breeding 10:58 +212 2601:84:837c:24f0:9cd8:2a9a:c922:fd7 talk Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit 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.