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.
125 edits | Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax |
9 edits | Animal welfare |
7 edits | Eastern cougar |
6 edits | Cat boarding |
6 edits | Portosystemic shunts in animals |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 12 September 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts
[edit]Did you know
- 27 Aug 2024 – Barry Green (hunter) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Di (they-them) (t · c); see discussion
Proposed deletions
- 30 Aug 2024 – Lorenzo the cat (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by KorvalYubilson (t · c) was deleted
Redirects for discussion
- 11 Sep 2024 – Panther habitat (talk · edit · hist) →Black panther was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion
- 11 Sep 2024 – Keimu (talk · edit · hist) →Black panther was RfDed by 1234qwer1234qwer4 (t · c); see discussion
Featured list candidates
- 25 Aug 2024 – United States presidential pets (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Di (they-them) (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 05 Apr 2024 – Fishing cat (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Wolverine XI (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 04 Sep 2024 – Moggy (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Domestic cat (landrace) by Simmy27star (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 11 Sep 2024 – Black panther (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Leopard by Jashzakrzcwski (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 17 Jul 2024 – Draft:Rheology of cats (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ReyP02 (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
13 September 2024
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 02:17 +1 Animalparty talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 02:16 +1,546 Animalparty talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 01:36 +547 Win8x talk contribs (→Notability?: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 01:29 +452 Jonathan f1 talk contribs (→Notability?: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 01:02 +1,371 TheGutterMonkey talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Moggy 00:40 +406 Dekimasu talk contribs (→Requested move 4 September 2024: support some move)
12 September 2024
- Move log 23:57 Dekimasu talk contribs moved page Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax to Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax over redirect (rv move performed during open move discussion)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 23:43 +928 Carguychris talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 23:30 +442 Carguychris talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 23:19 +105 Carguychris talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 23:18 +349 Feoffer talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 23:15 +1,076 Longestview talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 23:01 +466 Bondegezou talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: r)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 22:56 +177 Paul H. talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 22:36 +391 2600:100a:b1c4:2e20:5c24:a45f:2a3d:c288 talk (→Fake News - Not a hoax.: new section) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 21:17 0 Suonii180 talk contribs (Restored revision 1200704406 by Cewbot (talk)) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Catnip 21:16 0 99.124.191.89 talk (→repellent) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Talk:Moggy 21:03 +324 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→Requested move 4 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Leopard 20:43 +85 BhagyaMani talk contribs (→Merge proposal: added LittleJerry's signature to the "oppose"; can we ask a bot to rectify this?)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 20:39 +71 Daniel Case talk contribs (+CTOPS notice)
- diffhist m Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 20:37 +38 Ashley Y talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax 20:36 +166 Ashley Y talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024)
- diffhist Talk:Leopard 20:12 +289 UtherSRG talk contribs (→Merge proposal: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist m Talk:Leopard 20:10 −1 UtherSRG talk contribs (→Merge proposal: typo)
- diffhist Talk:Leopard 20:10 +411 UtherSRG talk contribs (→Merge proposal: oppose)
- Move log 20:03 Salmoonlight talk contribs moved page Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax to Talk:Springfield, Ohio cat-eating hoax over redirect (Make shorter (WP:CONCISE, WP:PRECISE))
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 19:48 +268 Carguychris talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 19:44 +399 Carguychris talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 19:30 +250 Sergei zavorotko talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 19:09 +837 Carguychris talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 18:57 +441 SuperSkaterDude45 talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024)
- diffhist Talk:Jaguars in Mesoamerican cultures 18:18 +3,388 Xenovok talk contribs (New section about how this article is AI-generated) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 18:14 +1,576 TheGutterMonkey talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 18:11 +380 Rhododendrites talk contribs (→Idea relating to recent RM)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 17:42 +188 PRRfan talk contribs (→Is it really appropriate to classify this as a hoax?: "claims") Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 17:38 +1,080 Acolvin2021 talk contribs (→Semi-protected edit request on 11 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 16:56 +366 Carguychris talk contribs (→Idea relating to recent RM: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 16:55 +166 Marcus Markup talk contribs (→Is it really appropriate to classify this as a hoax?: suggestion)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 16:37 +440 Kcmastrpc talk contribs (→Idea relating to recent RM: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist m Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 16:19 −1 Carguychris talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: remove annoying automatic line break in my comment)
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 16:16 +1,483 TheGutterMonkey talk contribs (→Is it really appropriate to classify this as a hoax?: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 16:13 +771 Carguychris talk contribs (→Idea relating to recent RM: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 16:03 +422 Carguychris talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Moggy 16:03 +192 Asukite talk contribs (Relisted requested move using Move+)
- diffhist Talk:Moggy 16:03 +319 Asukite talk contribs (Added note about notifying WikiProject about requested move using Move+)
- diffhist Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cats 16:03 +392 Asukite talk contribs (Notifying of requested move using Move+)
- diffhist Talk:Leopard 15:43 +254 Jashzakrzcwski talk contribs (→Merge proposal: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit App talk reply
- diffhist Talk:Leopard 15:38 +254 Jashzakrzcwski talk contribs (→Merge proposal: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit App talk reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 15:35 +450 Carguychris talk contribs (→Requested move 12 September 2024: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Springfield, Ohio, cat-eating hoax 15:30 +3,835 TheGutterMonkey talk contribs (→Is it really appropriate to classify this as a hoax?: 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.