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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
editGoals
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
editThis 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
editDepartments
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
editIf 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
editThe 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.
33 edits | Tiger |
6 edits | Black cat |
6 edits | Minskin |
5 edits | International Cat Day |
4 edits | Islam and cats |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 14 June 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts
editProposed 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 to be merged
- 01 Jun 2024 – British Longhair (talk · edit · hist) proposed for merging to British Shorthair by Traumnovelle (t · c) was closed; 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
editList 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
14 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 08:46 +2,667 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Longcat 02:51 +644 JPxG talk contribs (→Other sources: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Wilberforce (cat) 02:01 0 Chipmunkdavis talk contribs (→top: GA topic matching)
- diffhist Talk:Sybil (cat) 01:58 −10 Chipmunkdavis talk contribs (→top: GA topic matching)
- diffhist Talk:Sybil (cat) 01:57 +4 Chipmunkdavis talk contribs (→top)
- diffhist Talk:Peter III (cat) 01:57 −6 Chipmunkdavis talk contribs (→top: GA topic matching)
- diffhist Talk:Peter II (cat) 01:57 −6 Chipmunkdavis talk contribs (→top: GA topic matching)
- diffhist Talk:Peta (cat) 01:57 −6 Chipmunkdavis talk contribs (→top: GA topic matching)
13 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 23:46 0 Geogene talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source: ce)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 22:10 +23 Geogene talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source: this is the source I wanted, it call New Zealand a large island mainland ecosystem)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 22:06 +173 Geogene talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source: add)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 22:04 +1,753 Geogene talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 21:55 +712 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and what is considered a mainland)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 21:52 0 Geogene talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source: thread)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 21:29 +525 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source: Don't call me names)
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah 20:07 +16 Catfurball talk contribs (Added section size template.)
- diffhist Talk:South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats 09:12 +532 The C of E talk contribs (→Something missing: re)
- diffhist Talk:South Dakota v. Fifteen Impounded Cats 06:00 +548 Anachronist talk contribs (→Something missing: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Cats and the Internet 04:42 +173 50.46.185.238 talk (→Best article on Wikipedia: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat food 01:31 −1 2409:4081:2c09:567b::67cb:e50c talk Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
12 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Canadian Cat Association 22:03 +196 174.81.215.144 talk (→My two cats are for sale: new section) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:45 +17 Catfurball talk contribs (Added section size template.)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 20:41 +1,510 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Re) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 20:09 +1,544 Geogene talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: the scope of this aritcle is "Cat predation on wildlife", not "Effects of cat predation on wildlife on continents". The rate estimates of hunting numbers are within scope for that. If editors wish to make statements that "cats have no effect on wildlife populations on continents", they should present sources for that.) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 20:03 +670 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:37 +1,614 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 18:10 +981 Geogene talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply. Barcott 2013 is a republication of Barcott 2007, which acknowledged at the time that the science "over the last decade" (1997-2000) was shifting against cats. WP:OLDSOURCES) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Tiger 17:57 +16 Catfurball talk contribs (Undid revision 1228696040 by SilverTiger12 (talk)It is not banner bloat. It is required look at the page; Template:Section sizes.) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Talk:Tiger 17:27 −16 SilverTiger12 talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by Catfurball (talk): There is no reason that banner is needed on this page. Therefore, it is banner bloat) Tags: Twinkle Undo Reverted
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 16:00 +1 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): wording)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 15:51 +53 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): tweak)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 15:42 +3,642 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018))
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 11:04 +2,142 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:39 +36 VampaVampa talk contribs (link to Google Books)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:27 +536 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:13 +718 VampaVampa talk contribs (editing own response; clarification & reordering of content)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:01 +887 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:54 +2,626 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:32 +3,020 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
11 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 23:31 +1,832 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Tiger 23:11 +16 Catfurball talk contribs (Undid revision 1228526372 by SilverTiger12 (talk)No it is not if you do not like the template nominate it for deletion.) Tags: Undo Reverted
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 22:24 +1,901 Geogene talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 22:07 0 Geogene talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: fixing template again)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 21:49 +2,330 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Trying to get us to start from common ground) Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 21:33 0 Geogene talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: fix talkpage quote template)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 21:30 +694 Geogene talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: add a source (Winter 2004) that directly mentions the Fitzgerald quote that EducatedRedneck asked me about, and supports what I already posted here earlier about it being an WP:OLDSOURCE)
- diffhist Talk:Leopard 19:28 +37 48JCL talk contribs (botswana)
- diffhist Talk:Cheetah 19:27 +37 48JCL talk contribs (low)
- diffhist Talk:Lion 19:27 +37 48JCL talk contribs (botswana)
- diffhist Talk:Tiger 18:33 −16 SilverTiger12 talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by Catfurball (talk): Unnecessary banner bloat) Tags: Twinkle Undo Reverted
To Do
editArticles needing attention
editA 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
editStub cat articles that would benefit from improvement can be found here:
Requested articles
editSeveral 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
editAn automatically generated list of the most visited articles is generated here on a monthly basis: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Popular pages.
All Articles
editCategory:WikiProject Cats articles plus Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Articles
Recommended article layout
editThere 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.