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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.
89 edits | Tiger |
9 edits | Panthera |
9 edits | Panthera blytheae |
7 edits | Iberian lynx |
6 edits | Bengal tiger |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 30 June 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts
editFeatured 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
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
29 June 2024
- diffhist m Talk:Iberian lynx 05:29 −319 BhagyaMani talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 2601:244:4601:90B0:4C79:E579:CA7D:567C (talk) to last revision by RscprinterBot) Tags: Twinkle Undo
- diffhist Talk:Iberian lynx 04:40 +319 2601:244:4601:90b0:4c79:e579:ca7d:567c talk (→Inbreeding: new section) Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit New topic
- diffhist m Talk:Golden tiger 04:03 −659 Materialscientist talk contribs (Reverted edits by 2402:8100:3038:E261:1:2:8FE3:5564 (talk) to last version by Cewbot) Tag: Rollback
27 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Pet adoption 21:44 +507 Yz9988 talk contribs (Update Research Process and Methodology - SU24 - Sect 200 - Thu assignment details) Tag: dashboard.wikiedu.org [2.3]
- diffhist Talk:Pet adoption 21:42 −507 Yz9988 talk contribs (Remove Research Process and Methodology - SU24 - Sect 200 - Thu assignment details) Tags: Manual revert dashboard.wikiedu.org [2.3]
- diffhist Talk:Pet adoption 21:41 +507 Yz9988 talk contribs (Update Research Process and Methodology - SU24 - Sect 200 - Thu assignment details) Tags: Reverted dashboard.wikiedu.org [2.3]
- diffhist Talk:Sphynx cat 12:54 −40 Gnomingstuff talk contribs (rv 2008 vandalism to others' comments)
25 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 15:55 +293 Noren talk contribs (→20th century: Reply) Tag: Reply
24 June 2024
- Move log 10:37 Mate6742 talk contribs moved page Draft talk:My Angela to Draft talk:My Talking Angela (Correct name for the game.)
- diffhist Talk:Ray cat 04:45 +82 Di (they-them) talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Energy, +Philosophy (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Blynx 03:02 −4 Awkwafaba talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Cats, −Mammals (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Bobcat 03:01 +50 Awkwafaba talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Cats, Mammals (High), United States (High) (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Canada lynx 02:59 +51 Awkwafaba talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Cats, Canada (High), United States (High), Mammals (High) (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Cave lynx 02:58 +29 Awkwafaba talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Mammals, Palaeontology, Cats, +Italy (Low), +France (Low) (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Eurasian lynx 02:56 +67 Awkwafaba talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Cats, Mammals (High), Europe (High), Asia (High) (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Eurasian lynx reintroduction in Great Britain 02:55 +44 Awkwafaba talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, +Biota of Great Britain and Ireland, +Cats, −Animals (Rater))
23 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Lynx hei 15:08 −5 Awkwafaba talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Cats, Palaeontology, −Mammals (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Mexican bobcat 14:46 +35 Awkwafaba talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Cats, +Mexico (Low), −Mammals (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Lynx thomasi 14:40 −6 Awkwafaba talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Cats, Palaeontology, −Mammals (Rater))
- diffhist Talk:Exotic felids as pets 13:29 +19 Awkwafaba talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell, Cats (Rater))
To Do
editArticles needing attention
edit![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/50px-Edit-clear.svg.png)
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
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.