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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
Goals
- 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
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
Departments
- 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
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
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.
40 edits | Tiger |
6 edits | Minskin |
5 edits | International Cat Day |
4 edits | Purrington's Cat Lounge |
3 edits | Dusty the Klepto Kitty |
These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 15 June 2024 by HotArticlesBot.
Article Alerts
Proposed deletions
- 07 Jun 2024 – Luke Hunter (talk · · hist) PRODed by Traumnovelle (t · c) was deleted
Featured article candidates
- 20 May 2024 – Tiger (talk · · hist) was FA nominated by LittleJerry (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 05 Apr 2024 – Fishing cat (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Wolverine XI (t · c); start
Articles to be merged
- 01 Jun 2024 – British Longhair (talk · · 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 · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by WPGalaxyCat1 (t · c)
Recent changes
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
15 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:57 +307 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:40 +424 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:38 +1,062 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 19:26 +1,598 EducatedRedneck talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist m Talk:Adelphailurus 11:36 −76 Tom.Reding talk contribs (-stray sig) Tag: AWB
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 01:00 +2,258 SMcCandlish talk contribs (→Lynn et al (2019) versus Loss & Marra (2018): r)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:54 +56 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Islands and Mainlands: adjust links)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:53 +314 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Islands and Mainlands)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:21 +160 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Islands and Mainlands)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:21 +9 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Islands and Mainlands: wording)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:17 +199 Geogene talk contribs (→Islands and Mainlands: The source says what it says. The source says what it says--that Australia and New Zealand count as mainlands. Why do you want to go against that?) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 00:06 +692 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Islands and Mainlands)
14 June 2024
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 22:31 +348 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: ?)
- diffhist Talk:Cat 21:40 +905 Skarmory talk contribs (Notification: listing of Cat poison at WP:Redirects for discussion.) Tag: Twinkle
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 21:29 +1 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Islands and Mainlands: typo)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 21:22 +279 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 20:54 +53 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source)
- diffhist Talk:Bobcat 18:39 −1 81.187.192.168 talk (Undid revision 1229075618 by Cole8980 (talk)) Tag: Undo
- diffhist Talk:Bobcat 18:33 +1 Cole8980 talk contribs (h) Tag: Reverted
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 18:27 +203 Geogene talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source: I am not being uncivil to you, instead of making those allegations here, get a consensus that I am at the open AN/I thread.) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 18:11 +1,302 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Islands and Mainlands: new section) Tag: New topic
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 17:45 +61 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 17:43 +1,270 Iamnotabunny talk contribs (→Rewrite of lede, using a website as a source)
- diffhist Talk:Ocelot 14:39 +508 Jts1882 talk contribs (→Ocelot predators.: comment)
- diffhist Talk:Ocelot 14:31 +408 Silentsinofendlesssleeping talk contribs (→Minecraft: Reply) Tags: Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 12:24 +71 VampaVampa talk contribs (quote highlighted, added remark)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 12:22 +27 VampaVampa talk contribs (self-edit for clarity)
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 12:20 +1,414 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 11:31 +1,766 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- diffhist Talk:Cat predation on wildlife 10:04 +5,711 VampaVampa talk contribs (→Arbitrary Break: Reply) Tag: Reply
- 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
To Do
Articles needing attention
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
Stub cat articles that would benefit from improvement can be found here:
Requested articles
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
An automatically generated list of the most visited articles is generated here on a monthly basis: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Popular pages.
All Articles
Category:WikiProject Cats articles plus Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Articles
Recommended article layout
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.