Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Felidae and all varieties of cats. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please add your name to the list of active members below.

Scope

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This project deals with the creation and editing of articles related to cats, including both real and fictional cats. 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.

Departments

• Assessment - This 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.
  • Tagging: placing the {{WikiProject Cats}} template to the talk pages of all cat-related articles so that we know what pages are within our scope to improve.
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Assessment/Top-importance articles - Where we get to fight like cats and dogs rationally discuss which articles we think are of the greatest importance to the project.
• Peer review - This department provides editors with (comparatively) quick responses to their questions regarding the quality of specific articles.
• Gallery - a collection of some of our best and most honored images.
• Outreach - This department will be engaged in informing our members of the projects' activities and in trying to recruit new members.
• Collaboration - This department allows us to concentrate our efforts on improving important articles to this project.
• Portal:Cats - Maintain featured status.

Open Tasks

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Things you can do

Here are some tasks you can do: Article requests: American Association of Cat Enthusiasts Expand: 2002 Japan animal cruelty case, 2008 South China animal consumption incidents, Abandoned pets. More... Stubs: Barbary leopard, Chausie, Farm cat, Felinology, Skookum (cat), More... Verify: Canadian Cat Association Other: Tag and assess "cat" articles with {{WikiProject Cats}} banner. See also Cats Wikiproject open tasks.

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. Also, the Simple English Wikipedia could use some help on expanding their cat breed articles. 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. The following articles, among others, are counted as being of high importance to this project, and any development of them would be greatly appreciated.

• Arabian Leopard
• Barbary Lion
• Black-footed cat
• Cat (former FA)
• Cheetah
• Ocelot
• Wild cat

Collaboration article of the month

The collaboration subproject is currently suspended. See Talk:collaboration is you are interested in restarting this project.

Regular cleanup

A cleanup listing for this project is available, updated by WolterBot. More information...

You can also review the list of recent changes at recent changes to monitor for vandalism or to see if any article has been changed enough to change its current level of assessment.

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.

24 edits	American Humane Association
19 edits	The Cat in the Hat
19 edits	Feral cat
8 edits	Oggy and the Cockroaches
6 edits	Catscratch

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. This section is updated daily.

Requested Mergers

• Scratching post into Cat play and toys
• Catfight (animal behavior) and Kneading (cats) into Cat behavior

Article Alerts

Article alerts

Requested moves

• 23 Feb 2012 – Van Cat (talk · edit · hist) move request by SMcCandlish (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Updated daily by AAlertBot — Discuss? / Report bug? / Request feature?

Recognized content

We want everyone to know that the Portal:Cats is now officially recognized as a Wikipedia:Featured portal. We hope everyone will continue to contribute to the project's articles to help ensure that this portal can remain one of the best in wikipedia.

Index · Statistics · Log

Cats articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
Other	17	45	186	536	78	114	976
Assessed	17	45	186	536	78	114	976
Total	17	45	186	536	78	114	976

Featured Articles

• Bobcat
• Cougar
• Jaguar
• Lion
• Fritz the Cat (film)
• The Story of Miss Moppet

Featured Lists

• Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office
• Dickin Medal

Featured Pictures

A collection of this project's nominated and winning pictures can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Gallery.

Peer review, Featured article candidates (FAC) or Good article nominees

Moonrise (Warriors) is currently a featured article candidate

Good articles

• Singapura (cat) – promoted October 22, 2008
• Maine Coon – promoted January 12, 2009
• Mew (Pokémon) – promoted July 10, 2009
• Fritz the Cat – promoted July 20, 2009
• Puss in Boots – promoted August 6, 2009
• Humphrey (cat) – promoted September 2, 2009
• Mewtwo – promoted October 10, 2009
• Into the Wild (Warriors) – promoted August 10, 2010
• Warriors (novel series) – promoted August 26, 2010
• Norwegian Forest Cat – promoted March 27, 2011
• Moonrise (Warriors) – promoted July 8, 2011

Did You Know (DYK)

The following articles have been featured on the Main page in the Did you know section:

• Polydactyl cat - November 16, 2005
• Socks - November 30, 2005.
• Scarlett the cat - October 16, 2006
• Mrs. Chippy - October 30, 2006
• Peter, the Lord's cat - November 6, 2006.
• Tama (cat) - May 30, 2008.
• CFA International Cat Show - January 4, 2010.
• Dorofei - March 23, 2010.
• Casper (cat) - February 3, 2011.
• Casper the Commuting Cat - February 3, 2011.

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

• Cat
• Felix the Cat
• Krazy Kat

Former good articles

• Meowth
• Rabies
• Moonrise (Warriors)

Cat breeds

Structure

There currently exists an article entitled List of cat breeds, which enumerates the various recognized breeds.

The article on each breed shall include the following information:

• a breed infobox(see below).
• lead section: introduction, general information about the breed, brief history, description.
• history: traditional/historical info. modern breed development etc.
• breed description: physical appearance, coat types, colors, temperament etc.
• health: known medical issues etc
• more?

Templates

Cat breed articles

Breed name
Breed image
Origin	Country X
Breed standard
CFA	standard
TICA	standard
ACFA/CAA	standard
CCA	standard
Others	XYZ   ABC
Domestic cat (Felis catus)

The cat infobox on the right is generated by {{Infobox Catbreed}}. Documentation is contained on the template page. Note that some articles still use a non-templated infobox, which can be recognized by its thick gray borders. The template allows for the inclusion of a picture and caption, common names, nicknames, country of origin and links to breed standards of major registries. Other smaller organizations with separate breed standards can be included in "Others" if appropriate. Articles about non domestic felines should use Template:Taxobox.

Talk page

This banner {{WikiProject Cats|class=|importance=}} is for placement in the talk pages of cat-related articles.

Photos

You can add this template {{Image requested|cats}} in the talk page of articles needing photos. The article is automatically added to the requested photographs of cats category.

User page

You can add {{user WikiProject Cats}} to your userpage if you choose to join this project.

	This user is a member of WikiProject Cats.

;Barnstars Many projects have barnstars specifically designed for their projects. At this point this project does not. We are now however considering proposals for barnstar designs at Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals#WikiProject Cats. Please feel free to make any suggestions or indicate your opinion of the existing proposals, for this project's barnstar proposals and any others that might interest you, there. I hope that we can have one accepted and available for giving out to the appropriate editors shortly.

Related WikiProjects

• Veterinary Medicine
• Dog breeds
• Horse breeds
• Mammals

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Cats

Directory of WikiProjects

WikiProject Council

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