Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats

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 members list below.

Scope

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.
  • 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 - Still in the development stage, this department will allow us to concentrate our efforts on improving important articles to this project.
• Portal:Cats - Maintain featured status.

Open Tasks

See also: Portal:Cats/Things you can do

If you do happen to have some free time on your hands, we would greatly appreciate your tagging any articles which don't already have the {{WikiProject Cats}} banner, or improving any of the articles which haven't yet reached good article status. Also, the simple English wikipedia could use a lot of help on their cat articles. Right now, the only domestic breed with its own article there is the Manx, and it's only three sentences long. 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. Also, the following articles, among others, are counted as being of high importance to this project, and any development of them would be greatly appreciated.

• Barbary Lion
• Black-footed cat
• Black panther
• Cat (former FA)
• The Cat in the Hat
• Cheetah
• Wild cat

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.

Requested articles

• Jad-bal-ja - The Golden Lion in Tarzan and the Golden Lion

Probably not notable enough for its own article. --165.21.154.93 (talk) 05:07, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

• Roger Tabor, cat biologist, The Wild Life of the Domestic Cat

I agree with Roger, an article documenting the impact domestic cats have on native wild species is a must with special emphasis on bird impacts. - user:Grant Ziesemer

There is an article on Feral cats --165.21.154.93 (talk) 05:07, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

• Hybrid cat - A general article on domestic/wild hybrids

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
FA	7						7
FL		1		1			2
FM					11		11
GA	13	1	3	12			29
B	11	26	12	21			70
C	18	37	43	128		1	227
Start	8	38	58	225		1	330
Stub	3	25	8	56			92
List		1		10	2	1	14
Category					236		236
Disambig					20		20
File					8		8
Portal					1		1
Project					31		31
Redirect			3	4	181		188
Template					79		79
NA					1		1
Other					9		9
Assessed	60	129	127	457	579	3	1,355
Total	60	129	127	457	579	3	1,355
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 3,378			Ω = 4.47

Featured Articles

• Bobcat
• Cougar
• Felix the Cat
• Jaguar
• Krazy Kat
• Lion

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)

• none currently

Good articles

• Newshounds - promoted July 10, 2006
• Rabies - promoted early (date unknown)

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.

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

• Cat

Former good articles

• Meowth

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 table(see below) giving basic information on other names, country of origin etc.
• 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?

Table template

Breed name
Domestic cat (Felis catus)

The cat infobox is generated by {{Infobox Catbreed}}; documentation is contained on the template page. If usage is still unclear, see Abyssinian (cat) for an example.

Note that many articles still use a non-templated infobox, which can be recognized by its thick gray borders.

The template allows for the inclusion of links to breed standards. The following generic links for the breed registries are a good starting point for finding the URLs for each breed.

CFA, ACFA, TICA, CCA, ACF, GCCF, FIFe, WCF

Note: the GCCF doesn't have its standards on their home pages. GCCF standards may be found on individual breed club pages; see GCCF affiliated clubs. TICA standards can be found on its Executive Office Webpage for publications at: TICAEO Standards in PDF-Format.

Other organizations with separate breed standards should be in a final section of the article titled "External Links".

Related WikiProjects

• Veterinary Medicine
• Dog breeds
• Horse breeds
• Mammals

Templates

{{WikiProject Cats|class=}}

To be emblazoned across the talk pages of every cats-related article and non-article cats page…

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.

Photos

You should add this template {{reqphoto|cats}} in the talk page. The article is automatically added to the requested photographs of cats category.

Userbox

{{user WikiProject Cats}}

This user is a participant in WikiProject Cats.

Participants

Retired members

1. Sergeant Snopake - one of the great early promoters and defenders of this project, and our honorary commander in chief. Her presence and good humour are sorely missed.

Active members

1. j@5h+u15y@nClick Here for a random page... 01:03, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
2. Pumpmeup
3. CheetahKeeper
4. Finiteyoda
5. GeorgeMoney ^T·C
6. General Eisenhower
7. Superior1
8. LuciferBlack
9. Goclenius
10. Oreos
11. PaleoGenious
12. Sarah sofía
13. Pharaoh Hound
14. InsaneAsylum
15. Marc (aka: Merlinus)
16. the_ed17
17. Tennessee Wood
18. Gangsta-Easter-Bunny
19. Raimu
20. Nufciv
21. WikiCats
22. D-Day
23. Raichu
24. JaymzSpyhunter
25. Great Legacy
26. Ray-Ray
27. Felixboy 15:11, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
28. Allison Stillwell
29. Morbid amber
30. KhanadaRhodes
31. Kitty the Random
32. Badbilltucker 20:19, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
33. Vargher
34. Lego1496E-mail me
35. Alex43223
36. eniarrol
37. Ostrich11 16:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
38. ~Sushi 09:45, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
39. FaerieInGrey
40. DrL
41. NightSky
42. Dionyseus 13:08, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
43. Wishkres
44. user:B katt 500
45. Lunde
46. prakash
47. Ramdrake
48. Lisapollison
49. DoomsDay349 14:53, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
50. Dr. Root
51. Chicochango
52. Quiddity
53. Quincunxcats
54. Zacharycrimsonwolf 13:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC) 15:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
55. -The Doctor-
56. Bensaccount 16:56, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
57. Lachatdelarue (talk) 14:41, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
58. Quill 22:32, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC) helping as time allows
59. Pschemp 04:19, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
60. Cats rule 06:15, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC) helping as my cats permit
61. Nor^m 21:03, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
62. Svasti 22:45, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC)
63. Somebody in the WWW 01:56, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
64. Badbilltucker 13:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
65. Quincunxcats 00:02, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
66. {Happy Holidays | Cocoaguy (Talk) (edits) 21:48, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
67. Arya 05:44, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
68. Madmegaman 18:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
69. Candy-Panda
70. The Rambling Man 20:17, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
71. Darkest Hour 15:46, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
72. Flubeca 16:33, 9 April 2007 (UTC) Working on assessing all cat wikiproject articles.
73. ^DAVID _CAT 15:34, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
74. Samurai321:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
75. GowsiPowsi17:22, 17th April 2007 (UTC)
76. DavidJJJ 17:25, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
77. Politics rule 19:29, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
78. SpoonThief
79. S234
80. AlexMiller.Canada
81. Tim Vickers 20:32, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
82. dziban303 18:21, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
83. speciate
84. Kuronue 15:26, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
85. Janpanrocks56
86. Ultimaterasengan160.253.128.7 13:11, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
87. Scibah
88. Geotex
89. Ohadaloni
90. Erinhayden 22:44, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
91. Endlessdan 16:01, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
92. SamWhitey 17:25, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
93. Iceberg2229 18:53, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
94. I like cool userboxes, that are really cool!!! Monkeys smell good. Have you ever smelled the weather. This makes no sence. Do you ever make no sence. Well I do all the time. Thank You for your time.
95. Matthew_ave_jor 17:27 November 28 2007
96. ANOMALY-117 (talk) 18:00, 18 December 2007 (UTC) kitty kitty kitty ihave lots of kitties their were six (feral) then five and now four. poor little things... so how can i help?
97. The4532 (talk) 02:48, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
98. Pumagirl7 (talk) 01:08, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
99. Kuronue | Talk 16:35, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
100. Jt Persian
101. Ianlopez1115 05:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
102. Bubblesmiles 09:23, 18 February 2008 (UTC)