Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights

See also: Portal:Animal rights

A WikiProject is a group of pages devoted to the management of a topic or family of topics within Wikipedia.

The aim of WikiProject Animal rights is to educate readers and editors about the concept of animal rights and the animal rights movement. Animal rights has been described as one of the central philosophical issues of our time. The idea of extending personhood to non-human animals is supported by a number of philosophers and legal scholars, and there is increasing support among academics for the award of basic rights to other members of the great ape family. Several political parties representing the interests of animals have been founded in Europe and North America, and in Austria each province must appoint an animal solicitor who can initiate court proceedings on behalf of animals.

This is therefore an interesting time to be exploring the issue. It's an exciting period for supporters of the movement, because the status of human beings at the moral pinnacle of the natural world faces serious challenge for the first time. It's challenging for those who rely on the use of animals in research or in industry. It's therefore a topic that can provoke strong feelings. The aim of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia's coverage is not informed by those strong feelings, but by disinterested, neutral, and reliable research.

The project encompasses:

1. Academics, writers, and activists who work on animal rights/liberation
2. The philosophy of animal rights, including issues such as speciesism, animal law, animal cognition
3. Areas of concern such as factory farming and animal testing
4. Vegetarianism, veganism, and other animal-conscious lifestyles
5. Animal rights/liberation groups, such as British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
6. Leaderless resistance movements, such as the Animal Liberation Front, and ad hoc campaigns, such as SPEAK

Tags and templates

Article talk page tags

To add that an article is part of WikiProject Animal rights, add {{WikiProject Animal rights}} or {{WPAR}} to the talk page. You can fill in the parameters by adding e.g. {{WPAR|class=B|importance=high}}. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights/Assessment for information about assessing articles. Example:

User page tag

This user is a member of the Animal rights WikiProject.

To add the project tag to your user page, write {{user wpar}}.

Stubs

To add the AR stub template, write {{animal-rights-stub}}.

Article templates

• Template:Animal rights, also called Template:Alibend (see end of this page) should contain the key people, movements, issues.
• Template:Animal testing is for key people and issues related to animal testing – there may be some overlap between this and the AR template. Or Template:Atestingend to add the same template to the end of the page.

To add the Animal rights template, type {{Alibend}}, or {{Animal rights}}. To add the animal testing templates, type {{animal testing}} and {{atestingend}}.

Categories

• Category:Animal rights (parent category) – for the concept and relevant issues
• Category:Animal rights movement – for AR groups, campaigns, and leaderless resistance movements
• Category:Animal rights advocates – for notable AR advocates, including academics, activists, and writers
• Category:Animal testing – people, companies, and events related to animal testing
• Category:Animal rights stubs – for AR stubs.

Did You Know (DYK)s

Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? (DYN) box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72-hour time limit from the creation of the article.

Article assessment statistics

Animal rights articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	2	3		1	7
GA	1	2	2	7		5	17
B	10	16	25	13		3	67
C	10	49	63	40		14	176
Start	10	32	84	97		43	266
Stub	2	6	39	60	1	23	131
List	1		1	4		1	7
Category		3	1		56		60
Disambig				1	1		2
File					12		12
Portal					1		1
Project					1		1
Template				1	10		11
NA				1	10		11
Assessed	34	109	217	227	92	90	769
Unassessed				8		81	89
Total	34	109	217	235	92	171	858
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7003275700000000000♠2,757			Ω = 4.58

The Wikiproject has an assessment program to categorize the articles within its scope. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Animal rights}} project banner on its talk page. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights/Assessment for more information.

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• Table of articles
• Explanation of article grading system

Recognized content

Featured articles

• An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory
• Brown Dog affair
• Hare coursing

Good articles

• Alasdair Cochrane
• Animal Rights Without Liberation
• Animal welfare
• Animal testing
• Temple Grandin
• Dennis Rodman
• Heather Mills
• John Hadley (philosopher)
• Linda McCartney
• Paul McCartney
• Political Animals and Animal Politics
• R. Madhavan
• PETA satirical browser games

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team

These articles have been selected for one or more release versions of Wikipedia. Please help ensure that they remain of the highest possible quality.

• Animal Liberation Front
• Paul McCartney

Participants

1. Ilikeguys21 ^(talk)
2. JWSchmidt
3. Localzuk ^(talk)
4. Nrets
5. User:Rbogle
6. SlimVirgin ^(talk)
7. Ultimaterasengan
8. The Ungovernable Force
9. TBCTaLk?!?
10. Francis Tyers ·
11. David Olivier
12. Bill Huston (talk)
13. Eddie Mars
14. Doktor Who
15. Trent
16. liberalufp
17. Maynard S. Clark
18. Tangerines
19. Bob98133
20. PatPeter 16:56, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
21. User:tprayx
22. John Carter
23. Elle (talk) 01:03, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
24. User:Hroðulf
25. Sandahl
26. Sandris
27. devotchka
28. Vuerqex
29. Akhran (talk)
30. PhilKnight (talk)
31. Caturdayz
32. User: SenatorSteve (talk)
33. User:Belugaboy535136 ^talk 14:28, 17 January 2010 (UTC) - retired
34. STSC
35. Yakushima (talk) 10:40, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
36. Miniapolis (talk)
37. Gobonobo
38. Ian Mcdonald
39. J Milburn
40. Tezero
41. Rasnaboy (talk) 07:13, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
42. jessfriis
43. LL221W
44. GSMaklary
45. Hyzenthrose
46. Alexandru M. (talk · contribs)
47. PitbullAJWarriorsSurvivorsLover (talk) 14:11, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

See also

Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates