Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats

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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

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

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

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Things you can do

Here are some tasks you can do:

Requests: Jad-bal-ja , Kurilian Bobtail, Roger Tabor.
Wikify: Oriental Longhair
Merge: Feral cat colony into Feral cat
Expand: Barbary Lion, Black-footed cat, Wild cat, Cat intelligence, Cat health, Feline lower urinary tract disease, Feline vaccination
Stubs: Barbary leopard, Felinae, Harrison Weir, , Semi-feral, Therapy cat, More...
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. 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.

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.

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

Hmm. Just realised that there is an article on Felid hybrid. Maybe and article on Domestic/wild feline hybrid to distinguish from naturally occuring and human created big cat 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		Importance
Cats articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	4			1	1	6
	FL					1	1
	GA				1	2	3
	B	5	3	5	3	42	58
	C		1				1
	Start	6	1	11	19	144	181
	Stub		2	2	6	220	230
	List					1	1
	Assessed	15	7	18	30	411	481
	Unassessed					304	304
	Total	15	7	18	30	715	785

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

Singapura (cat)] - promoted October 22, 2008
Moonrise (Warriors) - promoted April 5, 2008
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.
Tama (cat) - May 30, 2008.

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Former good articles

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Newshounds

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
Country of origin
Country X
Breed standard
CFA	: standard
TICA	: standard
ACFA	: standard
CCA	: standard
Others	: XYZ ABC

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.

The WikiProject banner below should be moved to this page's talk page.
If this is a demonstration of the template, please set the parameter |category=no to prevent this page being miscategorised.

WikiProject Cats

Cats portal

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Cats.

This project provides a central approach to Cat-related subjects on Wikipedia.

Please participate by editing the article, and help us assess and improve articles to good and 1.0 standards, or visit the wikiproject page for more details.

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Photos

You can add this template {{reqphoto|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

Participants

Retired members
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.