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 members list below.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Departments 3 Participants 3.1 Retired members 3.2 Active members 4 Open Tasks 4.1 Requested articles 5 Recognized content 5.1 Featured Articles 5.2 Featured Pictures 5.3 Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC) 5.4 Good articles 5.5 Did You Know (DYK) 5.5.1 Formerly recognized content 5.5.1.1 Former featured articles 5.5.1.2 Former good articles 6 Cat breeds 6.1 Structure 6.2 Table template 6.3 Related WikiProjects 7 Templates

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Participants

[edit] 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.

[edit] Active members

1. Finiteyoda
2. GeorgeMoney ^T·C
3. General Eisenhower
4. Superior1
5. LuciferBlack
6. Goclenius
7. Oreos
8. PaleoGenious
9. Sarah sofía
10. Pharaoh Hound
11. InsaneAsylum
12. Marc (aka: Merlinus)
13. the_ed17
14. Tennessee Wood
15. Gangsta-Easter-Bunny
16. Raimu
17. Nufciv
18. WikiCats
19. D-Day
20. Raichu
21. JaymzSpyhunter
22. Great Legacy
23. Ray-Ray
24. Felixboy 15:11, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
25. Allison Stillwell
26. Morbid amber
27. KhanadaRhodes
28. Kitty the Random
29. Badbilltucker 20:19, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
30. Vargher
31. Lego1496E-mail me
32. Alex43223
33. eniarrol
34. Ostrich11 16:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
35. ~Sushi 09:45, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
36. FaerieInGrey
37. DrL
38. NightSky
39. Dionyseus 13:08, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
40. Wishkres
41. user:B katt 500
42. Lunde
43. prakash
44. Ramdrake
45. Lisapollison
46. DoomsDay349 14:53, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
47. Dr. Root
48. Chicochango
49. Quiddity
50. Quincunxcats
51. Zacharycrimsonwolf 13:14, 14 November 2006 (UTC) 15:18, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
52. -The Doctor-
53. Bensaccount 16:56, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
54. Lachatdelarue (talk) 14:41, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
55. Quill 22:32, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC) helping as time allows
56. Pschemp 04:19, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
57. Cats rule 06:15, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC) helping as my cats permit
58. [[User:Norm|Nor^{m]] 21:03, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)}
59. Svasti 22:45, 2004 Nov 14 (UTC)
60. Somebody in the WWW 01:56, 9 Jan 2005 (UTC)
61. Badbilltucker 13:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
62. Quincunxcats 00:02, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
63. {Happy Holidays | Cocoaguy (Talk) (edits) 21:48, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
64. Arya 05:44, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
65. Madmegaman 18:25, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
66. Candy-Panda
67. The Rambling Man 20:17, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
68. Darkest Hour 15:46, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 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
• Bobcat
• The Cat in the Hat
• Cheetah
• Lion
• 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.

[edit] Requested articles

• Harrison Weir, 1880s UK founder of international cat shows
• Jad-bal-ja
• Jiseiin cat temple
• Roger Tabor, cat biologist, The Wild Life of the Domestic Cat

[edit] 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.

[edit] Featured Articles

• Cat
• Felix the Cat
• Jaguar
• Krazy Kat
• Paracetamol

[edit] Featured Pictures

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

[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

Articles on cat-related subjects in Peer Review prior to Featured Article submission:

• none at this time.

[edit] Good articles

• Bobcat - promoted November 18, 2006.
• Newshounds - promoted July 10, 2006
• Rabies - promoted early (date unknown)

[edit] 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.

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

• Meowth

[edit] Cat breeds

[edit] 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 giving basic information on other names, country of origin etc.
• introduction: general information about the breed, brief history, description.
• breed description
  • sub-categories of the breed
  • coat types and colors
  • temperament
• breed history
• known medical issues
• more?

[edit] Table template

Name of cat
Image:Name of image.jpg
Alternative names
Alternative name Alternative name
Common nickname
e.g., Abys, Curls, Mau
Country of origin
Country
Breed standards (external links)
CFA, ACFA, TICA, CCA, ACF, GCCF, FIFe
Notes
Note

Pink is used as the background colour to tie in with the Animalia category in the Tree of Life WikiProject.

The second-from-bottom table cell is for links to the external sites' pages for the cat breed standards.

The bottom table cell is for notes on the breed (i.e. Breed in developement, cross registration, etc.)

The following generic links for the breed registries are a good starting point for finding the URLs for each breed.

|[1], [2], [3], [4], ACF, [5], [6]

Note: the GCCF and FIFe don't have their standards on their home pages. GCCF standards may be found on individual breed club pages; see GCCF affiliated clubs. The FIFe standards don't seem to be currently available online. TICA standards can be difficult to find because they are .pdf files, and the search function on the TICA homepage doesn't find them.

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

[edit] Related WikiProjects

• Dog breeds
• Horse breeds

[edit] Templates

{{WikiProject Cats|class=}}

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

	Cats Portal This article is supported by the Cats WikiProject. 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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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.

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