Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats

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Enter and be welcome!

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"
— "The Tyger" by William Blake

Welcome to WikiProject Cats, a wikiproject dedicated to improving to Wikipedia's articles relating to the family of mammals known as the Felidae and commonly referred to as "cats". Any editor can help contribute to this project by looking at the tasks listed here to find something in their interest or inquire on the talk page. Anyone seeking to join should add their name to the list of active participants.

Purpose

Goals

• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of cats by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
• To serve as the central point of cat-related article discussion.
• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles about cats.

Scope

This project deals with the creation and editing of articles related to cats, both wild species and domestic breeds. 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. This scope excludes fictional cat or cat-like characters that appear in literature, art, movies, comics, television, video games, or other media.

Parent project

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals
• See also: WikiProject Veterinary medicine

Departments

• The Assessment 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.
• The Peer review is where editors can put cat-related articles up for a local peer review, which provides scrutiny and suggestions for the further improvement of the article.
• The Recognized content showcases Featured or Good articles, topics, and pictures, as well as a list of DYKs.
• The Collaboration has been inactive since August 2010. It was established to nominate an article for improvement each month.
• Maintain Portal:Cats

Activity

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. 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.

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.

18 edits	Homotherium
6 edits	Felidae
5 edits	Caspian tiger
4 edits	Sand cat
4 edits	Ship's cat

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 2 August 2025 by HotArticlesBot.

Article Alerts

Articles for deletion

• 27 Jul 2025 – Automatic litter box (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by PacificDepths (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)

Recent changes

List of abbreviations (help):

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Edit made at Wikidata

r

Edit flagged by ORES

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New page

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Minor edit

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Bot edit

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2 August 2025

• diffhist Talk:Feral cat 20:50 +301 Meters talk contribs (→"For the aircraft, see SkyReach BushCat.": r)
• diffhist Talk:Feral cat 16:26 +236 Tillman talk contribs (→"For the aircraft, see SkyReach BushCat.": new section) Tag: New topic

1 August 2025

• diffhist Talk:Felis lunensis 13:41 +11 Tillman talk contribs (Assess as Mid importance for Paleontology. Add foto RQ (for life reconstruction))
• diffhist Talk:Cats and the Internet 01:09 −198 Zefr talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 203.54.217.42 (talk) to last revision by Æ's old account wasn't working) Tags: Twinkle Undo
• diffhist Talk:Cats and the Internet 01:01 +198 203.54.217.42 talk (→lebron james: new section) Tags: Reverted New topic

31 July 2025

• diffhist Talk:Jones (fictional cat) 22:43 +1 Tillman talk contribs (→top: Assess as high importance for Cats. "one of the top 15 best movie cats of all time". Mid importance for the Studio and SciFI)

30 July 2025

• diffhist Talk:Grizabella 14:44 −328 Gnomingstuff talk contribs (rv 2009 WP:NOTFORUM)

29 July 2025

• diffhist Talk:Cat 19:39 +364 Traumnovelle talk contribs (→"On islands with seabirds up to 60% of cats consume birds")
• diffhist Talk:Automatic litter box 19:39 +17 Jackshaffer talk contribs (→Paid Editing Disclosure)
• diffhist Talk:Automatic litter box 19:38 +33 Jackshaffer talk contribs (→Paid Editing Disclosure)
• diffhist Talk:Automatic litter box 19:37 −39 Jackshaffer talk contribs (→Paid Editing Disclosure)
• diffhist Talk:Cat 19:37 +438 FredTheDeadHead talk contribs (→"On islands with seabirds up to 60% of cats consume birds": Reply) Tag: Reply
• diffhist Talk:Automatic litter box 19:36 +2,101 Jackshaffer talk contribs
• diffhist Talk:Cat 16:57 +1,751 Geogene talk contribs (→Is the domestic cat still considered a "big cat"?: new section)
• diffhist Talk:Cat Sculpture at IKEA Junction 02:20 +56 Adavidb talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Cats, India (Rater))
• diffhist Talk:P-1 (mountain lion) 02:19 +16 Adavidb talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, California, Cats, Ecology (Rater))
• diffhist Talk:P-2 (mountain lion) 02:18 +16 Adavidb talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, California, Cats, Ecology (Rater))

28 July 2025

• diffhist Talk:Meow (cat) 19:20 +164 ERcheck talk contribs (Undid revision 1303034052 by ERcheck (talk) - undo in error) Tag: Undo
• diffhist m Talk:Meow (cat) 19:19 −164 ERcheck talk contribs (Reverted 1 edit by 162.210.218.193 (talk) to last revision by Cewbot) Tags: Twinkle Undo Reverted
• diffhist m Talk:Library cat 09:06 +2 Platdujour talk contribs (→More references: OCD) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist m Talk:Library cat 09:05 +10 Platdujour talk contribs (minor edit) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Talk:Library cat 09:05 +693 Platdujour talk contribs (Added references to talk page) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Talk:California Wildlife Protection Act of 1990 07:56 +16 Adavidb talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, California, Cats, Ecology (Rater))
• diffhist Talk:P-64 (mountain lion) 03:45 +12 Adavidb talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, California, Cats, Ecology (Rater))
• diffhist Talk:Rufus of England 03:44 +16 Adavidb talk contribs (Assessment: banner shell (Rater))
• diffhist Talk:Oda al Gato 03:44 +59 Adavidb talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Cats, Poetry (Rater))
• diffhist Talk:Gus: The Theatre Cat 03:43 +39 Adavidb talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Cats (Rater))

27 July 2025

• diffhist Talk:Automatic litter box 21:48 +427 PacificDepths talk contribs (→Paid Editing Disclosure: decline conflict of interest edit request) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Talk:Jane R. Cathcart 13:06 +66 Izmirsmear talk contribs (Assessment (Low): banner shell, Cats, Biography, Women in Music, New Jersey (Rater))

To Do

Articles needing attention

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Participants can look at the Category:Cats articles needing attention page that indicates the deficiencies in articles that can be improved. Articles with one or more templates questioning the content on the article page itself are placed in the category by adding |attention=yes to the project banner on the talk page.

Stubs

Stub cat articles that would benefit from improvement can be found here:

• Category:Stub-Class Cats articles
• Category:Feline stubs

Requested articles

Several red links exist in some cat related articles, and there are also several other pages which have been requested to be created. They can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Requested articles.

Most popular articles

An automatically generated list of the most visited articles is generated here on a monthly basis: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Popular pages.

All Articles

Category:WikiProject Cats articles plus Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats/Articles

Recommended article layout

There currently exists an article entitled List of cat breeds, which enumerates the various recognized breeds. Breed articles that already exist and are labeled with Category:Cat breeds appear on that category page, as well.

Title: The article for each breed is titled based on the apparently most-common official breed name, in English-language sources, such as the major registries. This namme is also used in the List of cat breeds. Where the major registries are evenly split on the name, or where the breed is not recognized by the major registries, the article title is be chosen using the most commonly used name in other English-language sources.

Redirects: When creating a new page, redirects or disambiguations under other possible names should be created to point to the page.

The article on each breed should include the following information, generally in this order:

• Lead section: summary of general information about the breed, brief history, brief description.
• History
• Characteristics
  • Appearance
    • Build and proportions, height and weight ranges
    • Ears, tail, muzzle, etc.
    • Coat types and colors
    • Subcategories of the breed
  • Behavio[u]r (optional and requires excellent sourcing, independent of the breed and its breeders – not registries, breeder-written magazine articles, self-published blogs and forums, etc.)
• Health, possibly including:
  • Life expectancy
  • Common medical issues (optional and requires excellent sourcing per WP:MEDRS – veterinary works, leading cat-care handbooks; not blogs, advice columns, or other primary sources.)
• Legal and regulatory matters (optional, as required)
• See also (optional)
• References
• External links (optional): Links to web sites that expand on the encyclopedic info provided by wikipedia. Generally excluded are local breed clubs (too many hundreds to try to maintain the links), commercial sites (where the ads or intent to sell something are blatant), forums and blogs (not particularly encyclopedic).

Galleries and "In popular culture" sections are discouraged per wider Wikipedia guidelines.