Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to animals. 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 inquire on the talk page and see the Task list. To join the project, add your username here.
Scope and goals
[edit]This WikiProject aims primarily to describe, create and maintain articles on all animals, that is, all species belonging to the kingdom Animalia. This project's scope also includes zoologists and zoology-related articles.
Goals:
- Create and maintain articles about animals to an encyclopedic standard.
- Describe all families, genera and species of the kingdom Animalia.
- Maintain Category:Animals and its subcategories.
- Assess and rate articles under the scope of Wikiproject Animals.
WikiProject Animals Monthly Task List for November
This is the WikiProject Animals monthly task list. If you finish a task, feel free to remove it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals/Monthly.
- Create: Infanticide in primates.
- Maintain: Portal:Animals; nominate DYKs.
- Expand: wholphin.
- Recruit more members! (You may be able to find interested parties in the WikiProjects listed here).
WikiProject family tree
[edit]- WikiProject Science
- WikiProject Biology
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Animals
- (By taxa)
- WikiProject Arthropods
- Molluscs:
- Vertebrates:
- (Other)
- WikiProject Animals
- WikiProject Tree of Life
- WikiProject Biology
Similar WikiProjects
[edit]- WikiProject Plants is the project concerning the kingdom Plantae, which WikiProject Animals was modeled after.
- WikiProject Fungi is the project concerning the kingdom Fungi.
- WikiProject Paleontology for extinct and fossil organisms
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals in media
Article alerts
[edit]Today's featured articles
- 26 Nov 2024 – Heptamegacanthus (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb
Did you know
- 21 Nov 2024 – Anchorage White Raven (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by GreenLipstickLesbian (t · c); see discussion
- 16 Nov 2024 – Trevor (duck) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Dan Leonard (t · c); see discussion
- 05 Nov 2024 – Paora (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Panamitsu (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Nov 2024 – Peanut (squirrel) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Launchballer (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 15 Nov 2024 – Elephant football (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Demt1298 (t · c); see discussion (8 participants; relisted)
- 15 Nov 2024 – List of horse breeds in DAD-IS (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Grorp (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
- 11 Nov 2024 – Kieran McNulty (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ldm1954 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants; relisted)
- 11 Nov 2024 – Clementechiton (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Zoe Aria (t · c) was closed as delete by Asilvering (t · c) on 18 Nov 2024; see discussion (11 participants)
Categories for discussion
- 23 Nov 2024 – Category:Animals and humans (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Nov 2024 – Category:Predators (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Nov 2024 – Category:Fictional predators (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Nov 2024 – Category:Ascaridida (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Premeditated Chaos (t · c); see discussion
- 13 Nov 2024 – Category:Species endangered by climate change (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Fayenatic london (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 15 Nov 2024 – Paora (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Panamitsu (t · c); start discussion
- 14 Oct 2024 – Deception in animals (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start discussion
Articles to be merged
- 01 Oct 2024 – EDGE species (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to EDGE of Existence programme by UtherSRG (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 03 Jan 2024 – Anisakis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Dec 2023 – Marthasterias (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Plantdrew (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Oct 2021 – Animal furniture (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 94.232.189.253 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 13 Nov 2024 – Draft:American Ringtail (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 2600:1700:3828:7140:988A:ECC0:7FD:21FF (t · c)
- 06 Nov 2024 – Draft:Urocyon littoralis santacruzae (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Wise Elephant 04 (t · c)
- 22 Oct 2024 – Draft:Pyrosomatinae (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Atlas Þə Biologist (t · c)
- 17 Oct 2024 – Draft:João Paulo Krajewski (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Robertabonaldo (t · c)
- 03 Oct 2024 – Draft:Katherine Compitus (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 173.243.164.130 (t · c)
- undated – Draft:Fu Bao (panda) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
- 20 Nov 2024 – Draft:Mekazoo (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Thelifeofan413 (t · c) was declined by Vrxces (t · c) on 22 Nov 2024
- 19 Nov 2024 – Draft:Arie the Sealion (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Pizzzyy (t · c) was moved to Draft:Arie (sea lion) (talk · edit · hist) by HouseBlaster (t · c) on 21 Nov 2024
AfDs
[edit]Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Animal
Naming conventions
[edit]Common (vernacular) names are not capitalised (except where proper names appear).
Article content
[edit]For articles where a common name is used for the article title, the consensus way to write the combination of common name plus scientific name in the lead is (per this discussion):
- The giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) is an even-toed ungulate mammal....
Namely, bold common name followed by bolded and italic scientific name in parentheses.
Barnstar
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The Fauna Barnstar | |
| This award is given to those who have made significant contributions to articles that are part of WikiProject Animals |
Usage
To use this, simply add
{{The Fauna Barnstar|message ~~~~}}
to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message indicating why they are receiving the award.
Tools
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
- Specific category example: Orphaned articles in Animals
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Cladogram requests - Cladogram requests page
- SpeciesHelper - For species articles, automatically adds the short description, speciesbox, category, taxonbar, and stub template.
Direct links
[edit]- Alphabetic results: Alphabetic cleanup listing
- By category results: By category cleanup listing
- Specific category: Orphaned articles cleanup listing Note: Spaces in the category name need to be replaced with %20
Obsolete
[edit]- Main tool page: "tools:~dispenser/view/Tools|toolserver.org"
- "tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks|Reflinks" - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- "tools:~dispenser/view/Checklinks|Checklinks" - Edit and repair external links
- "tools:~dispenser/view/Dab_solver|Dab solver" - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- "tools:~dispenser/view/Peer_reviewer|Peer reviewer" - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
