Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals
This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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Scope and goals
This
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 April
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
- 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
- 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 Paleontologyfor extinct and fossil organisms
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals in media
Article alerts
Did you know
- 15 Apr 2024 – Mum (sea lion) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Panamitsu (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 24 Apr 2024 – Bosnian names of primate families (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Occidental Phantasmagoria (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 24 Apr 2024 – Guatemalan Dogo (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 22 Apr 2024 – Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca and Ailurus fulgens) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by UtherSRG (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
- 21 Apr 2024 – List of dog breeds from India (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Traumnovelle (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 19 Apr 2024 – Gabriel Mendoza Gagnier (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by North8000 (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 14 Apr 2024 – Going Ape (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Voorts (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
Categories for discussion
- 11 Apr 2024 – Category:Natural history of the United States (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c) was closed; see discussion
- 11 Apr 2024 – Category:Natural history of Australia (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c) was closed; see discussion
Templates for discussion
- 02 Apr 2024 – Template:Animal actors (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Di (they-them) (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 20 Apr 2024 – Tape worm (talk · edit · hist) →Cestoda was RfDed by 108.21.221.8 (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 14 Apr 2024 – Heptamegacanthus (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Mattximus (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 14 Apr 2024 – Joy (dog) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Jacob0790 (t · c); start discussion
- 28 Mar 2024 – Skeleton panda sea squirt (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chaotic Enby (t · c); see discussion
- 27 Mar 2024 – Megafauna (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Wolverine XI (t · c); start discussion
- 07 Mar 2024 – Savika (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Zanahary (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 12 Jan 2024 – Unavailable name (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Available name by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Dec 2023 – Physalia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Portuguese man o' war by Jlwoodwa (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Nov 2023 – Lizard (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Squamata by Hemiauchenia (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
- 23 Apr 2024 – Draft:Chusky (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by James Inka (t · c)
- 17 Apr 2024 – Draft:Ants of the Democratic Republic of Congo (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by ThatAntGuy (t · c)
- 11 Apr 2024 – Draft:American Ringtail (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by WPGalaxyCat1 (t · c)
- 30 Mar 2024 – Draft:João Paulo Krajewski (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Robertabonaldo (t · c)
- 17 Mar 2024 – Draft:Gaborone Game Reserve (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by M5637 (t · c)
- 15 Mar 2024 – Draft:Wildlife Wonders Apollo Bay (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 122.108.112.180 (t · c)
- 08 Mar 2024 – Draft:Atlantic Shark Institute (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tomaskoeck (t · c)
- 08 Mar 2024 – Draft:The Metapopulation Initiative (The Cheetah Metapopulation Project) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Kelseylbrown (t · c)
- 08 Feb 2024 – t · c)
- undated – Draft:Tachash (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was declined by ToadetteEdit (t · c) on 21 Apr 2024
AfDs
Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Animal
Naming conventions
Common (vernacular) names are not capitalised (except where proper names appear).
Article content
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
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
Tools
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
- 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
- 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.