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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
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 February
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 Paleontology for extinct and fossil organisms
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals in media
Article alerts
Articles for deletion
- 25 Feb 2021 – Wild Things Zoofari (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Timtrent (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
- 13 Feb 2021 – John J. Ensminger (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Possibly (t · c); see discussion (5 participants; relisted)
- 13 Feb 2021 – Plantain-eater (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Mike Peel (t · c) was closed as redirect by Natg 19 (t · c) on 20 Feb 2021; see discussion (5 participants)
Articles to be merged
- 02 Feb 2021 – Animal-assisted therapy (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Thunder and Bolt by Iztwoz (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Nov 2020 – Chlorocruorin (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Erythrocruorin by Artoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Oct 2020 – Channichthys rhinoceratus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Channichthys by Paul Carpenter (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Oct 2020 – Channichthys irinae (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Channichthys by Paul Carpenter (t · c); see discussion
- 01 Oct 2020 – Terrestrial animal (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Terrestrial locomotion by Dunkleosteus77 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 26 Jan 2021 – Draft:World Dog Alliance (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Xombie321 (t · c)
- 29 Nov 2020 – Draft:Fishing Cat Conservancy (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Myusername432 (t · c)
- 19 Nov 2020 – Draft:Michelson Found Animals Foundation (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Sophia.Logan (t · c)
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 unbolded italic scientific name in parentheses.
Barnstar
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| 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
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Tree of Life/Cladogram requests - Cladogram requests page