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Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals

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WikiProject Animals
Founded 28 September 2007
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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.

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:

1. Create and maintain articles about animals to an encyclopedic standard.
2. Describe all families, genera and species of the kingdom Animalia.
3. Maintain Category:Animals and its subcategories.
4. Assess and rate articles under the scope of Wikiproject Animals.

WikiProject Animals Monthly Task List for June

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 Science
  • WikiProject Biology
    • WikiProject Tree of Life
      • WikiProject Animals

        (By taxa)

        • WikiProject Arthropods
          • WikiProject Insects
            • Ant task force
            • WikiProject Beetles
            • WikiProject Diptera
            • WikiProject Lepidoptera
            • WikiProject Phasmatodea
          • WikiProject Spiders
        • Molluscs:
          • WikiProject Bivalves
          • WikiProject Cephalopods
          • WikiProject Gastropods
        • Vertebrates:
          • WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles
            • WikiProject Dinosaurs
            • WikiProject Turtles
          • WikiProject Birds
            • Domestic pigeon task force
            • WikiProject Poultry
          • WikiProject Fishes
            • WikiProject Aquarium Fishes
            • WikiProject Sharks
          • WikiProject Mammals
            • WikiProject Cats
            • WikiProject Cetaceans
            • WikiProject Dogs
              • Dog breeds task force
            • WikiProject Red Wolf
            • WikiProject Equine
              • Horse breeds task force
            • WikiProject Primates
            • WikiProject Rodents
            • WikiProject Bats

        (Other)

        • WikiProject Animal anatomy
        • WikiProject Animal rights
        • WikiProject Cryptozoology
        • WikiProject Neuroscience
        • WikiProject Organismal Biomechanics
        • WikiProject Zoo

• 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

Articles for deletion

• 17 Jun 2024 – International Foxhound Association (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by AusLondonder (t · c); see discussion (6 participants)
• 14 Jun 2024 – Grrr (2024 film) (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by MicrobiologyMarcus (t · c) was closed as keepbyCavarrone (t · c) on 17 Jun 2024; see discussion (12 participants)
• 11 Jun 2024 – Lively Laddie (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Tkaras1 (t · c) was closed as redirectbyDoczilla (t · c) on 18 Jun 2024; see discussion (4 participants)
• 10 Jun 2024 – Evides pubiventris (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by NBV2010 (t · c) was closed as keepbyLiz (t · c) on 17 Jun 2024; see discussion (9 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 12 Jun 2024 – International Foxhound Association (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by AusLondonder (t · c) was deproded by 2.26.171.20 (t · c) on 14 Jun 2024

Good article nominees

• 27 Mar 2024 – Megafauna (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Wolverine XI (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 06 Jun 2024 – Neodiapsida (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to DiapsidbyTrilletrollet (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Jan 2024 – Unavailable name (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Available namebyArtoria2e5 (t · c); see discussion
• 30 Nov 2023 – Lizard (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to SquamatabyHemiauchenia (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

• 05 May 2024 – Draft:Ravindu Nawanjana (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Johnmark2384 (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)
• 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)
• 23 May 2024 – Draft:Paracleistostoma wardi (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by TheMaskedLapwing (t · c) was accepted to Paracleistostoma wardi (talk · edit · hist)byKylieTastic (t · c) on 15 Jun 2024

AfDs[edit]

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Animal

Common (vernacular) names are not capitalised (except where proper names appear).

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.

		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.

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.