Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals

WikiProject Animals
Founded 28 September 2007
Current Coordinator
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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:

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 family tree

• 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

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

Today's featured articles

• 03 Jul 2025 – Happy Feet (penguin) (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb

Did you know

• 02 Jun 2025 – Meatball (black bear) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Gb321 (t · c); see discussion
• 21 May 2025 – Yao Yuanjun (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Thehistorianisaac (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 18 Jun 2025 – Swineherd (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Altenmann (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 17 Jun 2025 – Western Canada Wilderness Committee (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Fyrael (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
• 15 Jun 2025 – Organization for Respect and Care for Animals (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by UtherSRG (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 22 Jun 2025; see discussion (2 participants)

Categories for discussion

• 15 Jun 2025 – Category:Keepers of animal sanctuaries (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Zxcvbnm (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 17 Jun 2025 – Portuguese man o' war (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by ZKevinTheCat (t · c); start discussion
• 23 Mar 2025 – Murphy (bald eagle) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by LunaEclipse (t · c); start discussion

Peer reviews

• 30 Mar 2025 – Macrobdella decora (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Cremastra (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 17 Jun 2025 – Siphonophorae (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Siphonophore by ZKevinTheCat (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Jun 2025 – Gorgonocephalus caputmedusae (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Medusa's head by Blockhaj (t · c); see discussion
• 30 May 2025 – Yao Yuanjun (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Death of Yao Yuanjun by Amigao (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 17 May 2025 – Alcyonacea (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Pmronchi (t · c); see discussion
• 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

AfDs

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Animal

Naming conventions

See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style § Animals, plants, and other organisms; and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna)

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 talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message indicating why they are receiving the award.

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.