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.

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

Did you know

• 13 Jan 2026 – Craig (elephant) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Thriley (t · c); see discussion

Categories for discussion

• 02 Feb 2026 – Category:Extinct animals of the United States (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by An anonymous username, not my real name (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Jan 2026 – Category:Vertebrates by year of formal description (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Solidest (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Jan 2026 – Category:Starfish by year of formal description (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Solidest (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Jan 2026 – Category:Sponges by year of formal description (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Solidest (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Jan 2026 – Category:Nematodes by year of formal description (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Solidest (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Jan 2026 – Category:Chordates by year of formal description (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Solidest (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Jan 2026 – Category:Cephalopods by year of formal description (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Solidest (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Jan 2026 – Category:Echinoderms by year of formal description (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Solidest (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Jan 2026 – Category:Cnidarians by year of formal description (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Solidest (t · c); see discussion
• 25 Jan 2026 – Category:Chitons by year of formal description (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Solidest (t · c); see discussion

(2 more...)

Featured article candidates

• 02 Jan 2026 – Intraproboscis (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Mattximus (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 22 Jan 2026 – Aquatic locomotion (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 05 Feb 2026 – Petting of animals (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Petting by Howardcorn33 (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 29 Aug 2025 – Diapsid (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion
• 06 Jun 2025 – Alcyonacea (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Robby (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

Articles for creation

• 07 Feb 2026 – Draft:Dolphin 1 animal (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Gone Extinct (t · c)
• 10 Jan 2026 – Draft:Shira (dog) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by PlanetChatty (t · c)
• 09 Jan 2026 – Draft:Donkey King (TV series) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Oplove1 (t · c)
• 07 Feb 2026 – Draft:Savage Tetra (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Savagetetramybeloved (t · c) was moved to Draft:Hyphessobrycon savagei (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) (author) on 07 Feb 2026
• 04 Feb 2026 – Draft:Eudora Wildlife Safari Park (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Kornelia Rudkowska at Emily Revolutionary Marketing Group (t · c) was declined by KeyolTranslater (t · c) on 05 Feb 2026
• 27 Jan 2026 – Draft:Perisoreinae (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Kitokat (t · c) was accepted to Perisoreinae (talk · edit · hist) by Ozzie10aaaa (t · c) on 06 Feb 2026
• undated – Draft:Aphanostoma pulchra (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC was accepted to Aphanostoma pulchra (talk · edit · hist) by Hurricane Wind and Fire (t · c) on 05 Feb 2026

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.

• 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.

• 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

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.