Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals

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 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

• 08 Mar 2026 – Kongamato (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Klbrain (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
• 04 Mar 2026 – Gresham cat hostage taking incident (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by TheTechie (t · c) was closed as keep by Star Mississippi (t · c) on 12 Mar 2026; see discussion (7 participants)

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

Good article nominees

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

Articles to be merged

• 08 Mar 2026 – Psilostomatidae (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Psilostomidae by UtherSRG (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

• 09 Mar 2026 – Draft:Rewilding Coombeshead (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by OC1410 (t · c)
• 18 Feb 2026 – Draft:Ajay Tegala (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by AjayTegala (t · c)
• undated – Draft:Trans Ova Genetics (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
• 09 Mar 2026 – Draft:Jack Hubley (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by RigsTech34 (t · c) was accepted to Jack Hubley (talk · edit · hist) by Mmemaigret (t · c) on 10 Mar 2026
• 07 Mar 2026 – Draft:Linta (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by TeffyRae (t · c) was accepted to Linta be (talk · edit · hist) by Ethmostigmus (t · c) on 08 Mar 2026

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.