Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals

WikiProject Mammals
Founded 28 February 2004
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Welcome to WikiProject Mammals, a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to mammals. If you identify as a mammal and would like to help, please see below and inquire on the talk page.

Our goals

• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of mammals by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
• To serve as the central point of mammals-related article discussion.
• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles about mammals.

Our scope

WikiProject Mammals focuses on all mammals, whether common or obscure, living or extinct.

What can you do?

• Add your name to the list of Participants and get started!
• Look at the navigation box on the right and see what needs doing in the "Tasks" List.
• Join the Assessment Department and help review article standards and quality.
• Add this userbox to your user page {{User WikiProject Mammals}}
• Join other Projects like WikiProject Animals

News

Did you know

• 01 Dec 2025 – Nubian ibex (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Bbreslau (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 29 Nov 2025 – List of mammoth specimens (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Hemiauchenia (t · c) was closed as keep by Left guide (t · c) on 14 Dec 2025; see discussion (10 participants; relisted)

Categories for discussion

• 11 Dec 2025 – Category:Black bears (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Dec 2025 – Category:American black bears (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Dec 2025 – Category:Tigers in literature (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by WinstonDewey (t · c); see discussion

Featured list candidates

• 01 Dec 2025 – List of octodontids (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by PresN (t · c); see discussion
• 18 Nov 2025 – List of capromyids (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by PresN (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 07 Dec 2025 – Choeropotamus (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion
• 07 Dec 2025 – Dichobune (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion
• 11 Nov 2025 – Uintatherium (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Borophagus (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 06 Dec 2025 – Camelid (talk · edit · hist) move request to Camelidae by Hemiauchenia (t · c) was moved to Camelidae (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 13 Dec 2025; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 18 Mar 2024 – Gazelle (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Maykii (t · c); see discussion

Editing activity

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 24 February 2024.

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Edits	Article	Rating
33	Bartonella	Start
33	Cheetah	GA
30	List of deomyines	List
24	List of sigmodontines	List
19	Tayassu	Stub
18	Vishnuictis	B
15	2025 in paleomammalogy	List
15	Mammalia in the 10th edition of Systema Naturae	List
14	Lion	FA
13	List of mammals of New Brunswick	List

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Subprojects and work group

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/Bats Task Force
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Cetaceans (inactive)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Dogs
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Monotremes and Marsupials (inactive)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Primates
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Rodents (semi-active)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mammals/Weasels work group (inactive)

Departments

• Assessment
• Collaboration
• Most Popular pages

Guidelines

The Third edition of Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World (2005) is the basis for the taxonomic framework used by WikiProject Mammals. The MSW3 classification may be overridden by the conclusions of more recent studies which are widely accepted in secondary sources. MSW3 listings can be found online at the Bucknell University here. (Note: there are some differences between the print edition and the online database. For instance, the online database shows three subspecies of dhole whereas the print edition lists seven.)

The Mammal Diversity Database is a new resource that reflects taxonomic changes since the publication of MSW3. It is accepted practice to override the MSW3 taxonomy if both the Mammal Diversity Database and IUCN agree on the change.[1]