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

• 25 Jun 2025 – Tres Marias cottontail (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Reconrabbit (t · c); see discussion

Categories for discussion

• 07 Jul 2025 – Category:Prehistoric giraffes (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion
• 07 Jul 2025 – Category:Giraffes (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 13 Jul 2025 – European primitive cave lion (talk · edit · hist) →Panthera gombaszogensis was RfDed by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion

Featured article candidates

• 16 Jun 2025 – Sima de los Huesos hominins (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Dunkleosteus77 (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Jun 2025 – African striped weasel (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Olmagon (t · c); see discussion

Featured list candidates

• 06 Jul 2025 – List of geomyids (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by PresN (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Jun 2025 – List of sciurids (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by PresN (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 05 May 2025 – Stenoplesictis (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); see discussion
• 23 Apr 2025 – Plagiolophus (mammal) (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion
• 07 Feb 2025 – Amphimerycidae (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PrimalMustelid (t · c); start discussion
• 10 Jul 2025 – European rabbit (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Reconrabbit (t · c) was promoted by Chiswick Chap (t · c), see discussion

Peer reviews

• 22 Jun 2024 – Brown bear (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Wolverine XI (t · c); 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

17 edits	List of echimyids
13 edits	European rabbit
11 edits	Porcupine
10 edits	Platypus
10 edits	Plionarctos
10 edits	Mary (elephant)
9 edits	Great Lakes-boreal wolf
9 edits	2025 in paleomammalogy
8 edits	Big cat
8 edits	Dusky dolphin

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last three days. Last updated 18 July 2025 by HotArticlesBot.

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]