MyWiki:WikiProject Mammals

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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?

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Look at the navigation box on the right and see what needs doing in the "Tasks" List.
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Editing activity

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

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^[1] whereas the print edition lists seven.^[2])

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]

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