Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights

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A WikiProject is a group of pages devoted to the management of a topic or family of topics within Wikipedia.

The aim of WikiProject Animal rights is to educate readers and editors about the concept of animal rights and the animal rights movement. Animal rights has been described as one of the central philosophical issues of our time. The idea of extending personhood to non-human animals is supported by a number of philosophers and legal scholars, and there is increasing support among academics for the award of basic rights to other members of the great ape family. Several political parties representing the interests of animals have been founded in Europe and North America, and in Austria each province must appoint an animal solicitor who can initiate court proceedings on behalf of animals.

This is therefore an interesting time to be exploring the issue. It's an exciting period for supporters of the movement, because the status of human beings at the moral pinnacle of the natural world faces serious challenge for the first time. It's challenging for those who rely on the use of animals in research or in industry. It's therefore a topic that can provoke strong feelings. The aim of this project is to ensure that Wikipedia's coverage is not informed by those strong feelings, but by disinterested, neutral, and reliable research.

The project encompasses:

1. Academics, writers, and activists who work on animal rights/liberation
2. The philosophy of animal rights, including issues such as speciesism, animal law, animal cognition
3. Areas of concern such as factory farming and animal testing
4. Vegetarianism, veganism, and other animal-conscious lifestyles
5. Animal rights/liberation groups, such as British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
6. Leaderless resistance movements, such as the Animal Liberation Front, and ad hoc campaigns, such as SPEAK

To add that an article is part of WikiProject Animal rights, add {{WikiProject Animal rights}} or {{WPAR}} to the talk page. You can fill in the parameters by adding e.g. {{WPAR|class=B|importance=high}}. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights/Assessment for information about assessing articles. Example:

Animal rights Start‑class High‑importance

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Animal rights, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of animal rights on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Animal rightsWikipedia:WikiProject Animal rightsTemplate:WikiProject Animal rightsAnimal rights Start This article has been rated as Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. High This article has been rated as High-importance on the project's importance scale.

This user participates in WikiProject Animal rights.

To add the project tag to your user page, write {{user wpar}}.

To add the AR stub template, write {{animal-rights-stub}}.

• {{Animal rights}}, also called {{Alibend}} (see end of this page) should contain the key people, movements, issues.
• {{Animal testing}} is for key people and issues related to animal testing – there may be some overlap between this and the AR template. Or {{Animal testing navbox}} to add the same template to the end of the page.

To add the Animal rights template, type {{Alibend}}, or {{Animal rights}}. To add the animal testing templates, type {{animal testing}} and {{Animal testing navbox}}.

{{Animal rights barnstar}} is awarded to recognize great devotion in the creation and maintenance of high quality articles related to animal rights. Use {{subst:Animal rights barnstar|message ~~~~}} to award this barnstar.

		WikiProject Animal rights Barnstar
		Awarded to recognize great devotion in the creation and maintenance of high quality articles related to animal rights. Thank you!

• Category:Animal rights (parent category) – for the concept and relevant issues
• Category:Animal rights movement – for AR groups, campaigns, and leaderless resistance movements
• Category:Animal rights activists – for notable AR advocates (and Category:Animal rights scholars for notable AR scholars)
• Category:Animal testing – people, companies, and events related to animal testing
• Category:Animal rights stubs – for AR stubs.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Animal Animal-related deletion discussions

Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? (DYN) box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72-hour time limit from the creation of the article.

Animal rights articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	4	4			10
FM					1		1
GA	2	5	5	20		1	33
B	14	39	49	60		2	164
C	14	82	185	295		13	589
Start	7	33	181	622	1	12	856
Stub		6	34	138		9	187
List	1	5	8	9			23
Category					329		329
Disambig					1		1
File					15		15
Project					12		12
Redirect			6	15	40		61
Template					21		21
NA					1		1
Other					20		20
Assessed	38	172	472	1,163	441	37	2,323
Unassessed			1			10	11
Total	38	172	473	1,163	441	47	2,334
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 8,316			Ω = 4.52

The Wikiproject has an assessment program to categorize the articles within its scope. An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Animal rights}} project banner on its talk page. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights/Assessment for more information.

• Table of articles
• Explanation of article grading system

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 15 December 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

• An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory
• Political Animals and Animal Politics
• Brown Dog affair
• Hare coursing
• Paul McCartney

• Alasdair Cochrane
• Animal Rights Without Liberation
• Animal welfare
• Animal testing
• Temple Grandin
• Dennis Rodman
• Heather Mills
• John Hadley (philosopher)
• Linda McCartney
• R. Madhavan
• PETA satirical browser games

These articles have been selected for one or more release versions of Wikipedia. Please help ensure that they remain of the highest possible quality.

• Animal Liberation Front
• Paul McCartney

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