Wikipedia:WikiProject Animal rights



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

Article talk page tags
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. . See WikiProject Animal rights/Assessment for information about assessing articles. Example:

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

Stubs
To add the AR stub template, write.

Article templates

 * 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, or. To add the animal testing templates, type and.

Animal rights barnstar
Animal rights barnstar is awarded to recognize great devotion in the creation and maintenance of high quality articles related to animal rights. Use  to award this barnstar.

Categories

 * 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.
 * WikiProject Deletion sorting/Animal Animal-related deletion discussions

Did You Know (DYK)s
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.

Article assessment statistics
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 WikiProject Animal rights/Assessment for more information.




 * Table of articles
 * Explanation of article grading system

Featured articles

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

Good articles

 * 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

Version 1.0 Editorial Team
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

Participants

 * 1) User :Qwerty number1
 * 2) Ilikeguys21 (talk)
 * 3) JWSchmidt
 * 4) Localzuk (talk)
 * 5) Nrets
 * 6) User:Rbogle
 * 7) SlimVirgin (talk)
 * 8) Ultimaterasengan
 * 9) The Ungovernable Force
 * 10) TBC TaLk?!?
 * 11) Francis Tyers ·
 * 12) David Olivier
 * 13) Bill Huston (talk)
 * 14) Eddie Mars
 * 15) Doktor Who
 * 16) Trent
 * 17) liberalufp
 * 18) vegetarian
 * 19) MaynardClark (talk)
 * 20) Tangerines
 * 21) Bob98133
 * 22) PatPeter 16:56, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 23) User:tprayx
 * 24) John Carter
 * 25) Elle (talk) 01:03, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 26) User:Hroðulf
 * 27) Sandahl
 * 28) Sandris
 * 29) devotchka
 * 30) Vuerqex
 * 31) Akhran (talk)
 * 32) PhilKnight (talk)
 * 33) Caturdayz
 * 34) User: SenatorSteve (talk)
 * 35) User:Belugaboy535136 talk  14:28, 17 January 2010 (UTC) - retired
 * 36) STSC
 * 37) Yakushima (talk) 10:40, 10 August 2011 (UTC)
 * 38)  Miniapolis  ( talk )
 * 39) Gobonobo
 * 40) Ian Mcdonald
 * 41) J Milburn
 * 42) Rasnaboy (talk) 07:13, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 43) jessfriis
 * 44) LL221W
 * 45) GSMaklary
 * 46) Hyzenthrose
 * 47) PitbullAJWarriorsSurvivorsLover (talk) 14:11, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
 * 48) Samwalton9
 * 49) Karneee907
 * 50) Pandelver
 * 51) Throughthemind
 * 52) Puduḫepa
 * 53) Splinemath (talk) 16:36, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
 * 54) Psychologist Guy
 * 55) BrikDuk
 * 56) (sdsds - talk) 06:23, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * 57) --3erres (talk) 17:09, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
 * 58) Bhagya sri113 (talk) 14:46, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
 * 59) ~ ★ nmaia d 14:44, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
 * 60) Trimton (talk) 23:32, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
 * 61) MonsieurD
 * 62) Yrw.nova (talk) 08:27, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 63) Dissoxciate (talk) 09:13, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 64) KingAntenor (talk) 19:30, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * 65) Pacifio (talk) 06:47, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) MonsieurD
 * 2) Yrw.nova (talk) 08:27, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 3) Dissoxciate (talk) 09:13, 12 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 4) KingAntenor (talk) 19:30, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
 * 5) Pacifio (talk) 06:47, 12 February 2023 (UTC)