Wikipedia:WikiProject Cryptozoology

WikiProject Cryptozoology WikiProject Cryptozoology Founded 16 June 2006 Previous Coordinators Kendroche Twinsday General information Main page Wikimedia Commons Talk Talk page Open tasks Departments Assessment Resources Project category Welcome to the Cryptozoology WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to cryptozoology, a pseudoscience and subculture. Goals The goal of this WikiProject is to improve coverage of cryptozoology on English Wikipedia Scope This project covers notable figures and topics related to the subculture, its history, geographical diffusion, and related places and people. We will specifically deal with all articles contained in the Category:Cryptozoology and its subcategories. What Wikiproject Cryptozoology is not While cryptozoology is a fringe topic, this project (like all others) is not a pro-fringe view platform (See WP:FRINGE). This WikiProject is not a platform for pseudoscience adherents to promote fringe views. That said, all users are welcome to contribute and are invited to do so according to Wikipedia guidelines. Cryptozoology recent changes Cryptozoology talkpages Articles in Category:Cryptids Articles in Category:Cryptozoology Articles in Category:Cryptozoologists Guidelines This project shall follow the most applicable page of the Wikipedia:Manual of Style and comply with WP:Fringe and WP:UNDUE when active on articles.. Related projects Wikipedia:WikiProject Animals Wikipedia:WikiProject Biology Wikipedia:WikiProject Dinosaurs Wikipedia:WikiProject Mythology Wikipedia:WikiProject Palaeontology Wikipedia:WikiProject Paranormal Departments Assessment - the assessment unit. The Nessie Barnstar If a fellow editor makes a worthy contribution to Cryptozoology related article(s) or increases awareness of our project, give them this barnstar with a nice message by inserting the following line of text to recognize them in an appropriate way. {{The Nessie Barnstar|message ~~~~}} The Nessie Barnstar message --~~~~ Membership Userboxes This user participates in WikiProject Cryptozoology. By User:Kendroche and User:TNstingray Users who are interested in WikiProject Cryptozoology may add their username here as members. Members may also add {{User WikiProject Cryptids}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of this project. Users can also display this advertisement on their page. Wikipedia ads file info – #239 Articles Full list of WikiProject Cryptozoology articles Featured articles Featured articles Megalodon Thylacine Good articles (GA] Good articles Good articles Yeren Articlebot alerts Redirects for discussion 21 Oct 2026 – Pitt Lake giant (talk · edit · hist) →Bigfoot was RfDed by Myceteae (t · c); see discussion 21 Oct 2026 – Pitt Lake Giant (talk · edit · hist) →Bigfoot was RfDed by Myceteae (t · c); see discussion Articles for creation 09 Oct 2026 – Draft:Laurieddhu (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Provanon (t · c) 02 Oct 2026 – Draft:Cryptozoologicon: Volume 1 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Gone Extinct (t · c) 03 Oct 2026 – Draft:Rhinoceros dolphin (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Gone Extinct (t · c) was accepted to Rhinoceros dolphin (talk · edit · hist) by MSK (t · c) on 20 Oct 2026 Hot articles Edits Article Rating 20 List of alleged extraterrestrial beings List 19 Patterson–Gimlin film B 14 Rhinoceros dolphin B 11 The Little Mermaid (TV series) C 8 Capturing Bigfoot Start 6 Jersey Devil Start 6 Tsuchinoko Start 5 Bigfoot B 5 Mokele-mbembe Start 5 Rat king C 5 Skunk ape C 5 White River Monster Stub Formerly recognized content Former featured articles Delisted Good Articles Departments Assessment - rates articles within the scope of this project for quality and importance. Collaboration and review WP:Article Creation and Improvement Drive Peer review Templates Stubs {{Cryptozoology-stub}} looks like this: NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Wikipedia:Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted. Other templates {{WikiProject Cryptozoology}} should be put on relevant articles. It looks like this: {{WikiProject Cryptozoology invite}} looks like this: Categories Category:Cryptids Category:Cryptozoology Category:Cryptozoologists Category:Dragons Category:Legendary animals Category:Mythology Category:Paranormal A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects. Tools Main tool page: toolserver.org Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references Checklinks - Edit and repair external links Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links. Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.