The resulting WikiProject was created at Wikipedia:WikiProject Rodents
Wikipedia:WikiProject Rodents
Wikipedia:Rodents
A WikiProject whose scope would include the several hundreds of species in the order Rodentia. Would absorb the defunct WP:WikiProject Squirrels, being a child of WP:MAMMAL. Targeted articles for immediate improvement would be Brown Rat and Eastern Gray Squirrel (the latter hosting a featured picture). -ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 20:51, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Please specify whether or not you would join the project.
As half of all mammal species yet often considered less charismatic, rodents require a certain measure of effort that I'm not sure is dealt with in the context of WP:Mammals. I suspect that most users there are generally not paying particular attention to the rodents. Just maintaining the article pages in light of taxonomic revision and new species is an effort. A centralized location for the core of users interested in the lesser fpcused-on half of mammals could really aid in improving the quality of these articles. --Aranae (talk) 00:34, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I've gone and created the WP:RODENT page - something about rodent in all caps is a little unsettling. While nowhere near complete with talk-page banners, assessments, and all that jazz, I think it has a good start with it's to-do list, and maybe we can come up with some goals (easy ones like bringing a high-priority start-class up to a B, or picking a GA even). This proposal has met the minimum of 5 participants in only a couple days (although I plastered the whole town with fliers), so I have a good feeling we can at least start with a good foundation :) Anyone wishing to leave a comment at the project's talk page, just take down the ((under construction)) banner. i'm curious to see what kind of momentum we can get going. i'll go ahead and be slowly bringing all the bells and whistles online (i'd hate to put in a lot of work on just the project side only to watch it fizzle), but of course i welcome help from anyone else who likes doing that sort of thing (i've already been looking into merely expanding functionality on the ((mammal)) template to facilitate an essential absorbtion of many of their articles). Cheers! --ΖαππερΝαππερ BabelAlexandria 19:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]