Talk:Izak catshark/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: J Milburn (talk • contribs • count ) 20:53, 7 September 2011 (UTC)

Hope you don't mind me taking on this one, too- just to reiterate, you're completely welcome to ask me to take a step back if you feel an article would benefit from a review from someone else. J Milburn (talk) 20:54, 7 September 2011 (UTC)


 * "of catshark, family Scyliorhinidae," If you're looking to imply that "catshark" and "Scyliorhinidae" are synonymous, which is what our article implies, perhaps brackets/parenthesis would be the way to go, the same as with "The Izak catshark (or simply Izak, Holohalaelurus regani)"
 * Maybe, though I prefer the commas as I think having multiple parentheses in the first line looks bad.
 * Perhaps then a link to Scyliorhinidae in the lead? J Milburn (talk) 15:59, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Added.
 * "The Izak catshark is not utilized by humans. It is regularly caught incidentally by a bottom trawl commercial fishery within its range, but despite the fishing pressure its population has been increasing." I think this could read a little better
 * Rearranged the sentences
 * "off the west coast, in areas with a wider continental shelf." Both the areas listed? Or are they the same thing? It's not clear right now.
 * Rearranged it to make it clearer
 * "This species often has nematode and/or flatworm parasites in its stomach." I'm not sure "and/or" is great writing
 * Changed to "and"s, which I feel is semantically less precise but such is style.
 * "(see below)" Avoid self references
 * Removed
 * "and/or" Again
 * "Nevertheless, it merits continued population monitoring because of its highly restricted range." This is something of a judgement rather than a fact; could it perhaps be attributed in the prose?
 * Merged with previous sentence to attribute to the IUCN
 * "Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds." These names are given in a different way to others.
 * That's a function of the FishBase template; I can replace it manually if it's a sticky issue
 * Consistency would be good. J Milburn (talk) 15:59, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
 * OK, replaced with manual version.
 * What does "Izak" mean?
 * Don't have any info on this, other than it's apparently a proper noun of some sort

I've added some categories and made some small edits, but, for the most part, this one's looking about right. I'm also going to take a look through some sources to see if there's anything you've missed/any other sources that should be included. J Milburn (talk) 21:27, 7 September 2011 (UTC)


 * Let me know of further issues. -- Yzx (talk) 03:53, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The article's looking very nice. A search around threw up nothing of note that wasn't in the article. Ticks all the boxes, I'm promoting now- Good work! J Milburn (talk) 21:53, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the review. -- Yzx (talk) 23:23, 11 September 2011 (UTC)