Talk:Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972

1972
"of 1972" is part of the official designation of this Act. Notice the quotation within the Act itself:
 * Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,[33 U.S.C. 1401 nt] That this Act may be cited as the "Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972".

Having demonstrated this fact, please do not move this page to another name.My76Strat (talk) 02:16, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Pictures
I will add one section of the animals and marine plants that this act has protected over the course of the years. I would like to add a table showing the different toxic levels from the places that were used as dumping waste before and after the act was enforced. The article looks simple without any pictures. Adding some pictures would make it look more interesting and appealing.I will add a new section about the guidelines that researches need to follow in order to be approved. Also, i will fix some of the references that need full citation. I would like to translate this article in Spanish. Hrojas01 (talk) 17:30, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Review of Edits Made for project
It looks like you have made substantial changes to the page, and at first glance it is definitely looking better since the project started. The table with the laws is an awesome resource to keep track of the timeline and specifications of the law. The section where the agencies in charge of specific duties was also informative, I had no idea that different agencies were in charge of different aspects of marine clean up. I also found it super interesting/scary that the government can issue permits for "emergency" ocean dumping, If there was any more info on that it would make for an excellent addition to the page. Have they ever issued the permits before? if so where? The additional citations make the article so much more professional looking, and the internal wiki links add lots to the ease of navigating in and out of the page. Adding more on the international efforts to keep the oceans clean would be another idea, since it is only briefly mentioned in the article. So far i think the edits have definitely cleaned up the formatting of the page, and the table was a great way to tie things together. Have you considered looking through free use pictures? A few pictures would give the page some color and make it less tedious to read through, as most all text articles are. Lookin good, ill keep tracking to see how it ends up! Jonathandemart (talk) 01:08, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

So far the additions to this article have been major improvements to the previous status of the page. Although this page still needs much work I think you are off to a good start. You may want to reconsider the organization of the information/data being placed in the article. Providing internal links will help readers navigate easily and better understand what is being stated so try and do that whenever you add something that may not be defined properly. References look good as well just make sure to cite appropriately when making new contributions because in-text citations are required. Other than that the only other thing I have noticed is that there are no visual representation in the article so perhaps it would be a good idea to add some wherever possible. Charts/graphs/pictures can help illustrate in-depth concepts. I will most likely check back once more information has been added to the article. I suggest you follow your current sources and dig out facts that pertain directly to the US population and how we can be affected by the changes being made by the act. Adnani89 (talk) 22:13, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Original thought
While I admire the need to have information, most of the before regulation section is lifted directly from http://water.epa.gov/type/oceb/mprsa_before.cfm. almost verbatim. Also needs images to support text, and images that are not linked to peoples blog pages that have since disappeared. Avram Primack (talk) 16:31, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Much of this article is a copypaste
Most of this article is a copy paste from multiple places, most, if not all of which are NOT in the public domain. Should I just be deleting these setions, or trying to fix them? Reverting? If the sections are deleted we might as well delete the article. I'm confused. I see copypaste from: http://water.epa.gov/type/oceb/mprsa_international.cfm

http://njscuba.net/biology/misc_bottom.html#dumps

http://www.texascenter.org/almanac/QUALITYCH2P9.HTML JguyTalkDone 19:38, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Copyright review.
Some of the material was copied from this site I removed it.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  16:27, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

Ditto this site and one other.-- SPhilbrick (Talk)  16:42, 27 July 2013 (UTC)

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