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Sharpnose Shiner

 * ... that the Brazos River habitat of the Sharpnose Shiner (pictured) is being changed by inflow from lake reservoirs including that of the Possum Kingdom?
 * Reviewed: Not a self-nom

5x expanded by Tortie tude (talk). Nominated by Rcej (talk) at 07:31, 18 November 2013 (UTC).


 * Symbol question.svg Length is good at 2893 characters (especially compared to pre-expansion size of 140 characters), and nominated within a day of expansion. I saw no copyright problems (including the image, but it's so tiny that I'd advise against its use), so no major work is needed.  Hook is in article, short enough (a little under 150 characters), and properly cited.  However, I am unable to pass the article at this time, due to minor citation problems: I am unable to find anything whatsoever about the animal species it eats.  The situation would be far simpler if you added the relevant page number to each citation of source 1; you can do this by producing a separate citation for each page (tons of work) or by using the rp template (far easier).  If you want to go the latter route but aren't familiar with it, you can see how I've used it for citations 2, 3, and 7 of Kolmer Site.  Nyttend (talk) 13:30, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. It's on page 3 under Habitat, but I just went and got the original paper they cited and put that instead. Also could we make the title sharpnose shiner instead of Sharpnose Shiner? I thought we only capitalized bird names, and I guess the lepidoptera people like to capitalize butterfly names, but I thought fish common names were supposed to be lower case. I'd really prefer the scientific name in the title, but the fish people seem to have agreed that the common name is ok for those. Tortie tude (talk) 17:06, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Ready to go, since the diet is definitely sourced properly. I'm sorry for having to make you come back, but I just couldn't find it in the original.  I'd like to see page numbers being cited, but that's not a big enough issue to hold back the nomination.  Meanwhile, the names appear to be ambiguous.  In the first 200 results for Category:IUCN Red List vulnerable species, everything's Genericname specificname (or Whatevername whatevername) except for the birds, the Adamson's Grunter, and the African Blind Barb Fish.  On the other hand, Category:Notropis has lots of fish named "Shiner" instead of "shiner".  Perhaps a discussion at WikiProject Fishes is in order?  Nyttend (talk) 04:21, 24 November 2013 (UTC)