User talk:MantaRays

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Coral reef
I have reverted your deletions on coral reef. If you want to delete well cited material from articles you should first raise the matter for discussion on the article's talk page. For example, the source you dismissed on the use of sunscreens has been cited by 90 other publications, and appears to be currently the subject of ongoing research. You claim, in addition, that ecotourism in the Great Barrier Reef, and that more generally blast fishing and the use of poisons are no longer threats to coral reefs, but you do not cite any review papers that support your claims. It is possible that you are correct, but you need to provide verification in the form of reliable sources that support your claims. Otherwise, you are engaged in original research which is against Wikipedia policy. --Epipelagic (talk) 21:27, 11 February 2015 (UTC)