User talk:Ocococo

Just FYI
Ganges shark has been much improved by your input, and I commend you again for all your hard work. You might be interested to know that, thanks to your edits, the article is not far off reaching the five-fold expansion required for a "Did you know?" nomination - if such a nomination was made and accepted, it would mean that the article would appear on Wikipedia's Main Page, driving considerable traffic there and ensuring that lots of people got to see the results of your work. At present, the article needs an additional 3417 bytes of prose (i.e. not links, references or infobox data) to be added within the next 24hrs in order to qualify - that's about 500 words, give or take. You may not be interested - if all you want to do is continue improving the article over time then that's a highly commendable goal, and I wish you well with it. I thought I'd bring this to your attention, though - if you do add enough additional text and want someone to do the nomination for you, let me know and I'd be happy to put it up for DYK on your behalf. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  13:55, 10 December 2012 (UTC)

Dear Yunshui, Many thanks for your comment - that's great news. I'm continuing to update the article today, although it will be a challenge to add another 500 words. Very little is known about this species. My initial literature review produced over 3500 words of content, but once I edited out the duplicate content, only 1500 words remain. I had intented to include more background on the threats to this species, but as these are well described on the Ganges page I thought it more appropriate to link to that section of the page rather than duplicate content. Still, I'll see what I can come up with today. Also - I'm unsure of how to respond to your comments on my talk page (hence the edit tab). There is the Teahouse and our respective talk pages, etc. - so many ways to communicate. So do let me know the best way to reply. Thanks, Ocococo (talk) 15:43, 10 December 2012 (UTC) Hi Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水 I gave it my best shot, but there's just not enough info out there to add the remaining 1,781 bytes needed to qualify. It would just be useless filler. However, I did deepen the number of internal links and added a See also section to the Sharks page. All in all a satisfying exercise. Thanks again, 21:59, 10 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi Ocococo. Not to worry - there's plenty more fish in the sea- er... Ganges... If you reckon you're about done with the Ganges shark, you might want to consider joining the Fishes Wikiproject, which might give you some ideas for other articles that could use your attention.
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 * All the best, and please continue to feel free to drop me a note if you have any Wikipedia-related questions. Yunshui 雲 &zwj; 水  08:43, 11 December 2012 (UTC)