Wikipedia:WikiProject Fishing/Proposals

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Fishing industry → Commercial Fishing
Proposal: Change Category:Fishing industry to Category:Commercial fishing
 * This would better compare to Category:Recreational fishing. ENeville 01:36, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I think this would be better as well themcman1 (help me with my sig)  14:15, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

✅ themcman1  talk 12:04, 23 June 2007 (UTC)

Fishing techniques
Proposal: Add Category:Recreational fishing techniques and Category:Comercial fishing techniques
 * Some techniques would be in both, but it would seem a techniques category is needed and that a distinction between recreational and commercial would be useful. ENeville 01:36, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Fishing for (species)
Whether articles should exist on fishing for a given species, e.g. Fishing for pike
 * I'm inclined to think that these should be part of the page for that animal, e.g. Pike. However, if they do exist, they would seem to merit a category.  ENeville 01:36, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
 * How about a small fishing section in each of the existing fish species/genus articles. For example, the northern pike article can have a "northern pike as gamefish" section. And if the section is getting too long, or if fishing of pikes is really significant and has unique techniques, you can always expand it into a seperate article later with a "Main article: Fishing for pike" notice on the northern pike and other pike articles. Cheers,
 * --Melanochromis 18:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC) (edited my comment on 21 January 2006).

Commercial fishing infobox
Perhaps an infobox detailing the yearly tonnage of fish caught, quotas (if enforced), to give an at a glance summary of the commercial fishing of a species? I have thrown together a crude mock-up here to illustrate what I mean. Bass fishing physicist 18:35, 4 May 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for helping us out... Personally, I think that's a good idea and let's see what else we can do about that. Bu b0y2007 02:04, 5 May 2007 (UTC)

Other suggestions (WikiProject)

 * I suggest that the External Links section be checked properly and that those links that are not supposed to be included here should be removed because of issues like commercial link, deadlink, spamlink, and other related issues alike.


 * I am currently working on an article and I am still deciding on its title, possible titles could be Environmental Issues of Fishing, Environmental Impacts of Fishing, Environmental Effects of Fishing. In line with this, I am suggesting that the said article would be included as a section or a separate page, whichever is applicable. Thank you! Bu b0y2007 06:15, 19 April 2007 (UTC) - done (as of May 2, 2007)

(Please feel free to add more Fishing related/associated articles to be included under this project --> IMPORTANT: Only related articles should be included)
 * I also suggest to add the following articles and place the Fishing WikiProject tag:
 * Sport Fishing - merged to Fishing by Arkyan
 * Fishing Line and associated articles - done (as of May 2, 2007)
 * Braided fishing line - done (as of May 2, 2007)
 * Fly Fishing - done (as of May 2, 2007)
 * Monofilament fishing line - done (as of May 2, 2007)
 * Multifilament fishing line - done (as of May 2, 2007)
 * Fishery - done (as of May 3, 2007)


 * Its about time to put this task which is the need to lessen the size of the Fishing article without loosing any of the important information in our priority list. This move is still apart of our move to objective to thoughtfully organize articles on fishing (see WikiProject Fishing). I would like to ask for your (each and everyone concerned) help, assistance, and approval for this move. I am planning to do the following revisions right after your approval:
 * Truncate the Fishing nets section and link it to its existing main article by placing the tag: Main article: Fishing net before the paragraph. The information that will be removed from this section will be transfered to Fishing net, in this way, the Fishing net article will be expanded. - done as of 5/9/2007
 * The Dredging section will be connected to Dredging's Fishing section. Further expansion to Dredging's Fishing section will then be done.
 * Truncate the Fishing lines section and and link it to its existing main article by placing the tag: Main article: Fishing line before the paragraph. The information that will be removed from this section will be transfered to Fishing line, in this way, the Fishing line article will be expanded. done as of 5/17/2007
 * I am currently doing an article, Kite fishing. Right after this is done and approved. I am also planning to truncate the Kite fishing section and link it to the main article which I am currently creating by placing the tag: Main article: Kite fishing before the paragraph. The information that will be removed from this section will be added to Kite fishing.
 * I wish to create another article for Modern Fishing and shortly discuss Recreational fishing, Sport fishing, Commercial fishing, and other subcategories regarding Modern fishing. These subcategories will then be linking to there existing main articles. Thank you and more power to us all. Bu b0y2007 05:37, 2 May 2007 (UTC)


 * To Do List: Checking on every Fishing-related articles and its sections (such as but not limited to External Links and the like),this inludes those articles with tags. Bu b0y2007 06:14, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Fishing industry

Fishing Award?
On giving someone a Barnstar the other day, I found that there are various awards for certain WikiProjects. I know we're kind of young, but is there any interest in having a Fishing Project award? Laughing Vulcan Laugh With Me /   Logical Entries 02:20, 1 June 2007 (UTC)


 * I see nothing wrong with your proposal. It's a great idea... Bu b0y2007 06:00, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I think that we should get a few people to create some 'drafts', then have a vote on it. I'd like to have a go, but my experience in graphical tools is limited! If someone has come across a graphics designer while editing can you ask them to have a go! themcman1  Talk 15:23, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Or if you are on yourself! themcman1  Talk 15:23, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd agree that we should ask for some drafts and try to reach consensus on one of them. I've played around a lot with various graphic design tools and elements, but I'm far from anybody's notion of a graphic designer.  I've got an idea or two I'd like to play with (something along the lines of a Barnstar, but the points being a hook with eye at 10:00, texas-rigged worm or plastic worm ends at 7:00 and 5:00, rod at 2:00, superimposed on a fish with dorsal spine at 12:00) I'm all for asking for some help, too.   Laughing Vulcan  18:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * How are you with the Barnstar/s sir... Bu b0y2007 08:01, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Article Ratings
I noticed that the unassessed article count just jumped up to 170... Looks like Themcman1 got assistance of a bot to help us find aritcles (kewl!)  My question is if anybody else wants to pool up to systematically rate all the new articles. I've been adding my own assessments here and there, but I'm wondering if teaming up would help produce a better consensus and more accurate ratings. Laughing Vulcan 18:22, 3 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah. I thought it might help us tag a 'few' more articles. Maybe we could have a two week assesment drive? What does everyone else think? themcman1  Talk 12:26, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Proposal To Turn Fly Fishing into A Summary Article
The current nature of Fly Fishing is so extensive and complex that a single article cannot do it justice. This is evident by much of the very specialized content the article contains now, while there is a complete lack of coverage on many other relevant fly fishing topics.

Wikipedia Summary Style: WP:SS provides a useful way to deal with these broad and complex subjects. In a way the process has already started with the section on the Artificial fly and I am personnally working in a History of Fly fishing article. If others agree and can jump in, much of the current content on Fly fishing for trout and well as equipment can be spiit out into separate articles and summarized in this article. With the addition of Geronimo20's navigation templates, turning the fly fishing article into a Summary article seems like the right thing to do. It doesn't have to be accomplished overnight, but if there is concensus, we can proceed to pursue transition to a Summary style article.--Mike Cline (talk) 14:50, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

I put this proposal on the fly fishing talk page last month, but it got no notice or traction. Maybe it will here!--Mike Cline (talk) 13:14, 16 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Strongly agree. This is the way to go with complex articles. Fly-fishing is one of the more prominent articles within the scope of this project. It receives over 17,000 hits a month, and warrants putting this sort of effort into it. It is an approach Mangostar recently initiated on the fishing article, and an approach which I am trying to shepherd to some sort of completion there. --Geronimo20 (talk) 08:42, 19 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Now all we need is someone to step up and work on a few of the new articles: Fly fishing for trout comes immediately to mind--Mike Cline (talk) 18:15, 21 April 2008 (UTC)


 * In a continuing effort to improve the readibility of the fly fishing article by transitioning it to Summary Style, I have created an article: Fly fishing tackle. Content relative to tackle in the fly fishing article has been moved in mass to that article.  The Fly fishing tackle article needs additional content, improvement and better sourcing which should be easier now that it has its own article.--Mike Cline (talk) 15:48, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

==Proposal To Turn Salmon flies in Artificial flies into Link to an Independent, More Extensive Salmon Flies Article, Linking in Turn to to Individual Histories and Dressings of Major Individual Patterns==

I have a lot of historical information which I think I ought to be sharing via Wikipedia. The current format needs significant expansion and elaboration, in my view, for these purposes. Venator48 (talk) 18:40, 9 February 2016 (UTC)


 * There is nothing preventing this. Write the articles first. --Mike Cline (talk) 06:59, 10 February 2016 (UTC)