Wikipedia:WikiProject Marine life/Collaboration of the month

The aim of the Marine life is to improve the quality of Wikipedia's Marine life articles through widespread cooperative editing. It is our hope that some of these will go on to become featured articles.

Each week a Marine Life Collaboration of the month will be picked using this page. The winning article will then be the focus of a group effort to improve the article. Any editor, registered or not, can help the collaboration and contribute to the monthly article. Any registered user can nominate an article and can vote for any one of the nominated articles. On the last day of the month, the votes are tallied. For help please see the Marine life WikiProject.

The current collaboration can be found here. Previous collaborations can be found here. Removed nominations can be found here.

Voting
A vote of support for an article shows your commitment to support and aid in collaborating on that specific article if it is chosen. Although you are not required to fulfill that commitment, we ask that you only support articles that you are able to contribute to.

Any registered user is encouraged to vote so long as you abide by the policies of Wikipedia, specifically Sockpuppets.

Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).

To vote for a nomination, edit the nomination and add the following to the bottom of the Support section: # ~ This adds your username and a time stamp to the numbered list item. The vote will look like this:
 * 1) Username 11:00, 21 Feb 2006 (UTC)

If you wish to withdraw your vote, do not remove your vote; instead, add an asterisk and strike-through tags to your vote as shown: This allows Wikipedia to correctly calculate the remaining votes and will appear like this:
 * 1)  *  Username 11:00, 21 Feb 2006 (UTC)  


 * 1) Username 8:00, 21 Feb 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) * Username 11:00, 21 Feb 2006 (UTC)
 * 3) Username 2:00, 22 Feb 2006 (UTC)

Ties
In case of a tie, voting will be extended for 24 hours. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins. During the extended voting period the old collaboration of the week should still be active.

How to nominate an article
Note to contributors: To add a new nomination, please:
 * (1) Copy the template below
 * (2) Paste it at the bottom of the list of nominations
 * (3) Replace "[Date]" with the correct date and "[Date + 7 days]" with the date, plus seven days. For both, the year is not necessary.
 * (4) Sign your user name with the directions in the template and add a comment for why the article should be nominated.
 * (5) Please preview your addition to make it sure all information is properly filled in and the links are working.

article name with double-brackets surrounding it

 * Nominated [Date] ; needs 3 votes by  [Date + 7 days]  (minimum 3 votes per week)

Support:
 * 1) [your user name--use '~']--any comments you have