Wikipedia:WikiProject Sharks

The project
This WikiProject is about Sharks. The aim of the project is to write a good article of every known shark species out there (all 368 or however many there are :-)), as well as to write articles about shark-specific topics such as biology, etc. (including fiction) articles. Since there are so many sharks and so little is known about most of them, the project will focus on writing good consistent articles for the most common sharks first, and then branch out into articles on lesser-known species. This project would also be a good place to collaborate on other general articles having to do with sharks (scale types, orthodontia, symbiosis, Shark attack, shark POD, etc.)...

Announcements

 * (14/10/2005) Started to work on project page.
 * (29/06/2006) Added to List of proposed projects
 * (29/06/2006) Created Portal:Sharks any help on maintaining it appreciated.
 * (10/08/2006) The project is now moved from user space and is now official!
 * (22/08/2006) Oceanic whitetip shark article was nominated featured article!!
 * (05/09/2006) Collaboration of the Fortnight and assessment pages added.
 * (12/09/2006) New Shark-stub and Category:Shark stubs to replace Fish-stub on shark articles
 * (26/07/2007) Oceanic whitetip shark on the main page!

ToDo
Note that some of the listings here may not need much work - one could regard the lack of standard headings as for making a more "personal" and less boilerplatish article


 * make project page and define goals and priorities
 * make distribution maps! FishBase have distribution map, can get direct link in fishbase names as aquamap for some species, there are a few other places that have also, search in google, trouble is that they are not very consistent :-(
 * Do pages of all families, many done, but still many missing.
 * Fix pages where we have same name on family and a species in that family and now redirects back and forth, make sure we have independent articles for each species and family. (example nurse shark nurse sharks which used to be redirects to each other.
 * Reference articles, most have no references at all in the text.
 * De-redlink pages where there is never (never say never) going to be a page for the species e.g. wobbegong

Requests
Leave any requests you have or have found elsewhere here.

Gordon Hubbell

Shark Behavior

Shark Mythology

List of fatal shark attacks, worldwide

Stubs
These articles are very short and may only include a sentence or two. Have a look at Category:Shark stubs for others.
 * Leonard Compagno - I created this to mend all the redlinks in the references, but I can't say it is more than a stub. Yomangani 10:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Shark Trust

Expand
These articles are not listed as stubs but are only just about long enough to escape being so. Any help expanding these would be appreciated.
 * Finback catshark
 * Slender smooth-hound
 * Proscylliidae

Copyedit/Formatting
These articles may have enough text but are poorly formatted and may have spelling mistakes.
 * Jacques-Yves_Cousteau
 * Hans Hass

Patrol for vandalism
Have a look at the recent changes for the watchlist (pages from Category:Sharks and Category:WikiProject Sharks)

Investigate
Check items needing attention for some problems with articles and possible additions.

Collaboration
The Sharks Collaboration of the Fortnight is a collaborative effort to improve shark-related articles, in order to help them reach featured-article standards. Anyone, no matter what their level of knowledge about sharks, is welcome to lend a hand. Each fortnight, an article is chosen by people interested in the topic, and for the next fortnight the chosen article is worked on, under Wikipedia's principle of collaborative editing. This provides a single article for people to concentrate their efforts on collaboratively.

Article assessment
Article assessment is the process by which shark related articles are sorted into different qualities. Assessment is done through the assessment page.

Starting a new article
Most of the new articles that need to be made are for species. Article titles should be determined using the guidelines at WP:FISH (naming guidelines). If you are unsure which name to use, you can discuss it with other members in the discussion section.

What might be included in a shark article
This is a template shark article with the headers and format of article. Please use and try to reformat the current article so that they look the same, if there are additional headers please add them where appropriate.

Images
Images in JPG or PNG format are very welcome, although the latter format is not as good for photographs. For public domain resources try the American National Oceanic and Atomospheric Administration, particularly the National Marine Fisheries Historic Image Collection. (this is for whales/dolphins, must check if they have shark pictures or find good source)

See the commons category for images: Selachimorpha.

Categories
The top level category for shark articles is Category:Sharks but within this are several other categories that might be more relevant to the article. Listing species under the Order name and Family name as well as Category:Sharks would be best as then it can be found easily.

These are just some of the categories currently in existence, if another category fits the article better you could always make it.


 * Category:Sharks
 * Category:Carcharhiniformes
 * Category:Fictional sharks
 * Category:Heterodontiformes
 * Category:Hexanchiformes
 * Category:Lamniformes
 * Category:Orectolobiformes
 * Category:Pristiophoriformes
 * Category:Squaliformes
 * Category:Squatiniformes

Some other categories (outside Category:Sharks) that may be relevant are:
 * Category:Viviparous fish
 * Category:Ovoviviparous fish
 * Category:Ichthyologists
 * Category:Marine biology
 * Category:Animal anatomy

Talk page template
This template is for adding to the top of talk pages to inform people of the Project. It also serves as an information box communicating to users what the articles status is within the project. For information on using the advanced features see the template disccussion page.

Use:

Shark stub template
Articles that are very short and are classed as a stub should have this template added to the bottom of the page. This also adds the page to Category:Shark stubs.

Use: Shark-stub

Collaboration
This template updates to the current Collaboration of the Fortnight.

Use:

To do
The to do list can be put on any page to keep a track of what needs doing.

Use:

Portal template
Use this template on every article page related to the project. This provides a link to the portal and can be placed underneath the taxobox or in the 'See also' section. On some pages one is already there but can be replaced by this one.

 Use:

Userbox
You can add this userbox to your userspace to tell everyone your interest.

 Use: Wikipedia:WikiProject Sharks/Userbox

Species

 * For a full taxonomic listing of all shark species see the List of sharks
 * All shark articles in wikipedia now also use Category:Sharks, as well as subcategories.
 * Also use Carcharhiniformes, Hexanchiformes, Lamniformes, Orectolobiformes, Pristiophoriformes, Squaliformes, Squatiniformes to find lists of all? sharks.

First list of most 'important' sharks to write good non stub articles about, all these articles have all the basic facts that we want to have (except mostly range maps) BUT they lack a lot of meat (compare oceanic whitetip shark and tiger shark with these articles and try to update them to be as good, use the references links below if you need info and search on google or read in all your good books at home.


 * Basking shark
 * Blacktip reef shark
 * Blue shark
 * Bull shark
 * Gray reef shark
 * Great hammerhead
 * Great white shark
 * Grey nurse shark
 * Shortfin mako shark
 * Oceanic whitetip shark
 * Whale shark
 * Whitetip reef shark
 * Zebra shark


 * A list (not updated) of shark article status

Participants
Add your name to the list if you're interested:
 * 1) Hort4life1222 I am a Great White Shark that is friendly and enjoys researching about them
 * 2) Naiadpress a nereid, not a naiad. proud momager of the Electric Bite Orchestra, an alt-indie-rock band of 8 shark plushies from washington, dc. our album 'Bite the Power' will be out this august.
 * 3) John Troodon Prehistoric
 * 4) Stefan Trying to start this project, but have very little time sometimes ... let's see how it goes.
 * 5) Tomer Some random guy who showed up and started editing the Project page, and would like to see this project get off the ground sooner rather than later. Tom e rtalk  04:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 6) Yomangani - I'll do what I can:sometimes I have a lot of time,sometimes no time at all
 * 7) Oniongirl - I'll do more work on this once I get back from studying bull semen in Texas
 * 8) Chris_huh - I have recently added some maps and new diagrams as well as trying to update the shark page
 * 9) HappyVR 19:08, 26 June 2006 (UTC) - busy with catfish and poeciliidae at the moment. Just hanging around.
 * 10) User:TeaDrinker - Is this where I put a quasi-joking apology for not contributing as much as I should?
 * 11) User:SiobhanHansa - Not sure what I'd be confessing to. I got a response from User:Stefan on the Great white shark page, and felt I ought to start getting more involved.  I'm a total amateur on sharks.  I'm fascinated by whites because I watched jaws when far too young, and now I'm terrified of them, even in the swimming pool :-)  It's a bit pathetic, but gives my friends something to laugh at.  Even so, I'm a good researcher, and happy to do the rote work.  I have several books on Great whites, subscribe to Nature and New Scientist, and have access to the New York Public Library.  So let me know how to help out and I'd be happy to give it my best. --Siobhan Hansa 02:21, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 12) Hokeman - Have worked with Yomangani and Stefan on Tiger shark and Oceanic whitetip shark. I am ready to focus on sharks again. (Had been mainly doing golfer bio's lately.) Start out with proof-reading Whale shark, Basking shark; improving Bull shark; expanding Galapagos shark.--Hokeman 21:19, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 13) User:GrahamBould - I churn out short fish articles. Have finished the shark articles & going back & fleshing them out, no joke intended. Diving/fishing for best part of 50 years now. GrahamBould 14:41, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 14) Paulpro
 * 15) Shark girl I don't know too much about sharks, but I want to learn more. This is a great project, and I'd like to help out.
 * 16) IzzyVanHalen Daaa-dum...daaa-dum...da-dum da-dum da-dum da-dum...
 * 17) Leonard Compagno - I focus mostly on systematics, morphology, evolution, zoogeography and general biology of cartilaginous fishes. The Shark Wiki is excellent and should be supported.
 * 18) User:Spotty11222 I have created the Shark teeth page and I am currently working to expand Lemon sharks and other stub articles.
 * 19) Stephoswalk
 * 20) Paleodude
 * 21) Al Brenneka I am a Lemon Shark Attack Survivor and deal with the effects of shark attacks on the humans attacked/bitten by sharks.
 * 22) LeGenD - I know a lot about sharks and have made useful contributions in many shark articles. Through my efforts, at-least one shark article have reached GA Status and I will continue to make more contributions with passage of time.
 * 23) Philbuck222 - I have a passion and will find good sources to cite my edits
 * 24) pterantula - shark diver & photographer, providing Wiki article pics for white shark & bull shark (formerly tiger shark as well) (I won't be providing more just yet however, as I intend to commercialize my photos); can provide some behavioral feedback on certain species.
 * 25) AUburnTiger (talk) 18:31, 23 January 2009 (UTC) Fascinated about sharks and want help here.
 * 26) Will help when I can.
 * 27) Working on the sharks portal, hope to raise it to featured status.
 * 28) I am in support of this WikiProject.--  Domestic CAT  21:47, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 29) Knight of Gloucestershire - I like sharks. They are fascinating and it's lovely to study about them init?
 * 30) &#39;&#124;  `&#39;/ I&gt; (talk) 02:09, 21 May 2011 (UTC)  — This wikiproject is intresting, since I believe that I belove sharks. There are a few facts that tape into me: I have Jaws (film) on DVD, I own a toy shark, my brother is a swimmer, and that's all.
 * 31) User:Cowdy001 - I am a recreational scuba diver; I recently updated the Protective Oceanic Device article to reflect research by a South Australian Government agency.  Will help when I can.
 * 32)  Passionate about all marine life. BSc Marine Biology
 * 33) Ensignricky Contribute to fish related articles, have an interest in sharks
 * 34) User:Hethokrilliondata
 * 35) User:Jj1691

Other WikiProjects

 * Idea stolen from WikiProject Cetaceans refer to for good ideas.
 * Parent : WikiProject Fishes
 * Grandparent : WikiProject Tree of Life
 * Great-grandparent : WikiProject Biology
 * Great-great-grandparent : WikiProject Science

Portal
The Sharks Portal is the portal associated and linked to this project.

Things to be standardized

 * Format/layout of article, oceanic whitetip shark is probably the best shark article right now, that is the standard that we want all articles to follow.
 * Article names, shark article names when common name is used should be sentence case - all with lower case letters unless it starts a sentence or phrase, or is a proper noun ie name of country, see Project Fishes naming articles

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Sharks