Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Marine life/Archive 1

Can someone take a look at Ctenophore?
I just finished a translation of this article from the featured article at the German Wikipedia (Rippenquallen). But it really needs some expert attention, to make sure that I got scientific terms like "cilia", "systematics", "phylegeny" etc. in the right places. I hope that nothing's actually blatantly inaccurate, but there may be cases where I selected an ill-fitting translation of a German word. If it was to ever become a featured article here (and, despite knowing nothing about marine biology, I found the German article very interesting), it would also need some inline citations - I don't have easy access to the literature, but maybe the Wikipedians here do. --Sam Blanning(talk) 17:25, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Help with vendace
While working on WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/fr, I found out that the name "vendace" refers to at least two different species in the genus Coregonus: C. albula and C. vandesius. I was wondering if anyone here could comment at Talk:vendace and help sort out the disambiguation issues. Thanks, Ardric47 00:38, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Hope I can help
Looks a bit like Wikipedia needs serious help on it's fish related articles, so here I am. I'm more into keeping fish for hobby, but can do anything you want me to. I'm an intermediate user, only joined a couple months ago, but just messasge me for anything. --Minfo 03:57, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Right whale
Right whale is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy 23:09, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 23:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wildlife Barnstar
There is currently a barnstar proposal at Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals for a barnstar which would be available for use for this project. Please feel free to visit the page and make any comments you see fit. Badbilltucker 15:34, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Proposed Veterinary medicine project
There is now a proposed project at WikiProject Council/Proposals to deal with matters of veterinary medicine, a subject which currently has disproportionately low content in wikipedia. Any wikipedia editors who have an interest in working on content related to the subject are encouraged to indicate as much there. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:11, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Limidae species
Having trouble identifying this limidae species. I took this picture in Sulawesi, Indonesia. This fellow was almost a meter wide and it had electric sparks flashing on its mantle. A google search for "electric fire clam" provides video footage of the electric sparks. Would appreciate if anyone could help with the identity. And of course if anyone would like a go at an article of this species, that would be great too. Jnpet 04:11, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 17:35, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

The Fish Quiz
I'm happy to announce that the Fish Portal has added a new feature - The Fish Quiz!! Come test your knowledge, interact with other fish editors, try to win the game and have your name honored in the Hall of Fame, and have a fun break from editing wikipedia. Cheers --Melanochromis 08:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Will someone please review my Leptasterias pusilla article..
I am new to wikipedia, and this is only my second article. It still needs more content and citations; however, I wanted to get some input on it so far. Any feedback on how to make it better, etc., would be greatly appreciated! Thank you all so much in advance! Kilbad 03:17, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

WP:TOL template
I'm working on a proposal to subsume all the WP:TOL project banners into a single one. Please see WikiProject Tree of Life/Template union proposal and its talk page. Circeus 19:22, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

New animal
Could someone please help me how to find somebody who could write an article about this medically important animal? Here is the German article. Thanks in advance! NCurse work 20:48, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Marine life, or just Marine animals?
Looking through the project page, it seems to me that your focus is on marine animals, rather than all marine life. In doing so, you're missing out on several ecologically important groups, such as the brown algae, the diatoms, the foraminiferans, and the dinoflagellates. Am I correct in my assumption? Werothegreat 12:37, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Coral reef
I was surprised to find that the coral reef article did not have a Marine life banner (or any other). I wouldn't expect an oversight on such a big topic, so, after I added it, I wondered if my assumption was in error. Coral reef should be linked with Wikiproject Marine life, right? WDavis1911 09:38, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Elacatinus
Hi everyone... Just created Elacatinus (also a redirect from Neon Goby). I would appreciate it if some people would go check it out, make sure I didn't make any typos! It has been listed under the scope of both this wikiproject and Wikiproject Aquarium Fishes. Thanks,   L' Aquatique      talktome   23:58, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Requesting comments on merge
Requesting wider input on proposed merge of related articles cleaner fish, (with) cleaner shrimp and(/or) cleaner station. Richard001 10:08, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Request for Walrus review
Hello. The walrus article is currently on hold as a good article nominee. If anyone would care to look it over and see what else it might need, or how the formatting in particular might be improved, this would be greatly appreciated, especially as this has so far been a largely solo project. Thanks a bunch! - Eliezg 03:28, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

MarineBio resource
Hi all. I've just stumbled across a site called MarineBio which seems like it might be a good resource for Wikipedians involved in this project. ~MDD4696 02:10, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Greenspun illustration project: requests now open
Dear Wikimedians,

This is a (belated) announcement that requests are now being taken for illustrations to be created for the Philip Greenspun illustration project (PGIP).

The aim of the project is to create and improve illustrations on Wikimedia projects. You can help by identifying which important articles or concepts are missing illustrations (diagrams) that could make them a lot easier to understand. Requests should be made on this page: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project/Requests

If there's a topic area you know a lot about or are involved with as a Wikiproject, why not conduct a review to see which illustrations are missing and needed for that topic? Existing content can be checked by using Mayflower to search Wikimedia Commons, or use the Free Image Search Tool to quickly check for images of a given topic in other-language projects.

The community suggestions will be used to shape the final list, which will be finalised to 50 specific requests for Round 1, due to start in January. People will be able to make suggestions for the duration of the project, not just in the lead-up to Round 1.


 * General information about the project: Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project
 * Potential illustrators and others interested in the project should join the mailing list: greenspun-illustrations

thanks, pfctdayelise (talk) 13:05, 13 December 2007 (UTC) (Project coordinator)

Reminder of the Philip Greenspun Illustration project
Hi. You may be familiar with the Philip Greenspun Illustration Project. $20,000 has been donated to pay for the creation of high quality diagrams for Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Requests are currently being taken at Philip Greenspun illustration project/Requests and input from members of this project would be very welcome. If you can think of any diagrams (not photos or maps) that would be useful then I encourage you to suggest them at this page. If there is any free content material that would assist in drawing the diagram then it would be great if you could list that, too.

If there are any related (or unrelated) WikiProjects you think might have some suggestions then please pass this request over. Thanks. --Cherry blossom tree 16:39, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Obscure taxonomic problem
Hi, can some bachiopod fan take a look at the source of List_of_brachiopod_genera?

Basically, the matter is thus:
 * The frog genus-group taxon is the oldest... it seems (see next point). Author is Thompson, 1912. This is verified by Nomenclator and has been re-verified by Matsui in Current Herpetology Vol. 21, No. 1 in 2002.
 * The "Boucek 1993" taxon refers to a Chalcid wasp genus. This is supported by Nomenclator and the NHM chalcidid database. PAleoDB disagrees, but it is not at all a reliable source (even though Nomenclator and the NHM DB have errors too, PaleoDB is full of them)
 * I cannot find a source for the supposed brachiopod genus name except what Google Scholar spits out. Which is just 2 publications. Google Books suggests that Trias und Jura des Ostbalkans refers to the chalk rocks of Babina Stena in Bulgaria, which would fit the "Eastern Balkans" title, BUT if a brachiopod genus was described from there it might of course be named after the place. The other Scholar hit ("SD Ma The Geological Survey of India") obviously refers to Babina in India, which might also have been the source of a genus though I think not, see here.

So either there is a brachiopod genus named after Babina Stena in Bulgaria by Bernd in 1934 (possibly - the general theme of Mesozoic chalk rocks fits), or after Babina in India by ?Ma? in 1930 (very very maybe).

Or the supposed "brachiopod" genus Babina is nonexistent, based on the sloppiness of PaleoDB. I am beginning to suspect the latter but am not sure. Where does the brachiopod genus list come from? And can anyone check out the 1934 book... if that's possible... (it is fairly well-available in Germany but it's very rare even in Austrian and Swiss public libraries) Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 02:04, 2 February 2008 (UTC)

Sea Otter Peer Review
Hi everyone. I've started a peer review for Sea otter, Peer_review/Sea_otter/archive1, and would appreciate your input. Cheers, Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 06:18, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

Now at FAC: Featured article candidates/Sea otter. Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 07:27, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Template:Marine Life Talk
Proposing to merge this with the template from the now defunct 'Marine biology' WikiProject. Please comment. Richard001 (talk) 08:27, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

FAR for Sperm Whale
Sperm Whale has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Sabine's Sunbird  talk  03:57, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Algae & Seaweed
I'm working on a series of articles on edible seaweed species, which are algae and may or may not fall under the scope of wikiproject plants. These articles (and existing algae articles, like porphyra) seem like they would fall under the scope of WikiProject Marine life, but I didn't see anything on these pages about them. Do you all want me to add Marine Life templates to these pages? Indeterminate (talk) 09:52, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
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Redirects on "G. species" disambiguation pages
Please see this discussion so that we can come to a conclusion about redirects used on "G. species" disambiguation pages.

Thank you, Neelix (talk) 22:38, 14 July 2008 (UTC)

New WikiProject proposal: Biota of the UK and Ireland
I've proposed a new WikiProject named WikiProject Biota of the UK and Ireland which would encompass all species and conservation efforts within Britain, an extremely interesting area. The project would include vegetation classification, Category:Lists of British animals, Category:Conservation in the United Kingdom, Category:Ecology of the British Isles, Category:Forests and woodlands of the United Kingdom, Category:Fauna of the British Isles and anything else to do with the flora and fauna of Britain. If anyone is interested just leave your name on the proposal page. Cheers, Jack (talk) 17:12, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

Automated creation of alga articles
Hi,

I'm creating a bot to create short article on algal taxa from the genus level up. Stubs will appear over the next couple of days here; more details are available here, where any comments would be gratefully received.

Thanks, Martin  (Smith609 – Talk)  17:52, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Hi Martin,


 * That's great news! :) I went on an enthusiastic spree roughly a year ago, making articles for most taxa of the Chlorophyta and Charophyta (the green algae) at genus-level and higher, but undoubtedly I missed some and new taxa have been added in the meanwhile.  You might also consider developing a bot to improve those earlier articles with a fuller description, images, more links to literature and databases, etc.  I did the best I could, but I'm no expert and they were pretty rudimentary.  Thanks for your good work, Willow (talk) 19:40, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * PS. I made a few templates and categories to help with the work, which you might consider? I made separate categories for each of the (major) taxonomic levels of algae: Category:Algae taxonomic classes, Category:Algae taxonomic orders, Category:Algae taxonomic families, and [[:Category:Algae genera.  Secondly, I made two templates for linking to taxonomic references and databases, unimaginatively titled Taxonomic references and Taxonomic links. ;)  We can modify or specialize them for you, if that'd help! :) Willow (talk) 19:40, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Update: The bot is now churning out its first test pages.  I'd be really grateful for any feedback. You can view the articles here, and if you could reply here rather than on this page, that would be very helpful.  Thanks, Martin  (Smith609 – Talk)  18:10, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Marine life
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delete Category Mollusc of country
Feel free to share your opinion of this problem at Categories for discussion/Log/2008 December 17. --Snek01 (talk) 22:06, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

Orphan tags on species stubs
Discussion and note here. I think this would be a similar problem with species stubs for this project area, because of the large number of mollusc stubs taht I see, again with the huge numbers of species, and the tag overpowering the brief article itself, and no useful information about how to wikilink the stub that would be actually useful to the reader outside of its genus page. --KP Botany (talk) 04:19, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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Slingjaw wrasse
I just added a stub for the slingjaw wrasse, Epibulus_insidiator, but I don't know enough (either about this species or proper wiki coding) to make it better. It does, however, have a kickass vid from the Wainwright lab of feeding. Check the lab's youtube channel and you'll find more vids of feeding that might be useful. Mokele (talk) 20:06, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Polychaete:Vandalism?
From Polychaete: "A recently discovered genus Osedax includes the Bone-eating snot flower."

Looks like obvious vandalism. However, it sometimes turns out that what appears to be obvious vandalism is not. What say WikiProject Marine life members? -- 201.37.230.43 (talk) 17:52, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

BOT notice
Hello,

I have created a bot that will be using a database of prehistoric genus information to fill in the tables on pages like List of prehistoric starfish. Please see its bot request and comment there. Suggestions for improvements and/or people willing to spot check its work are welcome and appreciated.

Thank you, ThaddeusB (talk) 02:04, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Expert opinion needed
Background:' The following articles contain empty tables of prehistoric genus of varying types of creatures. A bot has been written by me that can fill them in using data from paleodb.org and Sepkoski. The task is currently stalled due to some concern about my own lack of expert knowledge on the subject.

Needed: I need someone eith "expert" knowledge (defined as a passion for the subject matter & the ability to easily spot blatant errors) to review the potential bot output of any one of the following articles of his or her choosing:

The articles:
 * List of prehistoric starfish
 * List of prehistoric barnacles
 * List of crinoid genera
 * List of prehistoric echinoids
 * List of edrioasteroids
 * List of graptolites
 * List of prehistoric sea cucumbers
 * List of hyoliths
 * List of prehistoric malacostracans
 * List of prehistoric brittle stars
 * List of prehistoric ostracods
 * List of prehistoric chitons
 * List of prehistoric stylophorans

Sample page: A sample page is available for viewing here. This is provided to give you an idea about what the output will look like, but shouldn't be viewed as a final product as it (currently) includes at least one error that will be corrected shortly.

What I want: Basically, I want someone to look over an entire table (of their choice) and say either "I don't see any obvious errors" or "there are a few errors such as X,Y,Z." I will then figure out the cause of the errors (if any), fix the code, and re-run to make sure the errors are gone.

Reward: Wikipedia gets a lot of valuable science content. I get this stalled project off my to-do list. You get a "warm fuzzy" for helping improve Wikipedia in a significant way, my gratitude, and a token of my appreciation.

Let me know if interest, ThaddeusB (talk) 03:30, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

New article: Enypniastes
New article: Enypniastes. Can experts help expand it (and add a photo)? Badagnani (talk) 03:08, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject Algae
WikiProject Algae was started as a meeting space on Wikipedia for improving the taxonomic representations of the groups of organisms called algae. Please join other editors at the talk page (Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Algae) to discuss a higher level taxonomy for algae to be used on Wikipedia.

The taxonomies used on Wikipedia algae articles are a mixture of ancient to modern random phyla/classes that are often inconsistent from one article to the next (and sometimes within the same sentence of an article). Editors have adopted hypothesized taxonomies from single articles in the literature, taxonomies that have been out of favor for over 100 years, and some taxoboxes use taxonomies from two different sources.

I think that a taxonomy that is supported in tertiary sources (textbooks), with added insight from the technical literature (review articles, well-cited research), could create some order to allow editors with a wide range of knowledge to edit these articles. Please discuss the proposed taxonomy at the project talk page. --68.127.232.132 (talk) 19:37, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
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WoRMS plugin for AWB
I had written a AutoWikiBrowser plugin that helps download information from the WoRMS database. I thought it may be useful for this WikiProject. The plugin is available for use at User:Ganeshk/WoRMS. If you are interested, please test the program and let me know your feedback. Regards, Ganeshk  ( talk ) 04:03, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Help needed
Hi, I would liike to get some help with copy editing of the new article. Thanks. Flowery flounder.--Mbz1 (talk) 21:00, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Templates for external links
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tree of life. --Snek01 (talk) 17:16, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Benthocodon
New article popped up. Don't know enough about the subject matter to edit it properly. Any help would be appreciated. --Torchwood Who? (talk) 05:58, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Marine life articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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We would like to ask you to review the Marine life articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

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For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:18, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject Algae talk page tagging
I have asked a user with a project tagging bot to start tagging wikiproject algae articles. The conversation is here if you would like to comment, make suggestions. Thanks. --KMLP (talk) 19:40, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Marivagia stellata
Hi, I've created an article about the recently classifed jellyfish Marivagia stellata. Furthermore, as this is a subject I know little about, I have not linked it to any related subjects and it is still an orphan. Any input by someone better informed than me would be appreciated. Thank you, Poliocretes (talk) 22:29, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

John Hooper (marine biologist)
Project members may wish to comment here: Articles for deletion/John Hooper (marine biologist).4meter4 (talk) 10:33, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Citation templates now support more identifiers
Recent changes were made to citations templates (such as citation, cite journal, cite web...). In addition to what was previously supported (bibcode, doi, jstor, isbn, ...), templates now support arXiv, ASIN, JFM, LCCN, MR, OL, OSTI, RFC, SSRN and Zbl. Before, you needed to place id (or worse http://arxiv.org/abs/0123.4567), now you can simply use 0123.4567, likewise for id and http://www.jstor.org/stable/0123456789 → 0123456789.

The full list of supported identifiers is given here (with dummy values):



Obviously not all citations needs all parameters, but this streamlines the most popular ones and gives both better metadata and better appearances when printed. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:04, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

Disambiguation opinions
Hi. I'd be grateful if editors which an interest in disambiguation could take a look at Tristis and let me know their thoughts on its talk page. Thanks SP-KP (talk) 10:20, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

Snail fur
Snail fur is an article on the hydroid Hydractinia echinata which I have just enlarged. I would like to rename the article to its proper scientific name and have a redirect from "Snail fur". I will put a suggestion on the talk page. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:31, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Food web
Food web is currently being rewritten, and will hopefully go to FA. Any relevant contributions from people in this project will be much appreciated. --Epipelagic (talk) 06:15, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Invitation to assist in adding donated content: GLAM/ARKive
I am the Wikipedia Outreach Ambassador to ARKive, who have kindly agreed to donate an initial 200 article texts about endangered species from their project, to Wikipedia, under a CC-BY-SA license. Details are on the GLAM/ARKive project page. The donated texts include many about marine wildlife. Your help, to merge the donated texts into articles, would be appreciated. Guidelines for doing so are also on the above page. Once articles have been expanded using the donated texts, we are also seeking assistance in having those articles translated into other languages. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, on the project's talk page, or my own. Andy Mabbett (User: Pigsonthewing ); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:14, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

New user
I am finding my way into Wikipedia and have been recommended by an editor to introduce myself on this talk page. I am a semi-retired marine biologist who has researched crown-of-thorns starfish, giant clams, pearl oysters and aquaculture, and published books on each of these. I may contribute substantial editing to each of these entries in Wikipedia and perhaps on some other tropical marine biology topics. In fact, I have successlully done some editing of 'Crown-of-thorns starfish'. However, it is a deterrent to consider adding substantial text or even a new topic that one has spent a considerable period preparing and then find it unacceptable. Is there a way to present and discuss proposed substantial editing and why it is proposed? Probably this is outlined in the Wikipedia instructions, but I am having difficulties in assimilating and integrating all the instructions. 130.102.158.16 (talk) 01:59, 28 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello, I have replied on your talk page.-- O BSIDIAN  †  S OUL  02:25, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

why crabs walk sideways
I think that crabs walk sideways because they feed on detrius which they feel for with their feet. Most of what they eat is scavanged off the sea floor which they taste with their feet. The reason they walk sideways has got to be to maximise their chances of finding food. i had this idea when i saw a report about robot scientists who were trying to clear mine fields. they discovered that using an eight legged robot that walked sideways they were able to search for mines under the surface of a field without missing one. In order to prove this theory someone should look at some crab footprints. If i am right they should be a series of dots equi-distant from eachother with no big gaps or holes. I believe there are crabs which dont walk sideways so i predict that these are species which dont scavange. The simplicity of this answer is what attracts me to it and makes me think it must be true. But i am not in a position to prove it so i thought id post the idea here and let someone else do the science. Jamesdonkey (talk) 11:07, 23 January 2013 (UTC)

Pygmy pipehorses
An issue has come up with one of the AfC submissions. Please see the discussion in my talk page, I'd appreciate your input. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 13:30, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

are jellyfish the cure to a bad nervous system?
My name is Bobby Knowles. And i reckon that i know the answer to cure a bad nervous system. So basically i reckon that the answer is a jellyfish. This is because jellyfish do not have a nervous system. Also i thought that you could use an injection to get a sample from the jellyfish and basically you could then insert the injection into a monkey because they are our closest relatives. And basically it could be different parts of the jellyfish that you might need to cure a bad nervous system.
 * Hi Bobby, when you are a researcher and write and publish scientific papers on this subject, we may be able to incorporate your research findings into the article on jellyfish. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:41, 23 September 2013 (UTC)

Featured_picture_candidates
Your opinions are highly appreciated. J Kadavoor J e e 06:49, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

ID needed
I took these at the market. Are they well-known? Pls give me the species name so that I can add it to the image description.

Many thanks. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 02:33, 29 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Anna, you probably should ask that in WP:WikiProject Fishes, if you haven't already.-- O BSIDIAN  †  S OUL  02:25, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia:HighBeam
HighBeam describes a limited opportunity for Wikipedia editors to have access to HighBeam Research. —Wavelength (talk) 18:15, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Shrimps and prawns
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Shrimp. Epipelagic (talk) 02:59, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

One million new species of sea life
The discovery of one million new species of sea life has been reported. —Wavelength (talk) 19:32, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Tara Research Vessel Discovers One Million New Species Of Microscopic Sea Life (PICTURES)

Baseodiscus mexicanus
Was this the right call? Thanks. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:04, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Is seafood a subset of cuisine?
Should articles on seafood be given titles that restrict them to cuisines, as a user maintains in this thread? There is a referral for comment on this issue where members of this project are invited to give their views. --Epipelagic (talk) 23:14, 27 October 2012 (UTC)

Urticina columbiana
It's my first sea anemone article. Would someone please give it a quick read to see if the description makes sense. I'm looking at a drawing, but its bits and pieces are in strange places, so I don't quite know if I'm describing it properly. Many thanks, Anna Frodesiak (talk) 05:01, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

Shell Growth in Estuaries
There's a new submission at Articles for Creation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Shell_Growth_in_Estuaries that has had problems due to being "essay-like", and is likely to have significant problems proceeding further. It's extremely well referenced, so any help would be appreciated. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 11:16, 9 January 2013 (UTC)


 * This survived AfC and is currently on the Main Page as a WP:DYK. Many thanks to everyone involved. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 09:06, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Student groups editing marine articles
This is a notification that what appears to be two student groups have started editing articles on marine life: at Oncorhynchus, and  at Coccolithophore. Their instructor doesn't seem to have notified anyone at Wikipedia that this would be happening, and so far the first group, EcoWikiGroup13, have been non responsive at attempts to communicate with them. The edits so far seem fairly competent and Copyscape doesn't detect plagiarism. However, the names they have chosen suggest there may be 13 or more groups involved, so this may be the start of considerable activity. --Epipelagic (talk) 04:48, 23 April 2013 (UTC)

Plasmodiophora bicaudata
Some section deleting going on at Plasmodiophora bicaudata. Is it legitimate? --Tobias1984 (talk) 06:53, 29 May 2013 (UTC)
 * The matter is under discussion on the talk page. Some expert opinion is needed. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:16, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Funky taxobox
Could anyone please tell me why this taxobox is acting up on me? Thanks! FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 02:21, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I couldn't see what was wrong and fiddled around with it for a bit. In the end I replaced the top part with a copy of the Pelagomonas taxobox which seems to have worked. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 08:35, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Sea bamboo
Hi, Sea bamboo currently goes to Ecklonia maxima, a species of kelp, but, per the old discussion here, the thing most commonly referred to as "sea bamboo" appears to be a type of coral. I'm not sure how best to fix this -- whether the existing target of "sea bamboo" is incorrect and needs to be changed to something else (possibly Bamboo coral?) or whether there needs to be a disambiguation page for Sea bamboo, or some other solution. Can anyone help? 86.176.211.137 (talk) 14:30, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

Archived a few threads
I've archived some inactive threads to subsections which were notifications about discussions that have since been closed. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 19:07, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Star fish are dying
Is this of interest to this wikiproject? XOttawahitech (talk) 00:24, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 * http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-something-is-killing-the-starfish-scientists-race-to-find-out-what-20140204,0,6767257.story#axzz2tcNaRjVu
 * See the article Starfish wasting disease. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 14:16, 18 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank You! I have added tags for WikiProject Ecoregions& WikiProject Oceans ‎to the talk page XOttawahitech (talk) 00:30, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

File:Alitta succinea (epitoke form).jpg
This is a featured picture here, a colour balance edited version of File:Alitta succinea (epitoke).jpg. The original author who seems to be a subject expert. So I request a subject expert to verify it and choose the correct version in the article. J e e 02:49, 8 March 2014 (UTC)

Request for article reviewers
Questions have been raised about the accuracy of science articles written by the prolific author. The background can be read in a regrettably long and bad-tempered thread at Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive835. If you do not want to read the whole thing, start here. To her credit, Cwmhiraeth has initiated Editor review/Cwmhiraeth. It would help to generate light, rather than more heat, and to decide whether there is a serious problem, if scientifically-qualified editors uninvolved in the row could review some of Cwmhiraeth's articles and comment at the editor review. JohnCD (talk) 21:11, 14 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Links to archived thread updated. JohnCD (talk) 13:25, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Royal Society journals - subscription offer for one year
I'm delighted to say that the Royal Society, the UK’s National Academy for science, is offering 24 Wikipedians free access for one year to its prestigious range of scientific journals. Please note that much of the content of these journals is already freely available online, the details varying slightly between the journals – see the Royal Society Publishing webpages. For the purposes of this offer the Royal Society's journals are divided into 3 groups: Biological sciences, Physical sciences and history of science. For full details and signing-up, please see the applications page. Initial applications will close on 25 May 2014, but later applications will go on the waiting list. Wiki at Royal Society John (talk) 03:09, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

New article, new order
Relicanthus daphneae is now an article. Please improve. Or delete if I've made a gigantic booboo. Sophie means wisdom (talk) 09:53, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

Chitons that wikipedia says are extinct (but aren't)
I'll start by admitting that the advantage of the Template:Taxonomy is entirely unclear to me, as it simply makes editing less intuitive (to me at least). Regardless, someone seems to have started a whole bunch of chiton articles using the Catalogue of Fossil Chitons (van Belle, 1981) and listed *everything* as extinct. Unfortunately, this work lists all chitons known from fossil species, including genera and families that have both fossil and extant (~still living) members. I've already noticed that quite a few have been corrected, but the following genera are still incorrectly listed as extinct via the Template:Taxonomy: Ischnochiton, Simplischnochiton (strictly speaking only considered a subgenus of Ischnochiton by most recent authorities, incl. WoRMS), Stenoplax, Callochiton, Ocellochiton (often regarded a subgenus of Callochiton, e.g. O'Neill 1984), Lepidochiton, Tonicella, Chiton and Schizochiton. Other chiton taxa incorrectly listed as extinct using Template:Taxonomy are the subfamilies Callochitoninae, Lepidochitoninae and Chitoninae (see Subgroups in Template:Taxonomy/Ischnochitonidae). I don't fully understand the Template:Taxonomy (it appears I'm not alone) – rather than make a mess, I hope someone with basic knowledge about this template can correct the entries. 62.107.220.212 (talk) 23:20, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * I figured it out. Deleting the entire extinct sentence in each Template:Taxonomy solves the problem. There's just a cache (or template?) issue that means that it only shows in the specific article quite a bit later. 62.107.220.212 (talk) 23:43, 26 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Marine life articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 22:36, 18 October 2014 (UTC)

Sea cucumber
Hello, I am a French scientist (and long-time editor on the French Wikipedia) and I just edited massively the Sea cucumber article. The work is not perfect yet, but it is enough for today ! Hence, I am looking for someone to read it over in order to check the grammar and presentation rules. There may also still lack some spaces, as I had problems with copying from Word... Thanks a lot ! FredD (talk) 16:11, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I have been through the article, added a lot of spaces, changed the grammar in places, made the English a bit more idiomatic etc. Very nice and colourful! Cwmhiraeth (talk) 19:41, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot ! FredD (talk) 21:43, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

Finger corals
Regarding Acropora humilis and Porites porites (Porites):

Are they the same? Please see:, , and.

Thank you. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:34, 27 November 2014 (UTC)

Maybe we need a dab page because of Montipora digitata and Porites compressa. Let me know if you want me to make it. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:38, 27 November 2014 (UTC)


 * Disregard. I started Finger coral as a dab page, moved what was there to before to an article titled with the binomial, and reverted the diff, as a probable good faith error. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 06:30, 28 November 2014 (UTC)

Marine Mammal WikiSprint - editathon
Hi All,

I am the Education Committee Chair for the Society for Marine Mammalogy, we are hosting a "WikiSprint" which is a week long editathon starting on January 19th for all articles related to marine mammals. Please considering enrolling on our WikiEducation Course Page

ShaneGero (talk) 09:36, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Any ideas?
Any theories as to what this: http://www.itv.com/news/2015-02-03/woman-finds-strange-creature-in-her-tin-of-tuna/ might be?


 * "gut sack with eyes", and "a spiny tail along the bottom?"


 * It's gotta be Spewer! http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/494129


 * LOL, seriously, I have no idea, but that's gross. What might be even grosser is that I started smelling canned tuna while I read this... And there is none around... Weird... Sarr Cat ∑;3 07:53, 5 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sarr Cat (talk • contribs)

Need help with the Blob
Anyone interested in adding to The Blob (Pacific Ocean)?

AshLin (talk) 15:30, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I will have a go. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:48, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Sudden popularity of Bathyphysa conifer
Today, the front pages of Reddit and LiveLeak feature articles about a "bizarre undersea critter" they've dubbed a "flying spaghetti monster" called Bathyphysa conifer, so many people like me came to Wikipedia to learn about it, but that's what you get when you search Wikipedia for it. Chrisrus (talk) 18:24, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

Suggestions welcome on species-article writing handbook for university students
Hello all; I'm writing on behalf of the Wiki Education Foundation, which works with instructors who assign university students to write or edit Wikipedia articles in the United States and Canada. We're developing a print handbook for students who will write or expand articles on a brochure - found here - about editing species articles, including animals, plants and fungi. I'd appreciate any feedback on the draft! It is open for comment until November 5th; after that we will set it to print. Thanks so much! Eryk (Wiki Ed) (talk) 23:12, 27 October 2015 (UTC)

Starfish
OTRS was contacted ( with a notification that the image on the Henricia sanguinolenta article, File:Henricia sanguinolenta 001.jpg, might depict "a specimen within the Stichastrella genus" instead. No opinion from me, but an expert on starfish may want to make sure we got it right. Huon (talk) 21:01, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm working on echinoderms at the French National Museum in Paris, and i confirm this misidentification. I'm fixing it. Regards, FredD (talk) 10:02, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Leptosynapta dolabrifera
Is Leptosynapta dolabrifera for real? It looks kinda hoaxy to me. -- Red rose64 (talk) 22:25, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * It's a real animal, but the article has some issues. This source (cited in the article) is a good one for some of the obscurer groups of marine organisms. Plantdrew (talk) 23:08, 25 June 2015 (UTC)
 * It is a perfectly accepted and common species of Australian synaptid sea cucumber. Indeed WoRMS is the right database for currently accepted marine species. Regards, FredD (talk) 10:14, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Giant Medusa Jellyfish
The wiki article states "With only 115 sightings in the last 110 years it is a jellyfish that is rarely seen, but believed to be widespread throughout the world." I have just returned from a kayaking trip in the Chonos Archipelago of Chile. We saw easily a dozen of these huge jellyfish in the Isla Marta Isla Matilda. I can provide photo proof. Quadralady (talk) 02:35, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I think you may be referring to the article Stygiomedusa gigantea. This is a deepwater species of jellyfish that would not normally be seen near the surface, but according to this source is sometimes "upwelled". Are you positive about your identification? Do you have a photograph good enough for inclusion in the article? Cwmhiraeth (talk) 06:44, 29 February 2016 (UTC)