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The project

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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!!

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! How? Just copy from a book and hope it is correct or read and use geographical skills? How correct must they be to be accepted here? Not so easy to do?
FishBase have distribution, 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 consistant :-(, anyway I did one for GWS and will continue to do more for the most common sharks, but it is hard work and take quite a while so I will go slow. Stefan 14:16, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • 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 indipendent 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

Featured/Good Articles

Featured articles

Try to update these articles to become featured articles:

Good articles

And update these to be good articles:

Requests

Leave any requests you have or have found elsewhere here.

Stubs

These articles are very short and may only include a sentence or two. Have a look at Category:Fish stubs for others.

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.

Copyedit/Formatting

These articles may have enough text but are poorly formatted and may have spelling mistakes.

Patrol for vandalism

Have a look at the recent changes for the Category:Sharks

Collaboration

The current Sharks Collaboration of the fortnight is
"Great white shark".
To nominate or vote for an article visit the collaboration page.

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.

Article structure

Starting a new article

Most of the new articles that need to be made are for species. Species articles should be named by the English name, not the scientific (unless there is no common English name). Only the first word should be capitalised, unless it is a name, for example "Ron Taylor (diver)" would have both Ron and Taylor capitalised, while "Great white shark" should only have the first word done. A redirect from the scientific binomial name to the common could be made for each species.

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)

Categories

The top level category for shark articles is Category:Sharks but within this are several other categories that might be more revelant to the article. Listing species under the Order 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.

Some other categories (outside Category:Sharks) that may be relevant are:

Templates

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.

WikiProject iconSharks NA‑class
WikiProject iconThis page is within the scope of WikiProject Sharks, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of sharks on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SharksWikipedia:WikiProject SharksTemplate:WikiProject Sharksshark articles
NAThis page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Use: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Sharks/SharksTalk}}

Collaboration

This template updates to the current Collaboration of the Fortnight.

The current Sharks Collaboration of the fortnight is
"Great white shark".
To nominate or vote for an article visit the collaboration page. 


Use: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Sharks/Collaboration/SharksCOTF}}

To do

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


Here are some tasks you can do, as organized by the Sharks Wikiproject, if you are interested sign up on the project page: 

Use: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Sharks/Things you can do}}

Userbox

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

This user is a participant in WikiProject Sharks.


Use: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Sharks/Userbox}}

Species

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.

Organised list of relevant shark articles

Shark · Outline of sharks
Shark orders
Carcharhiniformes (groundsharks) · Cladoselachiformes (extinct) · Eugeneodontida (extinct) · Heterodontiformes (bullhead sharks) · Hexanchiformes (most primitive sharks) · Hybodontiformes (extinct) · Iniopterygia (extinct) · Lamniformes (mackerel sharks) · Orectolobiformes (carpet sharks and relatives) · Pristiophoriformes (sawsharks and relatives) · Squaliformes (gulper sharks, bramble sharks, lantern sharks, rough sharks, sleeper sharks, dogfish sharks and relatives) · Squatiniformes (angel sharks) · Symmoriida (extinct) · Xenacanthida (also known as Xenacantiformes, extinct)


Major species
Basking shark · Blue shark · Bull shark · Great hammerhead · Great white shark · Grey reef shark · Hammerhead shark · Megalodon · Megamouth shark · Nurse shark · Oceanic whitetip shark · Requiem shark · Scalloped hammerhead · Shortfin mako shark · Swellshark · Thresher shark · Tiger shark · Whale shark


Shark biology
Ampullae of Lorenzini · Mermaid's purses · Physical characteristics of sharks · Shark teeth · Shark threat display


Shark-human interaction
Attack (drum lines, International Shark Attack File, Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, list of fatal, unprovoked shark attacks in the United States, shark net, shark proof cage, shark suit, Summer of the Shark) · Captivity (shark tunnel) · Conservation (grey nurse shark conservation, Shark Alliance, Shark Conservation Act, Shark Trust) · Fishing (International Land-Based Shark Fishing Association, land-based shark fishing) · Products (shark cartilage, shark finning, shark fin soup, shark liver oil)

References

List of good sources for info to be used when writing articles:

Participants

Confessed contributors

  • Stefan Trying to start this project, but have very little time sometimes ... let's see how it goes.
  • 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. Tomertalk 04:52, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yomangani - I'll do what I can:sometimes I have a lot of time,sometimes no time at all
  • Oniongirl - I'll do more work on this once I get back from studying bull semen in Texas
  • Chris_huh - Want to get involved in this project. I have recently added some maps and new diagrams as well as trying to update the shark page

Unconfessed contributors

Other WikiProjects

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, see Project Fishes naming articles

Good content

Good articles

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