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[edit] 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)

[edit] Help with vendace

While working on Wikipedia: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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia: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)

[edit] Wildlife Barnstar

There is currently a barnstar proposal at Wikipedia:Barnstar and award proposals/New Proposals#Wildlife Barnstar 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)

[edit] Proposed Veterinary medicine project

There is now a proposed project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Veterinary Medicine 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)

[edit] Limidae species

Unidentified Limidae species
Unidentified 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] WP:TOL template

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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.

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

[edit] 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 m: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)

[edit] Obscure taxonomic problem

Hi, can some bachiopod fan take a look at the source of List_of_brachiopod_genera#B?

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)

[edit] Sea Otter Peer Review

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

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)