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The Marine Life WikiProject

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The Marine Life WikiProject is designed to further information on Wikipedia. It is here to address both biological aspects of marine life but also its husbandry in the aquatics hobby.

It aims to create both good and featured articles ranging from marine fish, invertebrates, corals, aquatics, and marine ecology.

At the end of October 2021, there were 10,332 articles within the project's scope. During October 2021, the most popular 500 articles received 4,184,591 views, averaging 134,987 views per day.

If you have any questions please leave them on our discussion page.

Participants

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Any user is able to join and help the Marine Life WikiProject. Anybody interested in helping, just sign below.

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The marine life WikiProject overlaps many other WikiProjects which may be useful to keep an eye on, other WikiProjects include:

Article alerts

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Articles to be split

Articles for creation


Tasks

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Collaboration of the month

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Copyedit/extensive work

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Expand

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Requests

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Have a look at the requested articles page on Wikipedia for fish, invertebrates, birds, and mammals. You can also leave any requests you have here.

Stubs

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Have a look at Category:Invertebrate_stubs, Category:Mollusc_stubs, Category:Fish_stubs, Category:Shark stubs, Category:Cephalopod_stubs, Category:Crustacean_stubs, Category:Gastropod_stubs, Category:Cnidarian_stubs, Category:Medusozoan_stubs, Category:Anthozoan_stubs

Other

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Pictures

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Many articles could greatly benefit from having a picture in the taxobox. A lot of fish that are common in the aquarium trade would be easy to get pictures of as they are commonly owned and sold. Upload any pictures to WikiPedia Commons.

Adopt an article

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Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.


Assessment

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For assessment log, see Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Marine life articles by quality log

Templates

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Talk page box

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Pages become part of the Marine life WikiProject by adding our template, {{WikiProject Marine life}}, to the page's talk page. This adds the following box to the talk page:

WikiProject iconMarine life FA‑class (inactive)
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Marine life, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.
FAThis article has been rated as FA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Documentation for the template is provided on the template page.

General Stub templates

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This Alga-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.





This crustacean-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.


 This mollusc-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.


 This cephalopod-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia's Cephalopod wikiproject by expanding it.


 This gastropod-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.





Marine life templates

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  • {{Marine Life Wikiproject}} =


Userbox

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{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Marine life/Userbox}}

This user is a member of WikiProject Marine Life.

Categories

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Category:Aquatic organisms

Lists

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These lists are hosted on the Marine Life Portal.

Edit List

Wikipedia surveys

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Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

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Votes for deletion

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WikiProject Deletion sorting
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Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The projectname-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/projectname.

Articles needing attention

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Tools

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Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • reFill - 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.