Talk:List of marine aquarium fish species

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Article listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion July 4 to July 12 2004, consensus was to keep. Discussion:

Transwiki to Wikibooks. Guanaco 03:45, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

• Keep. If we're to transwiki this, we should do the same to List of freshwater aquarium fish species and similar articles, see aquarium. But, the others seem quite useful articles to me. So this just needs cleanup, and renaming to List of marine aquarium fish species. It's a shame it is taking so long, yes. Andrewa 22:06, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Concur. -- Jmabel 03:05, Jul 6, 2004 (UTC)
• Keep - expandable Buster 07:11, Jul 9, 2004 (UTC) (Vote moved here from vfd main space by Graham ☺ | Talk)

End discussion

Contents 1 Very incomplete 2 Major expansion 3 Plagiarism 4 Article Renovation 4.1 Sections, signed when they are finished 5 Removal of wikilinks for species?

[edit] Very incomplete

This article is very incomplete, such as to be mostly useless in its current form. I vote to either set some sort of deadline for finishing it, or deleting it. Comments?

Mmoyer 02:55, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Major expansion

Major expansion is mostly complete. Much needs to be done re adding descriptive info on each species. Also, each species could (should?) get their own article if they do not have one already. Mmoyer 19:48, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarism

User JarolToe made an edit to Cortez Angelfish that is a plagiarism taken directly from www.marinecenter.com. Mmoyer 01:45, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article Renovation

I have adopted this page via WikiProject Marine Life, and plan to completely revamp it. This article needs some serious help. I have copied it in it's entirety to a subpage of my user page where I will be working on it until it's done, hopefully by the end of June. You can view my progress here: User:FireFly5/MarineFishList. I plan to do the following things:

• Fill in all blank spaces
• Update information and/or delete incorrect information
• Add new or conspicuously absent species
• add as many pictures as I can find
• Add citations and sources (I am using The Consciencious Marine Aquarist and FishBase as my sources)

I may also do some rearranging, for example I'm going to split Angelfish into Angelfish (Large) and Angelfish (Dwarf) Anyone who would like to help me is welcome to, just contact me via my talk page. Given that I hope to simply be able to copy and paste the code from my subpage to the article when it's time, it'd be great if any edits, minor or otherwise, would be made to my subpage instead of article directly, or they will end up being reverted when I make the switch. If I find people aren't doing this, I'll just have to go through the history and make the changes myself before switching over, but I'd rather not have to do that!!

Thanks so much!! FireFly5 21:29, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

p.s. as of August 14th I am L'Aquatique

Okay, at User:Mmoyer's advice I have begun moving over sections that are finished. So far, I have Angelfish-Batfish. I'm going to get a jump back on this, since I had taken a break and worked on other stuff. FireFly5 22:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sections, signed when they are finished

1. 1 Angelfish (Large) FireFly5 30 June 2007
2. 2 Angelfish (Dwarf) FireFly5 32 June 2007
3. 3 Anthias FireFly5 22:20, 27 June 2007
4. 4 Bass & Groupers FireFly5 30 June 2007
5. 5 Basslets & Assessors FireFly5 7 July 2007
6. 6 Batfish FireFly5 22:20, 6 July 2007
7. 7 Blennies FireFly5 02:17, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
8. 8 Boxfish L'Aquatique 17:51, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
9. 9 Butterflyfish L'Aquatique 19:40, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
10. 10 Cardinalfish FireFly5 22:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
11. 11 Chromis L'Aquatique 18:36, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
12. 12 Clownfish L'Aquatique ^talktome 18:40, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
13. 13 Damsels
14. 14 Dragonets
15. 15 Eels
16. 16 Filefish
17. 17 Gobies
18. 19 Hawkfish L'Aquatique ^talktome 02:07, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
19. 20 Hogfish
20. 21 Jawfish
21. 22 Lionfish
22. 23 Pipefish
23. 25 Pseudochromis & Dottybacks
24. 26 Rabbitfish & Foxfaces
25. 27 Rays
26. 28 Seahorse FireFly5 22:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
27. 29 Squirrelfish
28. 30 Tangs
29. 31 Tilefish
30. 32 Triggerfish
31. 33 Wrasse

[edit] Removal of wikilinks for species?

I noticed that with the revamp, all of the inactive wikilinks have been removed. I know of at least one bot that runs over fishbase and creates article stubs for many species, and my concern is that because these inactive links are removed, when the articles are created no one will know. I propose that all species names be wikilinked whether an article exists or not. Thoughts? Mmoyer 17:40, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I can put them back in if the consensus is that. Red links just drive me batty. On the other hand, if you can tell me the bots name I can just watch its contributions and update the list as needed. L'Aquatique ^talktome 18:08, 10 October 2007 (UTC)