Wikipedia:WikiProject Marine life

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.

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

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• Squashbby (talk) 21:39, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
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• L'Aquatique
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The marine life WikiProject overlaps many other WikiProjects which may be useful to keep an eye on, other WikiProjects include:

• Biology
• Tree of Life
  • Birds
  • Mammals
    • Cetaceans
  • Fishes
    • Sharks
  • Amphibians and Reptiles
  • Arthropods
  • Mollusca
    • Bivalves
    • Cephalopods
    • Gastropods
  • Plants
    • Aquatic plants
• Animal anatomy
• Fisheries and Fishing
• Oceans

Featured article candidates

• 07 Jan 2025 – Dusky dolphin (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by LittleJerry (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 12 Dec 2024 – Hawk Channel (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Bronson Fotiadis1 (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

• 28 Jan 2025 – Heteractis magnifica (talk · edit · hist) move request to Radianthus magnifica by Poco a poco (t · c) was moved to Radianthus magnifica (talk · edit · hist) by Reading Beans (t · c) on 04 Feb 2025; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 01 Dec 2023 – Marthasterias (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Plantdrew (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 14 Dec 2024 – Draft:SoFi (robot) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Selectortopic (t · c)

• Amphiprion chrysopterus- Orange-fin Anemonefish
• Amphiprion akallopisos- Skunk Clownfish
• Amphiprion nigripes- Black-footed Clownfish
• Amphiprion tricinctus- Three-Band Anemonefish
• Amphiprion ephippium- Red Saddleback Anemonefish
• Amphiprion polymnus- Saddleback Clownfish
• Amphiprion allardi- Allard's Clownfish
• Anatolanthias
• Anthias
• Caesioperca
• Caprodon
• Dactylanthias
• Giganthias
• Hemanthias
• Holanthias
• Hypoplectrodes
• Lepidoperca
• Luzonichthys
• Nemanthias
• Odontanthias
• Othos (Anthias)
• Palythoa
• Parasesarma erythrodactyla
• Planctanthias
• Plectranthias
• Pronotogrammus
• Pseudanthias
• Rabaulichthys
• Sacura
• Selenanthias
• Serranocirrhitus
• Tosana
• Tosanoides

• Tag appropriate article talk pages as {{WikiProject Marine life}} with assessment and importance
• There are a large number of articles needing assessment

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.

• Dio
• Nemanthias
• Planctanthias
• Rabaulichthys
• Sacura
• Selenanthias
• Tosana
• Tosanoides
• Can someone please upload a picture of a living Scaphopod (aka Tusk Shell)? We only have the shells or fossils.

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

• Heteractis magnifica,
• Sea apple,
• Tube-dwelling anemone

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.

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.

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

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:

	Marine life (inactive)
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Marine life, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.Marine lifeWikipedia:WikiProject Marine lifeTemplate:WikiProject Marine lifeMarine life

Documentation for the template is provided on the template page.

• {{Alga-stub}}

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

• {{Invertebrate-stub}}

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

• {{Fish-stub}}

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

• {{Shark-stub}}

This shark-related article is a stub. You can help the Wikiproject, WikiProject Sharks by expanding it.

• {{Crustacean-stub}}

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

• {{Mollusc-stub}}

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

• {{Cephalopod-stub}}

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

• {{Gastropod-stub}}

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

• {{Bivalve-stub}}

This bivalve-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e

• {{Cnidarian-stub}} (strongly consider using {{Anthozoa-stub}} or {{Medusozoa-stub}} instead)

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

• {{Anthozoa-stub}}

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

• {{Medusozoa-stub}}

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

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Category:Aquatic organisms

These lists are hosted on the Marine Life Portal.

Edit List

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• Votes for deletion (Article deletion):
• Votes for undelete (Article undeletion}:
• Templates for deletion:
• Categories for deletion: Cat:Acipenseriformes stubs
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:

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.

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