The Marine Life WikiProject

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

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

• Squashbby (talk) 21:39, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
• Dark jedi requiem
• minfo
• Srose (talk) 15:24, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
• Chris_huh
• TeaDrinker
• Jnpet
• ChicagoPimp
• Antony1103
• Jadestar495
• L'Aquatique
• Bbrown8370
• Huzzahmaster018
• WDavis1911
• Eliezg
• zyla rose
• Tim Ross
• Invertzoo 21:28, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
• Clayoquot
• Rex shock
• Turbonilla
• Esoxid
• Lycaon (talk)
• Spaully
• Nhobgood
• LeafySeaHobbit
• Mr. Moto11 (talk) 00:08, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
• Biriwilg
• apollo81001
• urahozer
• Epipelagic
• Monterey Bay
• London
• Cwmhiraeth
• nymets2000 (t/c/l) 18:27, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
• bondolo (talk) 06:27, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
• KatieHutch (talk) 19:38, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
• Ray Pink (talk)12:18, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
• Grollτech (talk) 21:51, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
• Gtrainer108
• CarinaDSLR (talk) 14:33, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
• Sarakpal (talk) 14:19, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
• siphonophora (talk) 08:13, 8 August 2014 (UTC)
• BernardP (talk) 14:20, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
• Sarr Cat (talk) 01:54, 26 November 2014 (UTC)
• siphonophora (talk) 20:20, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
• PotatoNinja^{(Talk to me!)} 10:19, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
• vr parashar
• Stichodactyla
• 00090R
• Basilosauridae
•   User:Dunkleosteus77 |push to talk 
• Mrh507 (talk · contribs) Mostly images
• Manta rae
• Loopy30
• Culex
• User:Danimations
• Aven_Az13
• Kodiak Blackjack (talk) • (contribs)
• FozzieH
• Scuraball
• ChromeKing
• supsoph
• --MaddiLeighA (talk) 20:50, 17 February 2022 (UTC)
• Always beleive in hope
• Palmejo
• Wikipedian10282
• Squiggeel
• AWolfSpider

Related WikiProjects

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

Article alerts

Did you know

• 19 Apr 2024 – Terrance (octopus) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Yug (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 19 Dec 2023 – Physalia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Portuguese man o' war by Jlwoodwa (t · c); 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

• 08 Mar 2024 – Draft:Atlantic Shark Institute (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Tomaskoeck (t · c)
• 06 Mar 2024 – Draft:Centre of Advanced Study in Marine Biology (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Ahamedpno (t · c)
• 19 Feb 2024 – Draft:Dolphin Discovery (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by CopyDolphin2024 (t · c)

Tasks

• 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

Collaboration of the month

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

Copyedit/extensive work

• Draft:Terrance (octopus)

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Requests

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.

Stubs

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

Other

Pictures

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

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

Marine life articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		4	7	4		1	16
FL			1	1			2
FM					135		135
GA	4	18	17	16			55
B	3	22	16	38		2	81
C	3	38	124	514		5	684
Start	3	16	175	2,236		10	2,440
Stub		2	101	6,704		6	6,813
List			10	71		4	85
Category				1	951		952
Disambig					13		13
File					38		38
Portal					3		3
Project					16		16
Redirect		1	6	271	251		529
Template					75		75
Other					21		21
Assessed	13	101	457	9,856	1,503	28	11,958
Unassessed				2		11	13
Total	13	101	457	9,858	1,503	39	11,971
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 56,167			Ω = 5.57

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

Templates

Talk page box

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 NA‑class Top‑importance

This article is part of WikiProject Marine life, an attempt at creating a standardized, informative, comprehensive and easy-to-use resource on marine life. If you would like to participate, you can choose to edit this article, or visit the project page where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. This project is an offshoot of the WikiProject Tree of Life.Marine lifeWikipedia:WikiProject Marine lifeTemplate:WikiProject Marine lifeMarine life articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. Top This article has been rated as Top-importance on the project's importance scale. More information: /  This article has been assessed by editors of the WikiProject. The possible merging of this article has been discussed by editors of the WikiProject. This article is a candidate to be the project collaboration. This article is currently the project collaboration. This article was a past project collaboration. Marine life To do: edit history watch purge Have a look at the Marine life WikiProject and sign up. Here are some tasks you can do, as organized by The Marine life Wikiproject: Collaboration of the week: Marine life article assessment Other: See the projects page Images: Upload any non-copyrighted marine life images to Wikimedia Commons Featured Articles/Good Articles: Other: Add {{Portal|Marine life}} to related articles

Documentation for the template is provided on the template page.

General Stub templates

• {{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.

Marine life templates

• {{Marine Life Wikiproject}} =

Marine Life Wikiproject

Userbox

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Marine life/Userbox}}

This user is a member of WikiProject Marine Life.

Categories

Category:Aquatic organisms

Lists

These lists are hosted on the Marine Life Portal.

Edit List

Wikipedia surveys

Articles needing attention

• Biology pages needing attention (cleanup, expansion, wikification, expert needed, etc.)

Tools

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.