Talk:Northern river shark

A fact from Northern river shark appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 15 January 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that no more than 250 mature northern river sharks are estimated to live in the wild? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/January.

This article is rated C-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:

Fishes Low‑importance This article is part of WikiProject Fishes, an attempt to organise a detailed guide to all topics related to Fish taxa. To participate, you can edit the attached article, or contribute further at WikiProject Fishes. This project is an offshoot of the WikiProject Tree of Life.FishesWikipedia:WikiProject FishesTemplate:WikiProject FishesFishes articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. Sharks Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sharks, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of sharks on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SharksWikipedia:WikiProject SharksTemplate:WikiProject Sharksshark articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. Australia: Northern Territory / Western Australia / Biota Low‑importance Northern river shark is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Northern Territory (assessed as Low-importance). This article is supported by WikiProject Western Australia (assessed as Low-importance). This article is supported by WikiProject Australian biota (assessed as Low-importance). Need help improving this article? Ask a LibrarianWhat's this? at the National Library of Australia, or the State Library of Western Australia, or the Northern Territory Library. The Wikimedia Australia chapter can be contacted via email to helpwikimedia.org.au for non-editorial assistance. Papua New Guinea Low‑importance This article is within the scope of WikiProject Papua New Guinea, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Papua New Guinea on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Papua New GuineaWikipedia:WikiProject Papua New GuineaTemplate:WikiProject Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea articles Low This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale.

The article includes "... taken some 60 km up the

, in 1996, and in 1999, five females and two males from the East, West and South Alligator Rivers, in brackish water, ..."

Is there really a South Alligator River in PNG as well as the East, West and South Alligator Rivers which are all in the Northern Territory of Australia (see Alligator Rivers)?

Also, why is this called a New Guinea river shark when most or all have been seen in Australia? --Scott Davis ^Talk 10:26, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This article has been revised as part of the large-scale clean-up project of a massive copyright infringement on Wikipedia. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept

for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously.

For more information on this situation, which involved a single contributor liberally copying material from print and internet sources into several thousand articles, please see the two administrators' noticeboard discussions of the matter,

]

File:Norte-tiburonfluvial.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion

An image used in this article, File:Norte-tiburonfluvial.jpg, has been nominated for speedy deletion at Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Copyright violations What should I do? Don't panic; deletions can take a little longer at Commons than they do on Wikipedia. This gives you an opportunity to contest the deletion (although please review Commons guidelines before doing so). The best way to contest this form of deletion is by posting on the image talk page. If the image is non-free then you may need to upload it to Wikipedia (Commons does not allow fair use) If the image isn't freely licensed and there is no fair use rationale then it cannot be uploaded or used. If the image has already been deleted you may want to try Commons Undeletion Request This notification is provided by a Bot -- talk) 11:05, 5 September 2011 (UTC)[reply ]