Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aquarium Fishes/to do

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• Standardize on class Actinopterygii, not Osteichthyes (see Special:Whatlinkshere/Osteichthyes)
• Of Argentinidae:
  • Expand Argentina silus --
    Greater Argentine
  • Argentina sphyraena -- Argentina (fish)
• Of Chimaera:
  • Elephantfish, Callorhinchus callorynchus (image:Callorhinchus callorynchus.jpg)

What does this mean: "Standardize on class Actinopterygii (not Osteichthyes): Chimaera"? Chimaera is not in either Actinopterygii or Osteichthyes. Koumz (talk) 22:10, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

• Categorise fish down to lowest relevant taxa (not by species though) according to continental region (or ocean)
  • Using Actinopterygii as a guide, done as far down as Superorder Ostariophysi (only to order level as yet) (still doing)HappyVR 16:01, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Sarcopterygii not started.
• Expand on
  Barb (fish species)
  stub page dealing with a fish with barb in the common name
• Expand and wikify Ryukin and Goldfish
• Expand fishing industry
• Could someone who knows about Tuna please take a look at the discussion on Talk:Northern bluefin tuna
• Expand Ostariophysi.
• Expand Fish anatomy and Fish locomotion.
• Peer reviews:
  • Ostariophysi
  • Convict cichlid
  • Ram cichlid
  • Parapterois
• Create subfamiliy articles for Cichlidae.
  featured article review
  and these subfamily articles would be helpful.
  • Geophaginae
  • Cichlasomatinae
  • Retroculinae
  • Cichlinae
  • Astronotinae
  • Pseudocrenilabrinae
  • Etroplinae
• Translation of
  featured article review
• Try to get Aquarium back to FA status

Adding the {{copyedit}} template to a page will direct the attention of WP's copy editors to the page. We have approximately bimonthly drives that improve thousands of articles. Lfstevens (talk) 17:02, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I noticed what seems to be a crying need on Wikipedia and write this here today to ask you to fill this gap. While I gather that there have been enough studies on the subject of wild guppies, the article Guppy knows practically nothing about them; almost the entire article is about the domesticated strains. What of their life in the wild? How different are they from the more familiar domesticated strains? What do they eat, how have they evolved, what predators do they have, and what of their place in their native ecosystem? Eventually, there might be enough to split the articles and allow one to consentrate on the aquarium fish and another about their wild cousins. In addition, I have seen on Google Scholar studies done about feral guppies, another thing the article knows nothing about. Guppy is a pretty good article about an aquarium fish, but that's not all guppies are. Thanks! Chrisrus (talk) 05:33, 6 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I started an article on Lucania goodei and would like it to be added to the list of articles that need to be expanded.Mmyers1976 (talk) 15:26, 3 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I was reading this article today and it is missing a section about the biology and ecology of the fish. For such an important fish it seems like a large omission. Also there are several typos, etc. The article mostly focuses on conservation and threats to the species. If you look at the one on atlantic salmon for example, it is of much higher quality and much more complete.

Just uploaded a series of photographs of several species of Lethrinus and Gymnocranius, including several recently (2010 and 2013) described species. A good opportunity for ichthyologists who want to create new pages. Jeanloujustine (talk) 21:14, 9 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Here are some tasks you can do, as organized by the WikiProject Aquarium Fishes, if you are interested, please sign up on the project page. You are welcome to also add new tasks or remove the old ones. De-Orphan: Violet line piranha Black Phantom Tetra Add taxobox: Develop featured article: Aquarium, Cichlid Berney's shark catfish Article request: We're trying to clean up the species list bit by bit. We're currently on Catfish. Australian shark catfish Arius graeffei, Two spot glass catfish Ompok bimaculatus, Spotted pimelodus Tire track eel, Agamyxis, Pseudomystus, Bagrichthys, Leiarius, Dekeyseria, Leporacanthicus, Pseudacanthicus, Acanthicus, Hoplosternum littorale, Callichthys callichthys, Scleromystax (Upload any non-copyrighted fish images to the appropriate section of Wikimedia Commons ) Identify species in the picture: (Identify and move the images to the appropriate section of Wikimedia Commons) Collaboration: Fishkeeping Other: See the Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aquarium Fishes/to do page If you have any question, comment or suggestion, please discuss here.

I would like to edit the article on Redeye tetra. Since I am quite new to Wikipedia, I have some questions:

1. The talk page has a note that says "I am a specialist on Tetras and all this information is correct." Am I right that it should be removed?
2. The reference that I plan to cite does not use the term "redeye tetra" but "yellow-banded tetra"; nevertheless, it refers to the same scientific name (Moenkhausia sanctaefilomenae) and the photo of the fish in the article and in the reference I am using look the same. Is it safe to assume that my reference is referring to the same fish?

LaivineOrodrim (talk) 11:14, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, and welcome to the project! I've long been watching this project closely, but over the past few years it's pretty much gotten to where it's just me, so the project is borderline inactive. I think it is great to have someone new taking an interest, and I welcome you working on that page! That message on the talk page was just some troll, so I removed it. I've put the page on my watchlist, so I'll keep an eye on it and I'll fix any edit you make that might need fixing. But I'm sure what you do will be a welcome improvement. (Just remember that Wikipedia has

WP:AQUAHOWTO

for a workaround.)

I checked, and from what I can see redeye tetra is the

WP:COMMONNAME for the species, and yellow-banded tetra is a less common alternative name, but they are the same species. --Tryptofish (talk) 19:17, 15 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

]

Thank you very much! That's very encouraging. I made edits to the article. I do not know if I did them properly because like I said I am rather new here. LaivineOrodrim (talk) 11:40, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Great! I made some further edits, which you can see. Feel free to ask me why I did any of those things. Also, because

Yellow-banded tetra is now in bold font, I created a redirect for it. --Tryptofish (talk) 21:25, 16 April 2023 (UTC)[reply

]

Thanks again for the encouragement! I will look at articles on other species to see if I can edit them. LaivineOrodrim (talk) 08:06, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

BTW, how do you put in the message templates, like the notices that an article needs further citations? LaivineOrodrim (talk) 08:08, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The way we put those messages in, is as templates, which are typed in the edit window using {{ }} brackets around the name of the template and any parameters for how it will be displayed. In this case I used the template called "More citations needed section", and if you go to Template:More citations needed section#Usage, you can see examples of how to type it in the edit window. There's a complete list of these kinds of templates, grouped by what you might want to use them for, at Wikipedia:Template index. --Tryptofish (talk) 18:33, 17 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]