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This WikiProject is about Sharks. The aim of the project is to write a good article of every known shark species out there (all 368 or however many there are :-)), as well as to write articles about shark-specific topics such as biology, etc. (including fiction) articles. Since there are so many sharks and so little is known about most of them, the project will focus on writing good consistent articles for the most common sharks first, and then branch out into articles on lesser-known species. This project would also be a good place to collaborate on other general articles having to do with sharks (scale types, orthodontia, symbiosis, Shark attack, shark POD, etc.)...

• (14/10/2005) Started to work on project page.
• (29/06/2006) Added to List of proposed projects
• (29/06/2006) Created Portal:Sharks any help on maintaining it appreciated.
• (10/08/2006) The project is now moved from user space and is now official!
• (22/08/2006) Oceanic whitetip shark article was nominated featured article!!
• (05/09/2006) Collaboration of the Fortnight and assessment pages added.
• (12/09/2006) New {{Shark-stub}} and Category:Shark stubs to replace Fish-stub on shark articles
• (26/07/2007) Oceanic whitetip shark on the main page!

Note that some of the listings here may not need much work - one could regard the lack of standard headings as for making a more "personal" and less boilerplatish article

• make project page and define goals and priorities
• make distribution maps! FishBase have distribution map, can get direct link in fishbase names as aquamap for some species, there are a few other places that have also, search in google, trouble is that they are not very consistent :-(
• Do pages of all families, many done, but still many missing.
• Fix pages where we have same name on family and a species in that family and now redirects back and forth, make sure we have independent articles for each species and family. (example nurse shark nurse sharks which used to be redirects to each other.
• Reference articles, most have no references at all in the text.
• De-redlink pages where there is never (never say never) going to be a page for the species e.g. wobbegong

Articles to be merged

• 20 May 2024 – Carcharomodus (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Carcharomodus escheri by Kodiak Blackjack (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)

Shark articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	2	4	1			8
GA	4	3	30	46			83
B	2	3	6	50			61
C	1	5	8	42			56
Start	9	5	31	161		1	207
Stub			8	526			534
List	1	1	3	14		1	20
Category					195		195
Disambig					7		7
File					2		2
Portal					2		2
Project					23		23
Redirect			1	30	39		70
Template					20		20
Other					3		3
Assessed	18	19	91	870	291	2	1,291
Unassessed				1			1
Total	18	19	91	871	291	2	1,292
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 4,817			Ω = 5.07

Requests

Leave any requests you have or have found elsewhere here.

Gordon Hubbell

Shark Behavior

Shark Mythology

List of fatal shark attacks, worldwide

Stubs

These articles are very short and may only include a sentence or two. Have a look at Category:Shark stubs for others.

• Leonard Compagno - I created this to mend all the redlinks in the references, but I can't say it is more than a stub. Yomangani 10:26, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
• Shark Trust

Expand

These articles are not listed as stubs but are only just about long enough to escape being so. Any help expanding these would be appreciated.

• Finback catshark
• Slender smooth-hound
• Proscylliidae

Copyedit/Formatting

These articles may have enough text but are poorly formatted and may have spelling mistakes.

• Jacques-Yves_Cousteau
• Hans Hass

Patrol for vandalism

Have a look at the recent changes for the watchlist (pages from Category:Sharks and Category:WikiProject Sharks)

Investigate

Check items needing attention for some problems with articles and possible additions.

Collaboration

The current Sharks Collaboration of the fortnight is "Great white shark". To nominate or vote for an article visit the collaboration page.

The Sharks Collaboration of the Fortnight is a collaborative effort to improve shark-related articles, in order to help them reach featured-article standards. Anyone, no matter what their level of knowledge about sharks, is welcome to lend a hand. Each fortnight, an article is chosen by people interested in the topic, and for the next fortnight the chosen article is worked on, under Wikipedia's principle of collaborative editing. This provides a single article for people to concentrate their efforts on collaboratively.

Article assessment is the process by which shark related articles are sorted into different qualities. Assessment is done through the assessment page.

Starting a new article

Most of the new articles that need to be made are for species. Article titles should be determined using the guidelines at WP:FISH (naming guidelines). If you are unsure which name to use, you can discuss it with other members in the discussion section.

What might be included in a shark article

This is a template shark article with the headers and format of article. Please use and try to reformat the current article so that they look the same, if there are additional headers please add them where appropriate.

Images

Images in JPG or PNG format are very welcome, although the latter format is not as good for photographs. For public domain resources try the American National Oceanic and Atomospheric Administration, particularly the National Marine Fisheries Historic Image Collection. (this is for whales/dolphins, must check if they have shark pictures or find good source)

See the commons category for images: Selachimorpha.

Categories

The top level category for shark articles is Category:Sharks but within this are several other categories that might be more relevant to the article. Listing species under the Order name and Family name as well as Category:Sharks would be best as then it can be found easily.

These are just some of the categories currently in existence, if another category fits the article better you could always make it.

• Category:Sharks
  • Category:Carcharhiniformes
  • Category:Fictional sharks
  • Category:Heterodontiformes
  • Category:Hexanchiformes
  • Category:Lamniformes
  • Category:Orectolobiformes
  • Category:Pristiophoriformes
  • Category:Squaliformes
  • Category:Squatiniformes

Some other categories (outside Category:Sharks) that may be relevant are:

• Category:Viviparous fish
• Category:Ovoviviparous fish
• Category:Ichthyologists
• Category:Marine biology
• Category:Animal anatomy

Talk page templateedit

This template is for adding to the top of talk pages to inform people of the Project. It also serves as an information box communicating to users what the articles status is within the project. For information on using the advanced features see the template disccussion page.

Sharks NA‑class

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 NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Use: {{WikiProject Sharks}}

Shark stub templateedit

Articles that are very short and are classed as a stub should have this template added to the bottom of the page. This also adds the page to Category:Shark stubs.

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

• v
• t
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Use: {{Shark-stub}}

Collaborationedit

This template updates to the current Collaboration of the Fortnight.

The current Sharks Collaboration of the fortnight is "Great white shark". To nominate or vote for an article visit the collaboration page.

Use: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Sharks/Collaboration/SharksCOTF}}
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