Talk:Izak catshark

Izak catshark has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

Article milestones
Date	Process	Result
September 11, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed

Sharks Low‑importance

	Sharks portal 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
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Fishes Low‑importance

	Fish portal 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
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Copyright problem removed

This article was based on the corresponding article at fishbase.org or niwascience.co.naz, neither of which are compatibly licensed for Wikipedia. It has been revised on this date as part of a large-scale project to remove infringement from these sources. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. (For background on this situation, please see the related administrator's noticeboard discussion and the cleanup task force subpage.) Thank you. -- ascidian | talk-to-me 13:42, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Izak catshark/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: J Milburn (talk • contribs • count) 20:53, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hope you don't mind me taking on this one, too- just to reiterate, you're completely welcome to ask me to take a step back if you feel an article would benefit from a review from someone else. J Milburn (talk) 20:54, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"of catshark, family Scyliorhinidae," If you're looking to imply that "catshark" and "Scyliorhinidae" are synonymous, which is what our article implies, perhaps brackets/parenthesis would be the way to go, the same as with "The Izak catshark (or simply Izak, Holohalaelurus regani)"
- Maybe, though I prefer the commas as I think having multiple parentheses in the first line looks bad.
  - Perhaps then a link to Scyliorhinidae in the lead? J Milburn (talk) 15:59, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - Added.
"The Izak catshark is not utilized by humans. It is regularly caught incidentally by a bottom trawl commercial fishery within its range, but despite the fishing pressure its population has been increasing." I think this could read a little better
- Rearranged the sentences
"off the west coast, in areas with a wider continental shelf." Both the areas listed? Or are they the same thing? It's not clear right now.
- Rearranged it to make it clearer
"This species often has nematode and/or flatworm parasites in its stomach." I'm not sure "and/or" is great writing
- Changed to "and"s, which I feel is semantically less precise but such is style.
"(see below)" Avoid self references
- Removed
"and/or" Again
"Nevertheless, it merits continued population monitoring because of its highly restricted range." This is something of a judgement rather than a fact; could it perhaps be attributed in the prose?
- Merged with previous sentence to attribute to the IUCN
"Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds." These names are given in a different way to others.
- That's a function of the FishBase template; I can replace it manually if it's a sticky issue
  - Consistency would be good. J Milburn (talk) 15:59, 10 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - OK, replaced with manual version.
What does "Izak" mean?
- Don't have any info on this, other than it's apparently a proper noun of some sort

I've added some categories and made some small edits, but, for the most part, this one's looking about right. I'm also going to take a look through some sources to see if there's anything you've missed/any other sources that should be included. J Milburn (talk) 21:27, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Let me know of further issues. -- Yzx (talk) 03:53, 9 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The article's looking very nice. A search around threw up nothing of note that wasn't in the article. Ticks all the boxes, I'm promoting now- Good work! J Milburn (talk) 21:53, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the review. -- Yzx (talk) 23:23, 11 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]