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WikiProject Fishes to do list

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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

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WikiProject Aquarium Fishes to do list

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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:
  • Copyedit: Tetra, Lionchu, Blackline penguinfish, Flowerhorn, Pterophyllum, Chinese hillstream loach (Beaufortia kweichowensis), Violet line piranha
  • Expand: Yellow-tailed Damselfish, Gold Spot Pleco, List of aquarium diseases, Headstander, Brachygobius, Red-tailed black shark, Osphronemus, Freshwater aquarium, Thick-Lipped Gourami, Pseudochromis diadema, Striped Raphael catfish, Platydoras, Twospot turkeyfish, Agamyxis, Red eye tetra, Saddleback clownfish,Hemigrammus pulcher, Emperor tetra (Nematobrycon palmeri), Flying Fox (fish) (Epalzeorhynchos kalopterus), Rainbow shark (Epalzeorhynchos frenatum), Myxocyprinus asiaticusMacrognathus siamensis, Badis badis, Black Phantom Tetra
  • Add taxobox:
  • Develop featured article: Aquarium, Cichlid
  • Peer review: Arius berneyi 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
  • Picture request: Clown knifefish, Peters' elephantnose fish, Buenos Aires tetra, Croaking gourami, Pygmy gourami, Fire eel, Zebra pleco, Hypancistrus, Sorubim, Brachyplatystoma, Xenomystus nigri, Peckoltia, Hemiancistrus,Snakeskin gourami, Farlowella acus (current images are copyrighted), Farlowella (current image is copyrighted), Brachygobius xanthozona, Brachygobius, Columbian Tetra, 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.

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    Editing the Article on Redeye Tetra

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    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 a policy against how-to instructions, so we don't write about aquarium care in a how-to way; see 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