Talk:Leopard shark

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August 19, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

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The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the leopard shark (pictured) feeds on anchovies by swimming into their schools with its mouth open and waiting for them to accidentally enter?

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Requested move[edit]

Triakis semifasciata → Leopard shark – Common english names are the standard for species. The current disambiguation page is not necessary - it can be dealt with by a {{distinguish}} tag at the top of each of the pages Yomangani ^talk 13:18, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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Oppose - like so many common names, "leopard shark" is ambiguous, being used in Australia ([1]) and elsewhere ([2]) also for Stegostoma fasciatum. --Stemonitis 10:55, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Only 2 sharks involved (are there more?), the other has its own common name (zebra) already. Let's not break the standard whereby common names used where they exist. I support Yomangani's {{distinguish}} tag suggestion. GrahamBould 14:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Hard one, I call zebra shark, leopard shark, but I know that it is wrong, scientific name is not most common and fishbase calls them according to move proposal, I say we go with fishbase, put {{distinguish}} on the page, that would be the correct way of doing it. Stefan 13:32, 22 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion[edit]

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Page moved. Fl owerparty^☀ 02:08, 25 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Maximum size?[edit]

What's the maximum size? 7 ft (2.12 m) or 71 inch (1.80 m)? Currently the article does contradict itself. --KnightMove (talk) 14:55, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move[edit]

Leopard shark (hound shark) → Leopard shark — The recent change of Leopard shark to a disambig page is unnecessary; the name "leopard shark" is really only used for two species, Triakis semifasciata and Stegostoma fasciatum, and the latter already has a perfectly good (and unique) name, zebra shark, whereas T. semifasciata is known as "leopard shark" worldwide. There's no ethnocentrism here, because everywhere that S. fasciatum is known as "leopard shark", "zebra shark" is also accepted as an alternate name. Yzx (talk) 10:07, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have taken the liberty of requesting the deletion of the disambig. page and reversing this rather odd move [3]. This is a speedier process than WP:RM. Rgrds. --Tombstone (talk) 16:52, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Y Done by admin WereSpielChequers. --Tombstone (talk) 01:28, 21 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

GA Review[edit]

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OK, I will begin a review and make straightforward copyediting changes as I go. Please revert if I inadvertently change the meaning. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 08:40, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

An active-swimming predator, groups of leopard sharks often follow... - a singular subject, then plural - looks odd --> need to make them the same. You can be creative.

Changed. -- Yzx (talk) 04:12, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

between sharks in different parts of its range. - ditto

Changed. -- Yzx (talk) 04:12, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

~~There are some other examples of singular and plural in the one sentence. Generally using singular looks best as a default option unless one is talking about a group of critters.~~

Could you be more specific? Which ones? -- Yzx (talk) 04:12, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'll find some. Casliber (talk · contribs) 05:05, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

In the northern parts of its range, females use bays and sloughs as nursery areas, while to the south they give birth in more open areas - (s/p/p)

Changed. -- Yzx (talk) 21:52, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Leopard sharks are wary of humans and pose almost no danger. - This sentence has bugged me, but I can't for the life of me think of a smoother way to say it.

Overall, pretty good and nearly there. Have a go at singularising some of the sharks and I'll be back later to help out. Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:47, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Leopard sharks are wary of humans and pose almost no danger. - there are two problems:

There is an expected indirect object, as in "... pose danger to something" (in this case, 'to humans', but the repetition reads even worse than the missing object).
The second half of the sentence is a consequence of the first, but the bare conjunction "and" doesn't convey the causality.

The best I can suggest for the sentence is: Leopard sharks are wary of humans and so pose almost no danger. Sorry, that's not much help. --RexxS (talk) 16:49, 18 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps: Wary and quick to flee, leopard sharks pose almost no danger to humans.? -- Yzx (talk)

Nevermind, actually the last version above is probably the best. I'll leave it to you - no deal-breakers left so I figure yer over the line and the article is GA standard :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 04:20, 19 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Maximum range[edit]

I think the 'maximum range' of the shark needs to be updated. We seem to have them on the east coast of the Australia now. [4]. Nford24 (PE121 Personnel Request Form) 05:13, 25 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Requested move[edit]

Please add class Vertebrata, see link: https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Triakis_semifasciata/classification/ --Ͱερμες 12:20, 19 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]