# Talk:Great hammerhead

On what sort of scale do conservation efforts need to be acted on in order to stop the decline of hammerhead sharks.--Jamccurdy17 (talk) 01:54, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
Thats one cool shark —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spockinator2004 (talk • contribs) 21:31, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

What's that gotta do with the article? Weirdy 09:30, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
It says 'Asian market' and delicay of 'Asians', but it is generally a Chinese thing is it not?[[(talk) 10:27, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

This review is transcluded from Talk:Great hammerhead/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.
Hi, I am reviewing this article for GA. It is a generally good article. I have a few comments regarding   the prose which I am sure you can easily address.  —Mattisse (Talk) 22:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Comments
"prey items" - prey is enough, "items" is unnecessary - so I have removed "items"
OK
the cephalofoil functions to pin down stingrays, - what does "pin down" mean? I interpreted it to mean that it kept the population of stingrays down, but then in the article I see you mean literally pin down. I don't think this wording is good for the lead.
Changed to "immobilize"; open to other suggestions
"The great hammerhead was first described as Zygaena mokarran in 1837 by the German naturalist Eduard Rüppell, who changed it to Sphyrna mokarran later that year" - what is "it"
"It" being the name; made it explicit
"However, for a long time" - vague, not encyclopedic wording
Changed to "over 200 years"
"coined" - are scientific names coined?
In the sense that the person who describes it picks the name, yes
"The lectotype for this species is a male from the Red Sea." - what does this mean?
A lectotype is a specimen chosen after a species has already been described, to serve as the type specimen for that species - I thought it'd be distracting to explain all this in the article
"the ancestral condition" - unclear what this means
The ancestral condition is the trait exhibited by the ancestors, in this case it means the earliest hammerheads had large cephalofoils - reworded to make this clearer
"Its presence is uncertain off Gambia, Guinea, Mauritania, Sierra Leone," - what does this mean?
It's what the IUCN report says; I'd interpret it as meaning that there are large hammerheads in those regions suspected to be great hammerheads, but identification is not 100% certain - I reworded the sentence
"documented as moving closer to the poles in the summer" - is this both north & south poles?
Yes - they follow warming water in the summer, which means northward in the northern hemisphere and southward in the southern hemisphere
Hope my notes are clear!
—Mattisse (Talk) 22:33, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Addressed comments; not sure whether you wanted me to change things for some of them or not. -- Yzx (talk) 23:13, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
You have done a good job.  —Mattisse (Talk) 23:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
Final GA review (see here for criteria)
It is reasonably well written.
a (prose): Clearly written  b (MoS): Follows the main MoS elements 

It is factually accurate and verifiable.
a (references): References are good  b (citations to reliable sources): They are reliable  c (OR): No OR 

It is broad in its coverage.
a (major aspects): Covers major areas  b (focused): Remains focused on the topic 

It follows the neutral point of view policy.
Fair representation without bias: NPOV 

It is stable.
No edit wars etc.: 

It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales):  b (appropriate use with suitable captions): 

Overall:
Pass/Fail: 

Congratulations! Good work.
—Mattisse (Talk) 23:30, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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