Talk:Ocean Conservancy

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Article requests : List of oceanographers, create a comprehensive article on Concentrations of marine debris out of all the gyre and "garbage patch" articles
Copyedit : Draft:Terrance (octopus)
Expand : Coral Sea, Endeavour Strait, Greenland Sea, Solomon Sea
Photo : find images for Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in the oceans
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Update : Botany Bay, Wilkins Sound, Mariana Trench, Challenger Deep
Verify : Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Bering Sea, Gulf of Aden, Iceberg B-15, Ionian Sea, Japan Trench, Moreton Bay, Sound (geography), Timor Sea
Other : add ISBNs and remove excessive or inappropriate external links from Aral Sea; check La Belle (ship) for GA status; improve citations or footnotes and remove excessive or inappropriate external links from MS Estonia

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Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment[edit]

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 6 January 2020 and 25 April 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Rociobp7.

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Board of directors[edit]

I removed the Board of Directors section, that information is readily available at their website (to which I added a link) plus it will always be kept up-to-date there. Likewise I took out the section with the 2010 budget. Rissa, Guild of Copy Editors (talk) 03:43, 31 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism looks very bare bones[edit]

The criticism section looks very bare bones. I'm worried that without a more fleshed out criticism section (and with the lengthy list of accomplishments), this article leans towards bias/promotionalism. Toad02 (talk) 19:47, 1 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Sources[edit]

Almost every source I have been able to check has not existed or did not support the claim it was being used to support. I have nor read through all sources (some aren't links as well), but I have extreme doubts about the quality of the sources. Additionally, after I cut out the bad citations, many sections are now supported only by self published sources. Toad02 (talk) 14:39, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have now checked every link on this page. The vast majority were errors, redirects to nothing, or did not support what they were being used to support. I cannot check the non-web sources, but I have serious doubts as to their validity. There is also a chance that this massive amount of errors is some network issue, so I would appreciate an editor who did not add them to check over some of the ones I deleted. Toad02 (talk) 16:09, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

This also leads me to questions about the bias of this page. Almost all of the faulty citation supported the organization directly, and none of it was used for criticism. Although it was likely just a series of mistakes, the sheer volume of false information makes me wonder. Toad02 (talk) 16:15, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I've deleted most material with these erroneous citations. If you believe it should be tagged with citation needed instead, feel free to make that revert before discussing it on the talk page (I won't tag you for edit warring of whatever). Toad02 (talk) 17:42, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]