Talk:Coral/GA1

Good article nomination

Hi there. This is an excellent article with very good illustrations. Some small things to tidy up though, before the nomination goes through.

General comments

• The intro is a little too technical for the "general reader" we are told to aim for. I had a go at simplifying this but this isn't my field.
• Not really enough references. No refs at all in Geological history or Uses and they are a bit sparse elsewhere.

Specific comments

• Lophelia, do not have associated algae, and can live in much deeper water, with recent finds as deep as 3000 m. Needs a reference since it is a direct reference to sombody's publication.
• The copyright tag for the Nematocyst figure has expired.
• The coral life cycles figure would display better as a SVG image.
• "What we see as a coral is a head of many individual, yet genetically identical, polyps." This seems a clunky sentence. Would "assembly" be a good substitute for "head"?
• "Calciferous" is used before it is defined.
• Try to avoid using "this" or "these" when multiple things are being discussed, it can be unclear what "this" is to your reader.
• division forms two polyps as large as the original Doesn't binary division forms two offspring each half as large as the parent?
• They are so sensitive to their environment that, for example, if someone was to cut themselves on a coral cut it would be of a high risk of infection. I don't understand this sentence.

Overall excellent. I learnt a lot from this. TimVickers 01:03, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Since none of these points were addressed, the nomination failed. I encourage you to deal with these relatively minor points and re-submit. TimVickers 03:54, 7 September 2006 (UTC)