did You Know Nominations/Aquaculture Of Sea Cucumber

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Aquaculture of sea cucumbers

• ... that in China, the aquaculture of sea cucumbers (sea cucumber pictured) takes place together with the aquaculture of prawns, so the sea cucumbers can feed on the waste from the prawns?

Created/expanded by Dhobby (talk). Nominated by Epipelagic (talk) at 02:32, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

• Needs fivefold expansion, and was based on this fork of Sea cucumber, which was about 7,000 characters. It's not 35,000 characters long, or even half that. Which is a shame, as it's a nice article. --GRuban (talk) 13:03, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

• This is a new article, not an expansion of an old article.
The short story: The text in this article was entered into sea cucumber on 29 September 2011 by an IP who turned out to be a masters student Dhobby trying to write an article as part of a university project. S(he) added the text to an existing article where it didn't belong given its length, so I forked the additions to the new article where it does belong.

The long story: If you look at the edit history for sea cucumber you will see that on 29 September 2011 a number of IPs arrived and started adding material to the article. At first I though vandalism was involved, as different IPs came in and deleted material entered by earlier IPs. Eventually I noticed similar activity elsewhere and realized an undeclared university project was underway where masters students were each contributing something on aquaculture by expanding a stub or creating a new article. The other students have been identified, and since the standard is generally good, other editors including myself have tidied their efforts a bit and submitted them for DYKs: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
However, this particular student edited from different IPs, and inappropriately expanded an existing article with material that should have been a separate article from the outset. Two of the IPs traced back to a university, though the first one that appeared didn't, so I left this message on the the talk page for that IP on the assumption that was a stable home IP. The IP responded here as requested, where I asked him or her to create an account and let me know what it was. And that is why Dhobby is clearly the editor that should be given credit for the article. Although the rules state that the "content with which the article has been expanded must be new content, not text copied from other articles", it is clear that the point of this rule is that the expansion must be new content. In any case, the the content was not copied, it was simply removed from the sea cucumber article and transferred to the correct article. --Epipelagic (talk) 02:41, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
Aha. Got it. Good work, all of you! Then: Check for Article and Hook. Image, unfortunately, isn't used in the article. Fixed easily enough - either stick in the article, or use one of the several fine images from the article, or just go without the image. One more thing - can you decide whether to use "sea cucumber" or "sea cucumbers" as the plural form, and stick to it throughout? There are several places each are used in the article, and even here in the nomination. --GRuban (talk) 13:42, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

• Requested changes made. --Epipelagic (talk) 21:48, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
• Should the article be aquaculture of sea cucumbers then? --GRuban (talk) 21:59, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
• The guidelines say article titles should generally be singular in form. --Epipelagic (talk) 22:20, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
• "Aquaculture" is singular. But as you write yourself in the nomination, it can't be "Aquaculture of sea cucumber" it has to be "Aquaculture of sea cucumbers". Another alternative is "Sea cucumber aquaculture", that could work. --GRuban (talk) 23:10, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

• Okay, it's now Aquaculture of sea cucumbers. I guess sea cucumbers is just a qualifier of aquaculture, which can be regarded as singular. --Epipelagic (talk) 01:16, 5 October 2011 (UTC)