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June 29, 2006Peer reviewReviewed
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July 22, 2006WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
March 31, 2007Featured article candidateNot promoted
April 5, 2009Good article reassessmentKept
April 18, 2018Good article reassessmentDelisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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Semi-protected edit request on 24 January 2016

Add semi lock. 122.62.45.15 (talk) 23:01, 24 January 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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"Death" of the Great Barrier Reef

Since this is outside my area of knowledge I'm not attempting to add this in any way. However, social media has been buzzing with declarations of the reef being officially "dead". Now, that's just social media, and the links I've seen don't appear to be the best, POV-wise. Is there any basis to this? (And I'm hoping not for obvious reasons). Have actual reputable sources covered this at all, and if so, is it worth mentioning? It's recentism, but I did come to the article to see if there was any non-hyperbolic info on this, other than the sections on pollution and bleaching. freshacconci talk to me 16:24, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Found my own answer, of sorts. Apparently, scientists are taking note of the social media reports and are not happy about the claims. Should this be included, somehow? It may be moving towards the point where it is part of the Reef's narrative. freshacconci talk to me 16:41, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I've seen this around as well - this page is locked to all but autoconfirmed, but I suggest adding the current-related tag since this has popped up throughout social media today. I added it in without much of a rationale (my bad), but I'll add it back in since this covers my concerns (the current related tag lets viewers know this information is changing and not necessarily reputable). Garchy (talk) 20:44, 14 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system[1][2] composed of over 2,900 individual reefs[3] and 900 islands stretching for over 2,300 kilometres (1,400 mi) over an area of approximately 344,400 square kilometres (133,000 sq mi).[4][5] The reef is located in the Coral Sea, off the coast of Queensland, Australia.

The Great Barrier Reef can be seen from outer space and is the world's biggest single structure made by living organisms.[6] This reef structure is composed of and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps.[7] It supports a wide diversity of life and was selected as a World Heritage Site in 1981.[1][2] CNN labelled it one of the seven natural wonders of the world.[8] The Queensland National Trust named it a state icon of Queensland.[9]

A large part of the reef is protected by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which helps to limit the impact of human use, such as fishing and tourism. Other environmental pressures on the reef and its ecosystem include runoff, climate change accompanied by mass coral bleaching, and cyclic population outbreaks of the crown-of-thorns starfish. According to a study published in October 2012 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the reef has lost more than half its coral cover since 1985. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8085:3040:680:4430:CE5C:55EC:3CCD (talk) 14:31, 3 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Individual reassessment

GA Reassessment

This discussion is transcluded from Talk:Great Barrier Reef/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the reassessment.

There has been a request on WP:GAR to reassess this article since 2015. Looks like adding some references is the biggest thing that needs to occur; I will identify everything during the reassessment, which will be occurring over the next week. Kees08 (Talk) 19:16, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar

  • Rephrase:
    • "an event that the authors put down to the effects of global climate change."

Images

  • [[File:Part of Great Barrier Reef from Helecopter.JPG]]
    • I requested a move, so none of you have to deal with that (helicopter is spelled wrong)
  • [[File:GreatBarrierReef-EO.JPG]]
    • Please replace with an extracted image from [[File:GreatBarrierReef-PIA03401.jpg]]. The current image says the image is 'probably' this image, but it would be better to properly extract from the source image.
  • [[File:Great Barrier Reef (aerial view).JPG]]
    • Can we get this transferred to Commons? Not required for GA, this is just extra credit
  • [[File:GBReef_TempChlorophyll_200602.jpg]]
    • Source is a redirect, needs to work
Added archive. Hanif Al Husaini (talk) 17:07, 8 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  • The rest of the images seem to be fine (captions etc)

Citations

  • Does not matter for GA, but if the statements are not controversial (like the size of the reef), the citations can just be in the article instead of the intro.
  • The management section needs additional citations, I can provide specifics if need be
  • Address the citation needed and unreliable source tags
  • Expand citations to include at least publisher and access date

I am going to wait on assessing the rest of the article until these have been addressed. Kees08 (Talk) 20:44, 14 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Kees08: Just a friendly reminder that this is still open. AIRcorn (talk) 00:19, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Hanif Al Husaini: Do you have any interest to work on addressing the GAR comments? Otherwise I will be demoting the article in the near future. Thanks! Kees08 (Talk) 00:20, 26 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Kees08: Hanif has been editing since your reminder so it is probably safe to assume they have lost interest. AIRcorn (talk) 00:52, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If you need a hand to close this let me know and I will help how I can. AIRcorn (talk) 00:53, 18 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, I closed it just now. Would be great if we had an assisted way to do that someday, a lot of pages to edit! Kees08 (Talk) 11:12, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Kees08: You might want to add your support/comments here. AIRcorn (talk) 20:24, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 19 January 2018

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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Sakura CarteletTalk 22:43, 19 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Missing information that contradicts global warming threat

The reef moves every year and where it is now used to be above ground. The reef can recover quite easily from change. However there doesn't appear to be a contrary side of the article than of that to climate change. There is even a separate article for climate change on the reef. These are common to the reasons I don't use Wikipedia. [1]

We'll miss you then. But you are omitting the fact that the same article says the reef may not recover from this. --Dmol (talk) 06:54, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ https://www.yahoo.com/news/great-barrier-reef-sixth-life-30-000-years-155408981.html. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

Potential contradiction regarding effects of temperature.

There are many places in this article where there is discussion of the dire effects of increasing water temperatures on the Reef, and how the reef itself is in danger from them. That would appear to be totally at odds with this statement:

"In addition, approximately 400,000 years ago there was a particularly warm interglacial period with higher sea levels and a 4 °C (7 °F) water temperature change." So, the reef survived a 4°C increase then, but is in danger from a current change of less than half of that now?? Can someone explain this, please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.191.164.198 (talk) 08:34, 12 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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