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The Fish Portal is a featured portal, which means it has been identified as one of the best portals on Wikipedia. If you see a way this portal can be updated or improved without compromising previous work, please feel free to contribute.

Portal milestones
Date	Process	Result
May 3, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
May 21, 2007	Featured portal candidate	Promoted
April 25, 2017	Featured portal review	Kept

Current status: Featured portal

Fishes

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To-do list for Portal:Fish: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2009-01-17

Recommendations to improve page to featured portal status

List includes recommendations with replies/status.

Replace the logo with an image of real fish
- Done. Image:Tuna.jpg is used.
Remove the "Web resources" section.
- Done.
Use standard "Did you know" format.
- Done.
Expand number of "Selected" content items.
- Done.
Fix layout for 800X600 displays.
- Done.
Add link/reference(s).
- External links section removed entirely per another recommendation.
DYK images.
- The current DYK format fits with the portal layout but will make sure DYK images are clear and suitable as small pics.
Fill empty space between the Selected Picture of the month and the Selected topics sections.
- Done.
Fish Portal or Fishes Portal.
- Currently it is "Fish Portal" as fish can be both singular and plural
Change "Fish lists" to "Lists", "Selected topics about fishes" to "Topics"
- Done.

Automated portal content suggestions (purge)

The following suggestions have been automatically generated as content that might be suitable for the portal, subject to review by a human editor. Please do not mindlessly copy items to the portal page without first checking that the suggestions are appropriate.

Recent Did you know? items

* ... that Chinese sculptor Pan He created the Zhuhai Fisher Girl, an icon of Zhuhai?

* ... that Chinese sculptor '''[[Pan He]]''' created the '''''[[Zhuhai Fisher Girl]]''''', an icon of [[Zhuhai]]?

* ... that the shape of Fisherman's Friend lozenges was based on the buttons on a dress worn by Doreen Lofthouse?

* ... that the shape of [[Fisherman's Friend]] lozenges was based on the buttons on a dress worn by '''[[Doreen Lofthouse]]'''?

* ... that at a maximum standard length of roughly 2 cm (0.8 in), dwarf pufferfish are some of the smallest pufferfish in the world?

* ... that at a maximum [[Fish measurement|standard length]] of roughly {{Cvt|2|cm|1}}, '''[[dwarf pufferfish]]''' are some of the smallest pufferfish in the world?

* ... that one of the largest fishing companies of New Zealand started as a fish and chip shop?

* ... that '''[[Independent Fisheries|one of the largest fishing companies]]''' of New Zealand started as a fish and chip shop?

* ... that Arthur Yorinks's children's book Louis the Fish was inspired by Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis?

* ... that '''[[Arthur Yorinks]]'''{{`s}} children's book ''Louis the Fish'' was inspired by Franz Kafka's ''[[The Metamorphosis]]''{{-?}}

* ... that small Poecilia gillii males have longer sex organs than larger males, to facilitate mating with females that flee from them?

* ... that small '''''[[Poecilia gillii]]''''' males have longer [[Fish fin#reproduction|sex organs]] than larger males, to facilitate mating with females that flee from them?

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