Talk:Grey nurse shark

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An article on the Eastern Grey Nurse Shark in the Life supplement of The Guardian, from 17th February, records the gestation period as about twelve months, but also points out that no one is quite sure how long it takes. Chenxlee 16:32, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Name

I know the article does say 'Sand Tiger' as another name, but wouldn't this be better kept under Sand Tiger than 'Grey Nurse'? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.162.31.148 (talk) 03:08, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

For fish article we use WP:FISH#Fish names and article titles as the rule, and since fishbase call it sand tiger so do we. --Stefan ^talk 06:05, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

I don't understand. You're saying we call it Sand Tiger Shark but the article is at Grey Nurse Shark. Shouldn't it be moved to Sand Tiger? --67.162.31.148 (talk) 01:40, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm saying, as per the article, it is called grey nurse in Australia, spotted ragged-tooth in Africa and sand tiger in the US and UK, all is correct, wikipedia is international and WP:FISH have stated that we should use then name that fishbase uses, fish base calls this shark grey nurse shark so therefore the page is correctly named, sand tiger and spotted ragged-tooth both have redirect. --Stefan ^talk 02:26, 17 March 2008 (UTC)