Talk:African coral reefs

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I've been making some efforts to imporive the original article by TheNatureMan20, but I am truly struggling to find references which refer to the coral reefs of east Africa as a single, unitary "African Coral Reef". It doesn't help that the primary source for the article (The Encyclopedia of Wildlife and the Sea, published by Weldon Owen) is a children's reference book, to which I have no access (not on Google books, and I can 't get a copy through my local library), so I can't even see what the article's creator used for his sources. I am going to have a good hunt for information over the weekend; if nothing turns up, I think this is going to get speedied out of existence. Yunshui (talk) 14:17, 5 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Having spent a sizable chunk of the weekend in the city library and online, I 've been unable to find any evidence that "The African Coral Reef" is considered a discrete entity in the same way as, say, the Great Barrier Reef. Coral reef systems exist off the east coast of Africa, but the don't seem to be considered a single reef. As such, I propose a smerge to Coral reef - see the Talk:Coral reef#Merging The African Coral Reef. Yunshui (talk) 07:33, 8 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Since you expanded the article instead of merging it, I have removed the merge tag and renamed the article African coral reefs. There is no "African Coral Reef System". --Epipelagic (talk) 08:53, 13 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]