Talk:Machilus

Uncited additions by IP account of blocked user

I have removed text added by the IP address 83.42.105.207, as the text is poorly-worded and totally uncited. This IP address is an account of User:Curritocurrito, who was blocked indefinitely for being a sockpuppet. The text added by this user always bears the same characteristics, these being:

• 1) Poor quality English that often makes little or even no sense.
• 2) Lack or absence of citations.
• 3) An obsession with adding the same material to various articles that are deemed by the user to possess at least some link to laurel forest habitats.
• 4) Copyright violations.

Because of all the above issues, I consider that the best course is to totally remove the user's additions, because even if one does spend a lot of time laboriously assessing, correcting and referencing the added material, the user then just re-adds the poor material. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 22:54, 14 October 2012 (UTC)

I agree, you have made an excellent summary of the situation with the person who adds this material. It includes such flagrant errors that it is misinformation (a major disperser of the fruit is chipmunks, but chipmunks don't occur on the same continent (that was added to many pages); Myrtaceae is part of Lauraceae and sclerophyll forests are cloud forests (or some such statements that are hard to decipher, again on many pages), ...). Misinformation is the antithesis of what we want in an encyclopedia; I feel strongly that bad educational material is worse than none, that good educational material is sorely needed on a host of topics, and this person's activities consequently make me very angry. By the way, I'm convinced that the same person is behind a host of anonymous IP addresses (jumping from one to another without backtracking, probably a deliberate strategy to make things difficult for us), and also at least the following signons:

• Sonia_Murillo_Perales
• Paco_Jones_Losmíos
• Héroes_del_Pimiento

Similar activity occurs in the Spanish wikipedia, with at least two more signons:

• CurritoToto
• PapaNicolau

Sminthopsis84 (talk) 17:35, 15 October 2012 (UTC)