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You list Tina as Bertha, the Nugget elephant's baby. She was not, they were not related and Tina was purchased to keep Bertha company. Bertha was a very old lady when Tina came on the scene. Nor was Berth ever bred. Please correct your mistake. I am a native Nevadan from Sparks/Reno and a family friend of the Ascuaga's. Other people are taking what you wrote as a fact and posting false info on other websites!!! Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:304:B000:1EB9:ECCD:1633:2ECC:6690 (talk) 05:33, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Done, but next time please just fix it yourself, or post to the article's talk page. This is not the place to request edits to articles. Meters (talk) 05:45, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

Noting that the existing sources in the article confirm that the were not related. I also added mention of a third elephant that was mentioned in the same references. Meters (talk) 05:47, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

How to best fix a circular Wikipedia error

I found an error on an article. I noted it on the talk page with references to show that it is an error. But, there was a reference to support the error. I found the author of the article. He lives in the same city as I do. So, I could ask him in person where he got the information. He said he got it from Wikipedia. So, this is a case where Wikiepdia had a mistake, a newspaper used that and reported the mistake as fact, then Wikipedia used the newspaper article to validate the mistake in Wikipedia. So, how can this be easily corrected? There is no way that the newspaper is going to retract an article written years ago. Nobody will take my word for it. They won't even take the original new article's word for it that he is who he says he is. This is a case where the circlular nature of the problem is nearly impossible to break. Is there a method for fixing this problem or does it require countless hours of research to prove that the "fact" from Wikipedia is nonsense? 97.82.165.112 (talk) 13:54, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

See Citogenesis and Wikipedia:List of citogenesis incidents for more on that topic. To discuss solutions, you're better off at Wikipedia:Teahouse than here. --Wrongfilter (talk) 14:36, 14 December 2021 (UTC)