Mannlegur

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Fossil ranges ... without supporting evidence ... contradicting claims in the articles

Hi Mannlegur, there is a bit of an issue with the way you are modifying a large number of articles with uncited claims (we'd call those "new" claims in these articles), since at least in some cases the data you are adding to temporal ranges conflict with reliably-cited statements in those articles.

Wikipedia takes the sourcing of data extremely seriously. This is because claims must be Verifiable by other editors to ensure that what is said is correct, and correctly cited. By that token, "new" claims that do not have citations break Wikipedia's verifiability, and hence its trustworthiness to readers.

I do hope you can see that this matters - you are converting consistent, well-cited, but possibly slightly out-of-date articles not into good up-to-date articles, but into inconsistent and inadequately-cited articles. To put it another way, you are decreasing the quality of the articles you edit — in short, you are making them worse, making Wikipedia worse in fact.

So,

1) please stop doing this.

2) please go back to every article you have modified, check the data you have put in the temporal range is consistent with the text of that article, and check it is properly cited. If not, please revert your change, or cite the source that you must have used, in full, and (probably) remove the old source and update the text to be consistent.

3) in future, make sure you don't cause the same issue again.

Many thanks, Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:29, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Hello Chiswick Chap,

thanks for Your comment on my edits. In the future, after my editing, I will leave sources for the original on which I relied.

I have a question. Did I understand correctly what You meant in the article Spiralia?

I wish for your speedy reply.

Best regards,

Mannlegur Mannlegur (talk) 07:58, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Many thanks. At a quick inspection, at least you have cited a reliable source. I haven't tried to check the actual data against the source. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:07, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

Should I wait for Your verification or continue to leave sources? Mannlegur (talk) 08:11, 19 May 2024 (UTC)