Taxacom: "Early Permian" angiosperms... real or not real taxa/names?

[Tony Rees]

Aha... Thanks very much, Evelyn for that useful background! In that case I
shall delete his names and the cited work in which they were published from
my data system... In fact they stay on the system as deprecated records
where persons with admin privileges will see them as deleted, with a note
explaining why, which will avoid them being accidentally created again as
duplicate entries.

A day or two spent and/or wasted, perhaps, in pursuit of this, however some
useful information has come to light along the way as well, so I do not
really mind!

With best regards - Tony

Tony Rees, New South Wales, Australia
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On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 at 16:12, Kustatscher Evelyn via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Sorry to have seen this mail only now but I was off on holidays.
>
> Apart from the general discussion I can cut the discussion on the paper
> pretty short: the "paper" that Michael Wachtler put on research gate and/or
> his private homepage are pdfs written, layout and created by him. The
> "journal" Dolomythos does formally not exist, it is just his creation, the
> ISSN number is fiction, never deposited in the main institutions as
> requested by the Italian lay. The pdfs he creates and put online exist in
> several versions (depending when you download it) not numbered as such
> where he changes continuously the names and some formally relevant
> information on localities, holotypes, way of writing of the names and thus
> are illegitimate considering the code. He prints later the pdfs also as
> "books" and sells them, remodifying again the "papers" and changing some
> scientifically and formally relevant parts as well. Thus, from a formal
> point of view these "papers" do not exist. We had an inquiry on that to the
> commission of the code.
>
> Moreover there have been several legal pursuits against this man since the
> material has been collected without the relevant permits, some of his
> "holotypes" are partly colored and redrawn specimens and/or even composed
> of originally different pieces of plant remains (you can see that when you
> see the originals). He was convicted by the Italian law due to several
> reasons (including illegal detention of material and manipulation of
> scientifically putatively important material). To close a very long story
> short. Everything that has the name of this man on and is pre-2010 and not
> published in generally well-established papers is a fraud and has not to be
> considered. Why pre-2010, because up to that year when the legal action
> started against him, he requested to be mentioned as co-author of the
> papers of material he had collected in order to give it into official
> deposits as requested by the Italian law and the Code.
>
> Last but not least: Michael Wachtler is a self-made collector,
> museum-"director", philosopher of life, author of books, films etc, if
> somebody wants so have a look at is homepage. He has no background studies
> (not that a degree is necessary to do good science but sometimes helpful).
> The paper ae not cited by anybody then himself since they do formally not
> exist according to the code and cannot even be cited.
>
> If anybody is in need of more information, he can contact me directly on
> my mail-address. I was, unfortunately, involved in all of this in the last
> 25 years and are the official representative paleontologist for the
> ministry and the SPI (Italian paleontological society) of the region of
> Italy.
>
> With kind regards,
> Evelyn Kustatscher
>