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

[Tony Rees]

No problem, thank you very much for alerting us to the situation in this
case.

Best wishes - Tony

On Tue, 7 Jun 2022, 7:19 pm Kustatscher Evelyn, <
Evelyn.Kustatscher at naturmuseum.it> wrote:

> Hi Tony,
>
> I’m terribly sorry for this, but I was not able to check the mails
> earlier. And as said, not use his “papers” at all.
>
> Evelyn
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> *Von:* Tony Rees <tonyrees49 at gmail.com>
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 7. Juni 2022 09:01
> *An:* Kustatscher Evelyn <Evelyn.Kustatscher at naturmuseum.it>
> *Cc:* John Grehan <calabar.john at gmail.com>; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
> *Betreff:* Re: Taxacom: "Early Permian" angiosperms... real or not real
> taxa/names?
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> 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.
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> 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!
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>
> 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:
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> 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
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