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

Tue Jun 7 05:37:52 CDT 2022

If an ISSN is fictional, then a publication is not effective.
See ICNafp, Art. 29 Note 2.

However, this particular publication has an ISBN not an ISSN.
Worldcat accepts this ISBN 978-88-944100-4-4 and feels this
is a print book. If that is indeed the case, effective publication
has taken place.

Paul

On 07-Jun-22 11:22, Tony Rees via Taxacom wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> *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?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
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