Talk:Tetrapodophis

Fossil controversy
Recently, there is the news that Tetrapodophis fossils were donated to a museum in Brazil. I remembered that Tetrapodophis was in trouble over allegations that its fossils were illegally exported from Brazil. I was sure that this page also had written about controversy of fossil, so I tried to add that information to the article. But what I noticed is that section is completely removed from the page. After seeing page history, I noticed that whole section is removed in this revision, claiming "false accusations which are unrelated to the science". The user who did that edit, User:Pterogirl (contributions), seems to be account of Megan Jacobs, who worked on press-art of Leptostomia, which is described by David M. Martill and Nicholas R. Longrich, who are describer of Tetrapodophis. So I guess she probably deleted this content to defend her suspicions about their study. However, this issue has been extensively discussed in 2021 paper discussed about Tetrapodophis affinity. Should content related to controversy be retained on this page? P.S. User:Yewtharaptor readded about this content. Ta-tea-two-te-to (talk) 13:30, 8 May 2024 (UTC)


 * The removal was clearly inappropriate. The controversy was the subject of newspaper coverage and therefore is due for inclusion. Pterogirl/Jacobs (see the Commons image ) has a blatant WP:Conflict of Interest as a PhD student at Portsmouth were Martill is employed, and they shouldn't make any edits related to Dave Martill. Full dlsclosure: I was the one who originally added much of the controversy stuff to the article, and I met Martill at the University of Portsmouth once around a decade ago. I have no ill will towards anyone involved in this issue. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:58, 8 May 2024 (UTC)