User:WildScience1976/sandbox

This Wikipedia article had numerous flags on it for uncited, unverifiable content, requesting that changes be made. So having a copy of previous versions of this article, along with all the original citations, I went in and fixed it. However, it appears my work was undone the next day by one editor, who appears to want very much to elevate the role of filmmakers Michael Parfit and Suzanne Chisholm, both as subjects of this article and even as cited sources. This is against Wikipedia rules.

I have made extensive edits on this piece, largely because it appears to read like a promotional piece for the filmmakers of "The Whale." The previous version included numerous citations to "chisholm," even on matters of scientific record like orca ID and other facts. The previous edits pulled entire, extremely critical timeline content that I re-inserted into the piece, ALL CITED, that are absolutely essential to the Luna story. If the content I have included is not properly cited, then it should be removed. If it is cited, it cannot be.

The Luna story is very familiar to orca followers like us in Seattle. A copious media record exists of the saga. There is no need to rely repeatedly on one source, Parfit and Chisholm, to tell this story. The previous editor also seems to be inclined to extract many references to Orca Conservancy and Michael Harris, who was once one of the subjects of Parfit and Chisholm for their Smithsonian piece but later appeared frequently in local media as highly critical of the filmmakers' actions in Nootka Sound. Again, the media record, preserved by groups like Orca Conservancy and others, tell a very clear story about what happened with Luna the orca whale and I have relied entirely on that objective record in my contributions here.