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I represent the Dunedin History Museum and the city historian. The reference link(s) to the first land grant and the incorporation of the city is from an old incorrect city of Dunedin page. The dates 1852 and 1925 are incorrect for the first land grant and the founding of the city.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.96.115.241 (talk • contribs) 15:10 4 August 2021 (UTC)

In fact that editor has repeatedly refused to advise me of what the problem is. I'm surprised to hear that editor is an experienced editor as I had not seen need to check. Right off attempting to inject FRINGE political bias and going on to repeatedly demand I debate positions I don't hold is strange for an experienced editor. I have said several times that we can remove and change any parts of my added text and asked how he wants to do that: He still refuses to reply instead insisting on these debates. Invasive Spices (talk) 31 January 2022 (UTC)

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Thanks for reading. Xeno (WMF) 02:23, 13 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

22:52, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

I am not sure why you keep posting or change Roy Donahue Peebles mother as white when she clearly is not. A picture of his mother is on his Instagram and census records have her listed as black/negro. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8806:4F0E:1500:8C08:B57:6260:40EA (talk) 00:21, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You need to cite a reliable source that states that his mother was black. - Donald Albury 00:25, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page watcher) Actually, the parents' races were just recently added to the article without a source. I have removed them as unsourced. Schazjmd (talk) 00:31, 27 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

First let me preface by saying my personal conspiracy theory: That user could totally be a bot.
That out of the way, the user Oldhedge, which you blocked for 31 hours, is back to doing the same things you blocked them for full force.

Additional details:

• Have you wondered where they get their poorly or fully unsourced content?

  Well they get it by Google translating Wikipedia articles from other languages, of course!

• Have you ever wondered where they get the weird source here and there that has nothing to do with the content they translated?

  Well so did I, and I have no idea because it's not the one from the page they translated, but this account has recently done the same thing (revert_1, revert_2, revert_3).

• Do I think they're the same person?

  Well I find the similar behaviour pretty suspicious, and in fact I thought it was a previous serial Google translator (this one), although more experienced people have told me that the behaviour does not quite match (link) and the completely unrelated reference thing is new these 2 accounts and both accounts sometimes change thigs just enough that it isn't the exact output of Google Translate.
  
  

Anyways, I don't plan on pursuing this any further (be at AIV or SPI), I just don't feel confident I really understand how to do it. But I hope my information (and my notice that they're still doing it) helps you in deciding what to do further.
I really hope they're not bots/semi-scripted, but I really have no idea how the reference mistakes could happen naturally... – 2804:F14:C060:8A01:CFC:6406:D953:B87F (talk) 09:58, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]