User talk:Wildlife of the World

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Could you pleasee stop swapping in thematically mismatched images? These are chosen with reference to the respective sections, it's not just a random elephant gallery or whatever. If the section talks about musth, then that's why there is an image depicting musth there. Plus, most of these articles have been curated by people for years, and the pictures chosen by consensus. If you want to change them up, I suggest discussing that on the talk page, or risk having your changes reverted (as has happened multiple times already). --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:01, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Elmidae, can someone stop this user known as Wildlife_of_the_World, he/she seems to be trolling the page or is making uneducated replacements for consensus images reflecting respective taxa. 100.12.240.232 (talk) 23:59, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Also please stop messing with existing image files, like at [1]. This is a descriptive page for one specific image, and you pasting additional images there is useless and disruptive. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:02, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

And don't swap out detailed distribution maps for inferior versions, as at Black rhinoceros. Please slow down! --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 07:12, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Can someone stop the user "Wildlife_of_the_World", he puts what is clearly an outdated distribution map and replaces the wonderful Ivindo bull L. cyclotis image with a equally wonderful, but inaccurate Lake Manyara L. africana image... Most annoying considering the country of Tanzania has 0 record of any forest elephants, and never has their distribution included eastern african savanna. They are endemic to Guineo-Congolian forests and mosaics, not Tanzania. The flapped ears when L. cyclotis has round ears, and the clearly mistitled image is incredibly annoying. 100.12.240.232 (talk) 23:57, 7 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

August 2022

Hello, I'm WikiHannibal. An edit that you recently made to White rhinoceros seemed to be a test and has been reverted. If you want to practice editing, please use your sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks! WikiHannibal (talk) 05:55, 8 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Blocked as a sockpuppet

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abusing multiple accounts as a sockpuppet of User:Jayden Scayles per the evidence presented at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Jayden Scayles. Note that multiple accounts are allowed, but not for illegitimate reasons, and any contributions made while evading blocks or bans may be reverted or deleted.

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