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Plagiarism?

The passage below may have been copied from a non-free source. Note in particular the bolded sentence, which refers to an upcoming section. There is no such section in this article.

"According to Christel Kasselman,^[1] in previous aquarium literature the assertion, which is wrong in this form, has been disseminated, stating that all cultivated Aponogeton species are subjected to a periodical drying out of waterways in their natural habitats. It is subsequently being suggested that at the onset of the resting period — indicated by the plant through ending leaf production — the tuber should be removed from the aquarium and be stored in a cool and more or less moist state for several months. According to Kasselmann's experience, obtained at numerous locations, these assertions and conclusions will often lead to maintenance not appropriate to biotope conditions, with the result that plants eventually die off. These erroneous ideas, widespread among the aquarium community, can quite possibly be traced back to the first mass import of A. crispus in the early 1950s, since the above assertions do in fact mostly apply to this species. They were erroneously applied to other species imported later. In order to achieve maintenance in accordance with biotope-specific requirements, the ecological conditions in which Aponogeton species prosper have to be viewed in a more differentiating manner than has previously been the case. Therefore, a description of specific features of different types of waters accommodating Aponogeton varieties is provided at this point. In the sections on the individual species. the known ecological conditions are listed, enabling the reader a classification into different categories. Data on cultivation will help to contribute to a successful, species-specific maintenance. It should be noted, though, that because of a lack of ecological data it is difficult to classify some species into the system.

"Basically one can distinguish between four different categories of types of waters accom¬modating Aponogeton species. It has to be noted that some species can be found in more than one type of waterway."

Note the hyphenation of "accom¬modating", indicative of a scan, machine translation or passage through some text-handling software. It appears that this passage came into the article as a result of a merger between Aponogeton/old and Aponogetonaceae (Aponogeton being the only genus in the family) on 20 May, 2012. ~~I will try to find out when and by whom the passage was added to the no longer extant article Aponogetonaceae.~~ I have found the Talk page of the old version of this article, which was merged into Aponogetonaceae in 2012, which was then moved to this article in 2013. The user who added the material added it to Talk:Aponogeton/old; it somehow went into the article. That user's one-day history shows just a few edits, many of which look to me like plagiarism.

The best thing for this article is to re-write the section. It would be nice if the original source could be located so that in-line citations may be used to support the statements made in the section. Thanks,--Quisqualis (talk) 21:19, 1 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Kasselmann, Aquarium Plants 2003, s.v. "The Aponogeton genus"

[1] Kasselmann, Aquarium Plants 2003, s.v. "The Aponogeton genus"

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