Talk:Wilkesia gymnoxiphium

source of misnomer "green sword"

The assertion that this species is "sometimes" called a green sword is from an early edit by an unsigned user at an IP that has been warned repeatedly for vandalism and blocked, after which he/she/it seems to have disappeared. While this assertion is not vandalism, assuming good faith, there is no evidence I can find for the assertion. It cannot really be disproved-- if no one else called it a green sword I guess the anon editor did, and lots of people refer to any pointed leaf as a sword, and most leaves tend to be green. It is an unfortunate source of confusion which has required an editor to write a clarification in the article and introduce a Cit Needed flag. In the interests of common sense, accuracy, and cleaning up this small but irritating mess, I seek consensus to delete the assertion and the resulting work-around language. Anyone?Alawa (talk) 18:30, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

Good catch; somehow I never noticed that. In my experience Wilkesia are never referred to as greenswords (the only common name is ʻiliau), so I just went ahead and deleted the sentence. It's one of my biggest peeves about WP that 99% of IP-user edits are vandalism, and about 80% of those that aren't are simply wrong. KarlM (talk) 04:01, 18 January 2010 (UTC)