Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-23.125.253.63-20140114060231/@comment-6383956-20140114192408

Yes, Paul, it was written in the article and it was written badly, hence the confusion. The article on stated that according to mythology, the kanima is a jaguar -- it never explained that Jackson was *not* a jaguar. Having an actual explanation, with the detailed information, would make it less confusing than this:

"Within South American shape-shifter lore, the Kanima is a werejaguar.

Physical Characteristics
The kanima is roughly the size of an average human male and covered in scales."

That would be confusing because that makes no sense. (And that, by the way, is exactly what the article said -- I went through the articles history.) Whereas, if you elaborated that according to South American lore, the Kanima usually manifests as a werejaguar but that Jackson manifested as a snake it would not be confusing. That legend may have been quickly dismissed but it is relevant to Teen Wolf, it was on the show after all.

If something on an article is causing lots of confusion, it likely just needs to be rewritten not necessarily deleted. Especially since now you're receiving complaints that the information is not there.

As for kanimas lacking in rich real world mythology -- maybe you're confusing real world mythology with a presence in pop culture? I spent two minutes on Google and learned that the kanima -- also known as the kanaima, runa-uturungu, uturunco, and yaguareté-abá (among other names) depending on the region of South America, is a name for werebeasts although most of South America usually believed they were able to become jaguars. Some tribes believed this was a shamanistic power, and some even believed all shamans had this ability. Other tribes believed only women could be kanimas and that their identity could be revealed by counting their nipples. In other legends, the kanima was an evil spirit that could possess someone, giving them the power to shapeshift. There are many stories of hunters wounding an animal only to find the same wound on someone from their village the next day and having to execute them, banish them, or flee from them.

In the beginning of the 20th century, belief in kanimas was so widespread in South America that people were actually killing children in order to "protect them from the curse". These days, the myths about the kanima much more closely resemble urban legends of anywhere else in the world -- kanimas lurk along highways to attack distressed motorists or are employed by the government as covert assassins.

Sources: Monstropedia, therianthropes.com,Native-Languages.org -- I'm pretty sure you could find even more if you decided to Google each other of the other names the kanima is known by.

So I guess my point in this whole thread is -- a Wiki should be a community so not everything rides on Paul and in the same token, Paul you probably shouldn't just summarily dismiss what users in your community are telling you because sometimes they might actually have some idea what they're talking about.