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Did you know... that Utter served as a Stockholm police horse for more than 23 years, participating in 515 changings of the
Royal Guards?
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Overall: My first one in a while. Looks good as far as I can tell, though I can't access most of the cited newspaper articles to fully confirm (looks like they exist but are in print/paywalled). I just published an edit to the article for some light clean-up but it shouldn't affect this nomination.
AdoTang (
talk) 03:00, 17 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Gender guideline?
Is there some Wikipedia guideline for when to refer to horses as he/she, rather than it? The latter seems more natural to me, unless I'm personally close to the individual animal in some way. If this has been discussed and settled then I'll defer to that.
Renerpho (
talk) 03:27, 18 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Not that I can find. All the sources use 'he' for the horse, but they are Swedish. Featured Articles like
Secretariat and
Easy Jet also use gendered pronouns for their subjects at least.
AlexandraAVX (
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A fact from Utter (horse) appeared on Wikipedia's
Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 June 2024 (
check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that Utter served as a Stockholm police horse for more than 23 years, participating in 515 changings of the
Royal Guards?
The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as
this nomination's talk page,
the article's talk page or
Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
Overall: My first one in a while. Looks good as far as I can tell, though I can't access most of the cited newspaper articles to fully confirm (looks like they exist but are in print/paywalled). I just published an edit to the article for some light clean-up but it shouldn't affect this nomination.
AdoTang (
talk) 03:00, 17 May 2024 (UTC)reply
Gender guideline?
Is there some Wikipedia guideline for when to refer to horses as he/she, rather than it? The latter seems more natural to me, unless I'm personally close to the individual animal in some way. If this has been discussed and settled then I'll defer to that.
Renerpho (
talk) 03:27, 18 June 2024 (UTC)reply
Not that I can find. All the sources use 'he' for the horse, but they are Swedish. Featured Articles like
Secretariat and
Easy Jet also use gendered pronouns for their subjects at least.
AlexandraAVX (
talk) 07:17, 18 June 2024 (UTC)reply