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Hello, with a friend from fr:projet:monde équestre we have improved the article about the Fjord horse. It will be soon proposed as quality article. There's a lot of sources in english if you want to translate -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 15:19, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I've been creating articles about extinct horses over the years, but we are still very far to go before we get anywhere near complete. I think there should be an article for every extinct genus, at least. I was going to create an article about the "Western horse", Equus occidentalis, but I noticed it is sometimes written as Equus "occidentalis". I have not been able to find any explanation for this, is it considered invalid by someone? FunkMonk ( talk) 17:53, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi all, we are having another round of discussion about replacing the lead image of Horses in warfare. This time, it's a friendly ,good faith discussion with some really good ideas being generated. I'm inviting all people who watchlist this page to "trot" over there and comment. This has been a contentious, edit-war worthy issue in the past, but this time, we at least all agree on the basics -- that the image has to look good at thumbnail or 180-200px size in the lead, so no huge battle scenes, please! I'm kind of pushing to get a decision done, but don't want to do so without real strong consensus, so am inviting all who have cared in the past - and contributed constructively - to weigh in. Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 20:29, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
All may want to search the word "Horse" on this page of the most-viewed articles on all of wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:West.andrew.g/Popular_pages Horse is on the list, and not surprisingly, Horsemeat, but, interestingly, this week, so is Tennessee Walking Horse. May be a place where we look at focus for article improvement, not just the longer-term stats within WPEQ tagged articles. (Is there some reason why the TWH is in the news lately??) Just FYI and food for thought. Montanabw (talk) 17:04, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello, today, on the fr:Wikipédia, we have on the main page an article about neighing. I think it's a good idea to translate but for me, fr to english is a bit difficult ;) And... you have a distinctive terminology, we don't have. Don't know if I can create with to neigh, neighing or another name ! -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 10:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
There was a suggestion in Feb 2012 to merge burro and jenny_(donkey) with donkey - are there experts on the subject who can weigh in? Are all the same genus/species and if so is this the correct criterion for making this decision? Sara FB ( talk) 23:23, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
I've done up some equine-themed wikilove prizes here: User:Montanabw/Pony prize. Would anyone object if I put them up on the project page as a prize that any WPEQ member could award? Montanabw (talk) 23:15, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
I have a bunch of American gaited breeds performing gaits I don't recognise (with the expection of the Saddlebred rack, if and when it resembles the Icelandic tölt) -- I'll have a gallery in my subpage transcluded here so please pop by at User:Pitke/Gaits to help identify stuff.
Also, if anyone can give me a foolproof, failsafe, way of differentiating between pics of fine and pleasure driving, that'd be great.
Below is what we have this far. I'll be updating it.
-- Pitke ( talk) 12:05, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello all ! After the Cadre Noir project with Wikimedia France last year (see the photos in the article Cadre Noir), there's for this year the same project in... Switzerland, the 30 may 2013 (afternoon). We will work on the Freiberger breed (fr article is very good now), the Haras federal of Avenches (article exist in fr and deutsch, not in english : fr:Haras national (Suisse)) and the Swiss Warmblood. The swiss wikipedians speak deutsch and french so all these articles in french will probably be translated in deutsch the same day. If there's some en wikipedians motivated to translate all these articles in english, it promises to be an exciting experience - I think we will have a chatroom (or for me, Skype) dedicated for this day. If you are interested fo the chatroom, don't forget the large time difference between Switzerland and the United States ;) -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 23:46, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
I will create an article for the (now) international equestrian journal ichevalsavoir.com (with free licence) and for fr:wikinews. Probably the swiss stud will gave us an access for many scientifics documents and it's better if english-native-speaker work with it! -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 13:29, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Greetings. Would anyone like to expand Chrystine Tauber's page? She serves as USEF's new president until 2017. Zigzig20s ( talk) 21:36, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Someone want to start equestrian tourism? Seems we have no article, and that's an omission. We do have trail riding, mounted orienteering, pleasure riding and Trec, seems an obvious need here. Montanabw (talk) 20:56, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
File:JMKTaxiCarriage1.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 06:15, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Greetings from Project Horse Racing. I wonder if any of you can help me with this. Is there a special name for a bridle without a noseband like the one being worn here [2]. Would there be a particular reason for using this type of bridle? Tigerboy1966 19:36, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, new files in the Commons:Category:Equestrian sports (and sub categories) you can find at Commons:User:Nordlicht8/Equestriansports. Maybe it is useful for your work. -- Nordlicht8 ( talk) 18:25, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
File:EmpireCityCasinoRacetrack1899.JPG has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 07:31, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
This ITN nomination might be of interest to folk here, as it's the genome sequence of a horse and pushes back the theoretical divergence of the horse 2million years accordng to the nature article. EdwardLane ( talk) 08:30, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
A few of the war horses so notable as to receive the highest award for such animals, the Dickin Medal, still do not have articles. I hope by posting this here, one or more members of WikiProject Equine might be encouraged to help see to it that each horse given this highest honor gets an article of its own. You might want to begin your research at the article Dickin Medal, where there are a few references if you would like to follow up. Chrisrus ( talk) 03:22, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Ok, we've got stubs made for the following war horses, all of which contain no more information as yet than the fact that they were awarded a Dickin Medal:
What is the template that will say each article is under the purview of this project? We need to start the talk page for each with the correct Wikiproject template. Chrisrus ( talk) 14:09, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm not being critical of them being stubs. I also hope someone at WPEQ is interested AND has time, which is the bigger proglem; at the moment, I have other fish to fry (so to speak) but it IS an interesting topic! (Dana: This of interest to you??) Montanabw (talk) 17:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
If we fill out the annotated list on the bottom of the article Dickin Medal, that would be good and quite like what you describe above.
Please allow me to try to convince you that there is nothing wrong with short articles. An article should be only as long as it should be and no longer. If that means it is short, I see that as success. There are many good short articles. Here's one example: Paddy (pigeon).
Also, if each of these horses has a similar story, that doesn't mean that they all have the same story that should or could be merged easily moved into one story or that a place could or should be easily found to present all three of them as one story.
I will try to fill out one of these new stubs to demonstrate how they might become good. If you still want to have all three deleted after that, ok, but we would have to start a deletion request now that someone has already created all three. Chrisrus ( talk) 20:59, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I've improved french article about the Dartmoor ponies, but it need photos of ponies rides - there's juste wild ponies. And I don't find on FlickR. Perhaps some of you have ? -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 12:59, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
Could anyone help please with a query that I posted on the Miscellaneous Refdesk: WP:RD/M#Shabraque_image? I seem to have stumped the resident polymaths! Alansplodge ( talk) 15:30, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
{{
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Jet Deck. Please feel free to add it to other articles using this infobox. For full DMY/ MDY dates, you can use {{
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Please see
Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities#Sanitation for horse drawn vehicles in modern times (version of
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There seems to be inconsistency in how equid subgenera are handled. On one hand we have Asinus, which covers the taxa therein. On the other hand we have Hippotigris, which somewhat confusingly redirects to zebra, which appears to be an unnatural grouping. Personally, I'd prefer that a Hippotigris article was created. Also, an Amerhippus article could be nice. Perhaps even Equus (subgenus) could be better off with an article. FunkMonk ( talk) 11:39, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
This discussion] raised for me a question of whether we should create something like Glossary of slang with equestrian roots. Could be fun. Or maybe I'm nuts and it would be a "drahmahzfest." Thoughts all? Montanabw (talk) 22:46, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello all. In this time of holidays, here are some news about our work on the fr-wiki :
Soon : Dartmoor pony, Pintabian, Winged horse (in french fr:cheval ailé is different from Pegasus but in english Winged horse redirect to Pegasus), fr:Cheval d'Erlenbach (Swiss ancient breed, no article in en:wiki) and Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse, translated to improve my english level (article reviewed in english by Dana Boomer it seems) Now we have a team work for Hanoverian horse (somebody can say me how many hannoverian horses there's in the United States ?) -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 13:16, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
The usage of Rousillon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Rousillon (horse) -- 70.24.244.158 ( talk) 04:47, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
The guy who is obsessed about stallions and castration is back. ( /info/en/?search=Talk:Stallion#Hopefully_moving_on_-_to_a_more_objective_and_correct_.28true.29_article...) WPEQ members may wish to watchlist stallion. Montanabw (talk) 06:04, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Re Dales Pony. The Dales pony society has asked me to contact you regarding editing in particular the image used to represent the Dales. I have plenty of images that can used on free license that are a much better example of the breed than the currently used one but am unsure how to go about editing/asking for its change. I've ended up here where it says to ask questions so I am. I hope I've done this right, Many thanks Anna Pennell Dales Pony Society Annapennell ( talk) 06:58, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Thankyou! I will attempt to work through that at some point this weekend Annapennell ( talk) 11:56, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Just to add I've managed to upload two images so far to the commons category for the Dales Pony and that seems to have worked ok! How would I now go about asking for the reference image of a Dales Pony to change to either of those images (preferably the mare and foal as she is our current breed champion so a good representative of a Dales Pony). Many thanks Annapennell ( talk) 12:10, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Pitke had a good project that got dropped a few years back, IMHO, the template is worth salvaging and completing to add to the equine coat color articles. Thoughts, all? Montanabw (talk) 03:09, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Template:Infobox horse coat has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. eh bien mon prince ( talk) 12:08, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Horse infobox discussion. Pinging WPEQ members who work on horse "biographies": /info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Horse_racing#Do_we_have_a_problem.3F Montanabw (talk) 02:40, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Here: /info/en/?search=Talk:Thrush_(horse)#Requested_move Montanabw (talk) 18:55, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
The usage of Mustang ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see Talk:Mustang horse -- 65.94.78.70 ( talk) 09:12, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
For the MOST PERFECT userbox EVER! Montanabw (talk) 23:00, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
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Oh ye who are more knowledgeable im such matters, pray peek hence and share the WPEQ wisdom forth. Bazinga. -- Pitke ( talk) 04:57, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Need help figuring out what is going on with the Spanish Government's Stud farm program. See Talk:Yeguada Militar de Jerez de la Frontera where I posted a longish piece on the need to accurately update the article. Montanabw (talk) 04:30, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Friendly discussion on reorganizing the horse breeding categories here if anyone wants to comment: Category talk:Horse breeding and studs Montanabw (talk) 23:33, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
The post times are as follows: Saturdays at 7:00 pm; Sundays at 6:00 pm; and featured Wednesday in the meet at 6:30.
I figured that "post time" is the scheduled beginning of the racing event (i.e. when the loudspeakers say WELCOME TO THE GENERAL VALLEY DOWNS and soon after that they bring out horses for heat 1. Now. Featured? Meet? -- Pitke ( talk) 17:31, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
It exists. No further comment: Wikipedia:WikiProject My Little Pony. Montanabw (talk) 06:14, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Attempted deletion at /info/en/?search=Romulus_(donkey) . FYI
Someone can extract all the horse engravings from this document ? http://books.google.fr/books?id=Y0BOAAAAYAAJ&dq=Old%20English%20Black%20horse&hl=fr&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q=Old%20English%20Black%20horse&f=false It would take me hours and hours while a designer can do it in minutes -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 11:59, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Discussion consolidated here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Agriculture#Breed_navboxes, concerning edits made by this user on Feb 12 and some on Feb 11. Montanabw (talk) 20:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
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For those interested, Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mucho Macho Man/archive1. I co-nominated the FAC adding @ Tigerboy1966: and @ Froggerlaura:, who also worked on this article. At least one reviewer with a general knowledge of horses would be welcome as a reviewer! Montanabw (talk) 19:50, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
I just removed Gem Twist and Sapphire (horse) from ‹The template Cat is being considered for merging.› Category:Cloned horses, but now I'm second guessing myself. Is a cloned animal an animal created via cloning or an animal which has been cloned (i.e., served as the model for a clone)? These horses fell under the latter criterion, unlike the remaining members of that category. But if it's intended to have both types, go ahead and revert me. -- BDD ( talk) 21:32, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I've created, in french, an article about geriatric horses and their management. It is primarily for education, many people here in France adopting older horses to prevent their slaughter but do not know at all take care... and it does not exist (to my knowledge) a french book to explain. So I used many sources of American Universities (translation is a little difficult for me) in order to source this article. here it is : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieillesse_du_cheval. The title is a bit tricky to translate, perhaps simply something like "old horse" ? It can be a very useful item for anyone seeking information specifically to manage a horse more than twenty years, instead of having to search through items such as "horse feed", "shoeing", "worming", etc. -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 16:48, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Have a number of good photos, will take some time to upload, as I am traveling at the moment. But stay tuned! Montanabw (talk) 08:57, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hello again, before the next world equestrian games in Normandy we have done a big teamwork for article about horse riding in France. I think that in these times of football such article is therapeutic ;) By the way, we improved Palomino and The Black Stallion. And I've started an article on the subject that I studied at the university, the horse in Brittany, with a lot of mythology. Happy reading (with a good translator) If you're in the area for the World Equestrian Games 2014, I'm next. -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 00:08, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
=> The loss of a horse is a tragedy for a family of farmers, and before the arrival of veterinary medicine, there are few ways to protect themselves. This is why the Britons appeal to many saints : Eloi (against the maladies), Gildas (fertility), Hervé, Nicodemus, Herbot, Cornely and Vincent; when the pardons aux chevaux (pardon of horses). Brittany Solomon (857-874) is considered a patron saint of horsemen status it has certainly achieved through its military role in the cavalry of Brittany117. These pardons mingle sacred traditions and profanes108. Pilgrims have little distance they travel and the animal to bless. Competition even between pardons. It is a festival dedicated to horses, it is forbidden to do work that day. It brings the whole village and has an important function identitaire. Its roots are very old, swimming horses as a rite of fertility are attested in multiple regions of the world, including celtics countries. Most pardons horses are organized on June 24 or July, day of the relics of St. Eloi or the feast of Saint John. They correspond to important moments of celtic121 calendar. On this occasion, the horses are well fed and "toilettés".
Anatole Le Braz testify that we had to do three laps of the horse sanctuary, before forcing them to bow to the image of saint123. The owner of the animal makes an offering: silver, horseshoe or more frequently handle horsehair. At Gourin, it gives the tail of his horse124. After the service, the priest blesses the animal and sometimes offer a piece of blessed bread124. A procession starts at the statue of the saint, or the portant125. Water is everywhere in the rite itself, it may be watering ears, genitals, buttocks or the hooves in a fountain to invoke healing, protection or the birth of a colt126. Swimming or jumping a river correspond to a fertility rite, sometimes accompanied by projections on place121. Races and cavalcades may accompany, as well as the lighting of a bonfire127. These races are an opportunity for young people to compete and to win in the village reputation122: it is not uncommon for them to conclude on meetings then mariages128. On the sidelines of forgiveness, the discussion focuses on the merits of each horse. Young children can learn to riding for the first fois129.
This rite is so popular that Quistinic, attendance of forgiveness in July requires the construction of a new fountain in the nineteenth century88. Forgiveness horses been a progressive folklore. In the 1950s, he began to take the form of a spectacle for tourists. In the 1960s and 1970s, tractors and other machines replace horses125. In Saint-Eloy, forgiveness of Ascension Day always attracts faithful from throughout France. It is the same in St. Péver, where since 1888, horses bathe in a pool88. Solomon Britain still has its own forgiveness Chapel Plouyé117. Many chapels votive owners horses124. -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 00:16, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Issue at ANI that may be of interest to project members: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Undiscussed_page_moves_by_SMcCandlish. Montanabw (talk) 18:33, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Can anyone shed any light as to what's going on here? Two of the horses in this field have cotton hoods completely blocking their eyes and ears. They're not the protective type used in racing with the mesh holes over the eyes and ears, they're clearly sensory deprivation hoods, and they're carefully tailored around the ears so someone has obviously gone to some effort and not just slipped a couple of pillowcases over their heads. None of the other horses in the field have them, so this is presumably not the isolation field for horses with some kind of eye disease; it's England with a typically grey English sky so it's highly unlikely to be any kind of sun protection; it's adjacent to a fairly heavily used public footpath and within earshot of a busy rail line so presumably not a place to keep especially skittish or vicious horses who need the Abu Ghraib treatment to stop them biting the other horses. Neither of the horses seem remotely concerned by the hoods, and nor do any of their unhooded horsey friends in the same pasture.
If anyone knows what's actually being illustrated here, do feel free either to change the title to something more explanatory. – iridescent 10:51, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
The masks are for fly and gnat eye and ear protection, they are like looking threw a window screen at your house windows. I have a horse that last year when I purchased him had flystrike which means that flies had laid eggs in his eyes and the larva were crawling/living inside his nasal cavities causing him so much pain he had rubbed the skin off of his face. The horses can see threw the masks although I take mine off at night when they sleep in the pasture for an added measure of safety, imagine wearing sunglasses at night. The masks do provide sun protection like sunglasses which is important for horses with light colored eyes. The masks may help provide some degree of cancer protection. Please let me know if I did this right,I am 50 and not a tech person here trying to learn I want to update the Belgian draft page and setup one for the American Brabants SueJorgensen ( talk) 16:59, 16 June 2014 (UTC)susanjorgensen
Wikipedia talk:Article titles#Toward a standard for disambiguating titles of articles on domestic animal breeds may be of interest to editors here. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼ 23:16, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
Another RM discussion at Talk:Mustang_horse. Montanabw (talk) 21:20, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Draft:James Owen Lowe is a very short stub, but given the cited sources, is this horse trainer and judge possibly notable? Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 09:25, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello ! A small news from brittany : since yesterday, the first horse from a french breed (a breton horse) has been tested (by an american laboratory) heterozygotous for the SW-1 gene. So, it's the first french horse breed that officially carry a splashed white gene. It happens that I know the person who made this discovery and that could get some great photos of the mare tested and her son.
Note : Splashed White = Balzan in french, but we use the italian word "balzano" (yes, we're complicated people !) Enjoy ! -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 16:12, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I have created a page about Lurline Matson Roth. According to the source I used, she competed in horse shows nationally in the US. I was wondering if any of you would be able to find out more about this--perhaps from back issues of The Chronicle of the Horse, or specific books--and expand that paragraph...She also owned Why Worry Farm in Woodside, California, and as a horsebreeding farm, I am not sure if it would be notable enough to have its own page--perhaps so, if the name of the farm was used in competitions. Two of her horses, Chief of Longview (apparently born at Longview Farm) and Sweetheart on Parade, apparently won national championships, but again, I am not sure where to find sufficient info about them to create their pages, or if they would be sufficiently notable for a page...I would guess they are if they won competitons, but...it would be great to hear what some of you think, and feel free to start those pages if you can. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 13:39, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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There is a question at the "Miscellaneous" desk that might benefit from your help: "Driving a team of horses". Thank you in advance! --- Sluzzelin talk 23:00, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
I was at Verona on Sunday, and took a few photos. I've made a gallery here in case anyone is interested. The quality is very disappointing (it was a borrowed camera), but there are some unusual breeds, including a couple that are very new and one that is extinct. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 03:35, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I wonder if some of you would help me expand this page I've created, especially by adding information about the quarter horses bred there. Some of the inline references I added may be useful for this. That could either be inserted in the 'history' section, or in a separate section about horses... It is a lot of work and I won't have time for this until quite some time (it already took me longer than expected to create this page about the ranch, but glad I did it). Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 05:14, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Could someone please add more referenced info about Irwin Molasky's horses? For example, he owned Kona Gold. I am not sure if his horses are still competing. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 12:18, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Heads up that the Friesians-are-perfect editors appear to be poking around the Friesian horse article again. Anyone at WPEQ may also want to watchlist the article because I just inserted a (thoroughly sourced) genetic disorders paragraph which is sure to send people through the roof, seeing as how they don't even want to admit they have chestnut color in the breed. Montanabw (talk) 00:55, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Yesterday, a french TV show spoken about Wikipedia (50' and after) and took this page fr:Fraude à la viande de cheval de 2013 as an example of paid POV pushing, because in France this scandal is known as "Affaire Findus", but all references to Findus have been suppressed by an e-reputation agency. It's a really big problem and your english version 2013 meat adulteration scandal is, I think, affected too. -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 17:09, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Could a native speaker please look at Nordlandshest/Lyngshest? It's been long since I used equestrian English (and it was late and I'm semi brain dead thanks to new puppy)... -- Pitke ( talk) 13:12, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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There's this IP user who has, apparently in pure good faith, gone and added unrelated racing images on race track articles. Unfortunately I'm pulling a total blank on what to say to this user, other than "lurk moar", so please, can someone with even an ounce of patience and decorum go to User talk:64.134.146.127 and leave a message welcoming them to contribute but remind them that unrelated illustrations aren't really needed, and, well, whatever the heck to say about this choice... -- Pitke ( talk) 13:15, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, american and english (and other strange-languages-countries) friends ! I've worked on the fr:rollkur article - with a lot of scientific sources, and a lot of horrible words who give headaches in it :) I have a question... is this :
rollkur ? IMHA reins (in french we say "renes" are strained to force the horse in rollkur position. But I'm not sure.
Thanks. -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 20:28, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Ok ! Thank you. I've created a french article about "hypertype" but there's no equivalent about "exaggeration" ?-- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 18:51, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I have just left a comment on the "talk" section of the Dales Pony page /info/en/?search=Dales_pony with regards to the image used. I've been asked by the Dales Pony Society to see if we can get the image changed as it is felt by breed experts to be a poor representation of the Dales Pony. I have uploaded a much better one to the commons from the society which we feel would represent the breed in a much more realistic manner. Would someone be able to take a look at it and advise if it could be changed or how we would go about doing it? Incidentally in the new RBST Watchlist issued last week the Dales Pony has now been re-catagorised back to Class 1 Critical with under 300 breeding females. https://www.rbst.org.uk/watchlist-2015 I can try to edit that in myself but I'm just working my way around the page so if someone else wishes too update the information we would be most grateful. ( Annapennell ( talk) 16:13, 26 January 2015 (UTC))
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Hello, with a friend from fr:projet:monde équestre we have improved the article about the Fjord horse. It will be soon proposed as quality article. There's a lot of sources in english if you want to translate -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 15:19, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
I've been creating articles about extinct horses over the years, but we are still very far to go before we get anywhere near complete. I think there should be an article for every extinct genus, at least. I was going to create an article about the "Western horse", Equus occidentalis, but I noticed it is sometimes written as Equus "occidentalis". I have not been able to find any explanation for this, is it considered invalid by someone? FunkMonk ( talk) 17:53, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
Hi all, we are having another round of discussion about replacing the lead image of Horses in warfare. This time, it's a friendly ,good faith discussion with some really good ideas being generated. I'm inviting all people who watchlist this page to "trot" over there and comment. This has been a contentious, edit-war worthy issue in the past, but this time, we at least all agree on the basics -- that the image has to look good at thumbnail or 180-200px size in the lead, so no huge battle scenes, please! I'm kind of pushing to get a decision done, but don't want to do so without real strong consensus, so am inviting all who have cared in the past - and contributed constructively - to weigh in. Thanks! Montanabw (talk) 20:29, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
All may want to search the word "Horse" on this page of the most-viewed articles on all of wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:West.andrew.g/Popular_pages Horse is on the list, and not surprisingly, Horsemeat, but, interestingly, this week, so is Tennessee Walking Horse. May be a place where we look at focus for article improvement, not just the longer-term stats within WPEQ tagged articles. (Is there some reason why the TWH is in the news lately??) Just FYI and food for thought. Montanabw (talk) 17:04, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
Hello, today, on the fr:Wikipédia, we have on the main page an article about neighing. I think it's a good idea to translate but for me, fr to english is a bit difficult ;) And... you have a distinctive terminology, we don't have. Don't know if I can create with to neigh, neighing or another name ! -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 10:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
There was a suggestion in Feb 2012 to merge burro and jenny_(donkey) with donkey - are there experts on the subject who can weigh in? Are all the same genus/species and if so is this the correct criterion for making this decision? Sara FB ( talk) 23:23, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
I've done up some equine-themed wikilove prizes here: User:Montanabw/Pony prize. Would anyone object if I put them up on the project page as a prize that any WPEQ member could award? Montanabw (talk) 23:15, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
I have a bunch of American gaited breeds performing gaits I don't recognise (with the expection of the Saddlebred rack, if and when it resembles the Icelandic tölt) -- I'll have a gallery in my subpage transcluded here so please pop by at User:Pitke/Gaits to help identify stuff.
Also, if anyone can give me a foolproof, failsafe, way of differentiating between pics of fine and pleasure driving, that'd be great.
Below is what we have this far. I'll be updating it.
-- Pitke ( talk) 12:05, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
Hello all ! After the Cadre Noir project with Wikimedia France last year (see the photos in the article Cadre Noir), there's for this year the same project in... Switzerland, the 30 may 2013 (afternoon). We will work on the Freiberger breed (fr article is very good now), the Haras federal of Avenches (article exist in fr and deutsch, not in english : fr:Haras national (Suisse)) and the Swiss Warmblood. The swiss wikipedians speak deutsch and french so all these articles in french will probably be translated in deutsch the same day. If there's some en wikipedians motivated to translate all these articles in english, it promises to be an exciting experience - I think we will have a chatroom (or for me, Skype) dedicated for this day. If you are interested fo the chatroom, don't forget the large time difference between Switzerland and the United States ;) -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 23:46, 20 March 2013 (UTC)
I will create an article for the (now) international equestrian journal ichevalsavoir.com (with free licence) and for fr:wikinews. Probably the swiss stud will gave us an access for many scientifics documents and it's better if english-native-speaker work with it! -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 13:29, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
Greetings. Would anyone like to expand Chrystine Tauber's page? She serves as USEF's new president until 2017. Zigzig20s ( talk) 21:36, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
Someone want to start equestrian tourism? Seems we have no article, and that's an omission. We do have trail riding, mounted orienteering, pleasure riding and Trec, seems an obvious need here. Montanabw (talk) 20:56, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
File:JMKTaxiCarriage1.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 06:15, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
Greetings from Project Horse Racing. I wonder if any of you can help me with this. Is there a special name for a bridle without a noseband like the one being worn here [2]. Would there be a particular reason for using this type of bridle? Tigerboy1966 19:36, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
Hello, new files in the Commons:Category:Equestrian sports (and sub categories) you can find at Commons:User:Nordlicht8/Equestriansports. Maybe it is useful for your work. -- Nordlicht8 ( talk) 18:25, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
File:EmpireCityCasinoRacetrack1899.JPG has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 ( talk) 07:31, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
This ITN nomination might be of interest to folk here, as it's the genome sequence of a horse and pushes back the theoretical divergence of the horse 2million years accordng to the nature article. EdwardLane ( talk) 08:30, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
A few of the war horses so notable as to receive the highest award for such animals, the Dickin Medal, still do not have articles. I hope by posting this here, one or more members of WikiProject Equine might be encouraged to help see to it that each horse given this highest honor gets an article of its own. You might want to begin your research at the article Dickin Medal, where there are a few references if you would like to follow up. Chrisrus ( talk) 03:22, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Ok, we've got stubs made for the following war horses, all of which contain no more information as yet than the fact that they were awarded a Dickin Medal:
What is the template that will say each article is under the purview of this project? We need to start the talk page for each with the correct Wikiproject template. Chrisrus ( talk) 14:09, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
I'm not being critical of them being stubs. I also hope someone at WPEQ is interested AND has time, which is the bigger proglem; at the moment, I have other fish to fry (so to speak) but it IS an interesting topic! (Dana: This of interest to you??) Montanabw (talk) 17:21, 8 July 2013 (UTC)
If we fill out the annotated list on the bottom of the article Dickin Medal, that would be good and quite like what you describe above.
Please allow me to try to convince you that there is nothing wrong with short articles. An article should be only as long as it should be and no longer. If that means it is short, I see that as success. There are many good short articles. Here's one example: Paddy (pigeon).
Also, if each of these horses has a similar story, that doesn't mean that they all have the same story that should or could be merged easily moved into one story or that a place could or should be easily found to present all three of them as one story.
I will try to fill out one of these new stubs to demonstrate how they might become good. If you still want to have all three deleted after that, ok, but we would have to start a deletion request now that someone has already created all three. Chrisrus ( talk) 20:59, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
Hello, I've improved french article about the Dartmoor ponies, but it need photos of ponies rides - there's juste wild ponies. And I don't find on FlickR. Perhaps some of you have ? -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 12:59, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
Could anyone help please with a query that I posted on the Miscellaneous Refdesk: WP:RD/M#Shabraque_image? I seem to have stumped the resident polymaths! Alansplodge ( talk) 15:30, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
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There seems to be inconsistency in how equid subgenera are handled. On one hand we have Asinus, which covers the taxa therein. On the other hand we have Hippotigris, which somewhat confusingly redirects to zebra, which appears to be an unnatural grouping. Personally, I'd prefer that a Hippotigris article was created. Also, an Amerhippus article could be nice. Perhaps even Equus (subgenus) could be better off with an article. FunkMonk ( talk) 11:39, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
This discussion] raised for me a question of whether we should create something like Glossary of slang with equestrian roots. Could be fun. Or maybe I'm nuts and it would be a "drahmahzfest." Thoughts all? Montanabw (talk) 22:46, 6 August 2013 (UTC)
Hello all. In this time of holidays, here are some news about our work on the fr-wiki :
Soon : Dartmoor pony, Pintabian, Winged horse (in french fr:cheval ailé is different from Pegasus but in english Winged horse redirect to Pegasus), fr:Cheval d'Erlenbach (Swiss ancient breed, no article in en:wiki) and Kentucky Mountain Saddle Horse, translated to improve my english level (article reviewed in english by Dana Boomer it seems) Now we have a team work for Hanoverian horse (somebody can say me how many hannoverian horses there's in the United States ?) -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 13:16, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
The usage of Rousillon ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see talk:Rousillon (horse) -- 70.24.244.158 ( talk) 04:47, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
The guy who is obsessed about stallions and castration is back. ( /info/en/?search=Talk:Stallion#Hopefully_moving_on_-_to_a_more_objective_and_correct_.28true.29_article...) WPEQ members may wish to watchlist stallion. Montanabw (talk) 06:04, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Re Dales Pony. The Dales pony society has asked me to contact you regarding editing in particular the image used to represent the Dales. I have plenty of images that can used on free license that are a much better example of the breed than the currently used one but am unsure how to go about editing/asking for its change. I've ended up here where it says to ask questions so I am. I hope I've done this right, Many thanks Anna Pennell Dales Pony Society Annapennell ( talk) 06:58, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Thankyou! I will attempt to work through that at some point this weekend Annapennell ( talk) 11:56, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Just to add I've managed to upload two images so far to the commons category for the Dales Pony and that seems to have worked ok! How would I now go about asking for the reference image of a Dales Pony to change to either of those images (preferably the mare and foal as she is our current breed champion so a good representative of a Dales Pony). Many thanks Annapennell ( talk) 12:10, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Pitke had a good project that got dropped a few years back, IMHO, the template is worth salvaging and completing to add to the equine coat color articles. Thoughts, all? Montanabw (talk) 03:09, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
Template:Infobox horse coat has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. eh bien mon prince ( talk) 12:08, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
Horse infobox discussion. Pinging WPEQ members who work on horse "biographies": /info/en/?search=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Horse_racing#Do_we_have_a_problem.3F Montanabw (talk) 02:40, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
Here: /info/en/?search=Talk:Thrush_(horse)#Requested_move Montanabw (talk) 18:55, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
The usage of Mustang ( | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) is under discussion, see Talk:Mustang horse -- 65.94.78.70 ( talk) 09:12, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
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Oh ye who are more knowledgeable im such matters, pray peek hence and share the WPEQ wisdom forth. Bazinga. -- Pitke ( talk) 04:57, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
Need help figuring out what is going on with the Spanish Government's Stud farm program. See Talk:Yeguada Militar de Jerez de la Frontera where I posted a longish piece on the need to accurately update the article. Montanabw (talk) 04:30, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
Friendly discussion on reorganizing the horse breeding categories here if anyone wants to comment: Category talk:Horse breeding and studs Montanabw (talk) 23:33, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
The post times are as follows: Saturdays at 7:00 pm; Sundays at 6:00 pm; and featured Wednesday in the meet at 6:30.
I figured that "post time" is the scheduled beginning of the racing event (i.e. when the loudspeakers say WELCOME TO THE GENERAL VALLEY DOWNS and soon after that they bring out horses for heat 1. Now. Featured? Meet? -- Pitke ( talk) 17:31, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
It exists. No further comment: Wikipedia:WikiProject My Little Pony. Montanabw (talk) 06:14, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
Attempted deletion at /info/en/?search=Romulus_(donkey) . FYI
Someone can extract all the horse engravings from this document ? http://books.google.fr/books?id=Y0BOAAAAYAAJ&dq=Old%20English%20Black%20horse&hl=fr&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q=Old%20English%20Black%20horse&f=false It would take me hours and hours while a designer can do it in minutes -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 11:59, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Discussion consolidated here: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Agriculture#Breed_navboxes, concerning edits made by this user on Feb 12 and some on Feb 11. Montanabw (talk) 20:38, 12 February 2014 (UTC)
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For those interested, Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Mucho Macho Man/archive1. I co-nominated the FAC adding @ Tigerboy1966: and @ Froggerlaura:, who also worked on this article. At least one reviewer with a general knowledge of horses would be welcome as a reviewer! Montanabw (talk) 19:50, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I've created, in french, an article about geriatric horses and their management. It is primarily for education, many people here in France adopting older horses to prevent their slaughter but do not know at all take care... and it does not exist (to my knowledge) a french book to explain. So I used many sources of American Universities (translation is a little difficult for me) in order to source this article. here it is : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vieillesse_du_cheval. The title is a bit tricky to translate, perhaps simply something like "old horse" ? It can be a very useful item for anyone seeking information specifically to manage a horse more than twenty years, instead of having to search through items such as "horse feed", "shoeing", "worming", etc. -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 16:48, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
Have a number of good photos, will take some time to upload, as I am traveling at the moment. But stay tuned! Montanabw (talk) 08:57, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
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Hello again, before the next world equestrian games in Normandy we have done a big teamwork for article about horse riding in France. I think that in these times of football such article is therapeutic ;) By the way, we improved Palomino and The Black Stallion. And I've started an article on the subject that I studied at the university, the horse in Brittany, with a lot of mythology. Happy reading (with a good translator) If you're in the area for the World Equestrian Games 2014, I'm next. -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 00:08, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
=> The loss of a horse is a tragedy for a family of farmers, and before the arrival of veterinary medicine, there are few ways to protect themselves. This is why the Britons appeal to many saints : Eloi (against the maladies), Gildas (fertility), Hervé, Nicodemus, Herbot, Cornely and Vincent; when the pardons aux chevaux (pardon of horses). Brittany Solomon (857-874) is considered a patron saint of horsemen status it has certainly achieved through its military role in the cavalry of Brittany117. These pardons mingle sacred traditions and profanes108. Pilgrims have little distance they travel and the animal to bless. Competition even between pardons. It is a festival dedicated to horses, it is forbidden to do work that day. It brings the whole village and has an important function identitaire. Its roots are very old, swimming horses as a rite of fertility are attested in multiple regions of the world, including celtics countries. Most pardons horses are organized on June 24 or July, day of the relics of St. Eloi or the feast of Saint John. They correspond to important moments of celtic121 calendar. On this occasion, the horses are well fed and "toilettés".
Anatole Le Braz testify that we had to do three laps of the horse sanctuary, before forcing them to bow to the image of saint123. The owner of the animal makes an offering: silver, horseshoe or more frequently handle horsehair. At Gourin, it gives the tail of his horse124. After the service, the priest blesses the animal and sometimes offer a piece of blessed bread124. A procession starts at the statue of the saint, or the portant125. Water is everywhere in the rite itself, it may be watering ears, genitals, buttocks or the hooves in a fountain to invoke healing, protection or the birth of a colt126. Swimming or jumping a river correspond to a fertility rite, sometimes accompanied by projections on place121. Races and cavalcades may accompany, as well as the lighting of a bonfire127. These races are an opportunity for young people to compete and to win in the village reputation122: it is not uncommon for them to conclude on meetings then mariages128. On the sidelines of forgiveness, the discussion focuses on the merits of each horse. Young children can learn to riding for the first fois129.
This rite is so popular that Quistinic, attendance of forgiveness in July requires the construction of a new fountain in the nineteenth century88. Forgiveness horses been a progressive folklore. In the 1950s, he began to take the form of a spectacle for tourists. In the 1960s and 1970s, tractors and other machines replace horses125. In Saint-Eloy, forgiveness of Ascension Day always attracts faithful from throughout France. It is the same in St. Péver, where since 1888, horses bathe in a pool88. Solomon Britain still has its own forgiveness Chapel Plouyé117. Many chapels votive owners horses124. -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 00:16, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
Issue at ANI that may be of interest to project members: Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Undiscussed_page_moves_by_SMcCandlish. Montanabw (talk) 18:33, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
Can anyone shed any light as to what's going on here? Two of the horses in this field have cotton hoods completely blocking their eyes and ears. They're not the protective type used in racing with the mesh holes over the eyes and ears, they're clearly sensory deprivation hoods, and they're carefully tailored around the ears so someone has obviously gone to some effort and not just slipped a couple of pillowcases over their heads. None of the other horses in the field have them, so this is presumably not the isolation field for horses with some kind of eye disease; it's England with a typically grey English sky so it's highly unlikely to be any kind of sun protection; it's adjacent to a fairly heavily used public footpath and within earshot of a busy rail line so presumably not a place to keep especially skittish or vicious horses who need the Abu Ghraib treatment to stop them biting the other horses. Neither of the horses seem remotely concerned by the hoods, and nor do any of their unhooded horsey friends in the same pasture.
If anyone knows what's actually being illustrated here, do feel free either to change the title to something more explanatory. – iridescent 10:51, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
The masks are for fly and gnat eye and ear protection, they are like looking threw a window screen at your house windows. I have a horse that last year when I purchased him had flystrike which means that flies had laid eggs in his eyes and the larva were crawling/living inside his nasal cavities causing him so much pain he had rubbed the skin off of his face. The horses can see threw the masks although I take mine off at night when they sleep in the pasture for an added measure of safety, imagine wearing sunglasses at night. The masks do provide sun protection like sunglasses which is important for horses with light colored eyes. The masks may help provide some degree of cancer protection. Please let me know if I did this right,I am 50 and not a tech person here trying to learn I want to update the Belgian draft page and setup one for the American Brabants SueJorgensen ( talk) 16:59, 16 June 2014 (UTC)susanjorgensen
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Another RM discussion at Talk:Mustang_horse. Montanabw (talk) 21:20, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
Draft:James Owen Lowe is a very short stub, but given the cited sources, is this horse trainer and judge possibly notable? Roger (Dodger67) ( talk) 09:25, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello ! A small news from brittany : since yesterday, the first horse from a french breed (a breton horse) has been tested (by an american laboratory) heterozygotous for the SW-1 gene. So, it's the first french horse breed that officially carry a splashed white gene. It happens that I know the person who made this discovery and that could get some great photos of the mare tested and her son.
Note : Splashed White = Balzan in french, but we use the italian word "balzano" (yes, we're complicated people !) Enjoy ! -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 16:12, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I have created a page about Lurline Matson Roth. According to the source I used, she competed in horse shows nationally in the US. I was wondering if any of you would be able to find out more about this--perhaps from back issues of The Chronicle of the Horse, or specific books--and expand that paragraph...She also owned Why Worry Farm in Woodside, California, and as a horsebreeding farm, I am not sure if it would be notable enough to have its own page--perhaps so, if the name of the farm was used in competitions. Two of her horses, Chief of Longview (apparently born at Longview Farm) and Sweetheart on Parade, apparently won national championships, but again, I am not sure where to find sufficient info about them to create their pages, or if they would be sufficiently notable for a page...I would guess they are if they won competitons, but...it would be great to hear what some of you think, and feel free to start those pages if you can. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 13:39, 24 September 2014 (UTC)
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There is a question at the "Miscellaneous" desk that might benefit from your help: "Driving a team of horses". Thank you in advance! --- Sluzzelin talk 23:00, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
I was at Verona on Sunday, and took a few photos. I've made a gallery here in case anyone is interested. The quality is very disappointing (it was a borrowed camera), but there are some unusual breeds, including a couple that are very new and one that is extinct. Justlettersandnumbers ( talk) 03:35, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
Hello. I wonder if some of you would help me expand this page I've created, especially by adding information about the quarter horses bred there. Some of the inline references I added may be useful for this. That could either be inserted in the 'history' section, or in a separate section about horses... It is a lot of work and I won't have time for this until quite some time (it already took me longer than expected to create this page about the ranch, but glad I did it). Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 05:14, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
Could someone please add more referenced info about Irwin Molasky's horses? For example, he owned Kona Gold. I am not sure if his horses are still competing. Thank you. Zigzig20s ( talk) 12:18, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
Heads up that the Friesians-are-perfect editors appear to be poking around the Friesian horse article again. Anyone at WPEQ may also want to watchlist the article because I just inserted a (thoroughly sourced) genetic disorders paragraph which is sure to send people through the roof, seeing as how they don't even want to admit they have chestnut color in the breed. Montanabw (talk) 00:55, 18 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Yesterday, a french TV show spoken about Wikipedia (50' and after) and took this page fr:Fraude à la viande de cheval de 2013 as an example of paid POV pushing, because in France this scandal is known as "Affaire Findus", but all references to Findus have been suppressed by an e-reputation agency. It's a really big problem and your english version 2013 meat adulteration scandal is, I think, affected too. -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 17:09, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Could a native speaker please look at Nordlandshest/Lyngshest? It's been long since I used equestrian English (and it was late and I'm semi brain dead thanks to new puppy)... -- Pitke ( talk) 13:12, 13 January 2015 (UTC)
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
There is an Rfc on mustang/Mustang capitalization going on at Talk:Mustang#Capitalization_RfC where we would be grateful for input. This project is listed on the article talk page. Thanks. Fyunck(click) ( talk) 11:05, 18 January 2015 (UTC)
There's this IP user who has, apparently in pure good faith, gone and added unrelated racing images on race track articles. Unfortunately I'm pulling a total blank on what to say to this user, other than "lurk moar", so please, can someone with even an ounce of patience and decorum go to User talk:64.134.146.127 and leave a message welcoming them to contribute but remind them that unrelated illustrations aren't really needed, and, well, whatever the heck to say about this choice... -- Pitke ( talk) 13:15, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, american and english (and other strange-languages-countries) friends ! I've worked on the fr:rollkur article - with a lot of scientific sources, and a lot of horrible words who give headaches in it :) I have a question... is this :
rollkur ? IMHA reins (in french we say "renes" are strained to force the horse in rollkur position. But I'm not sure.
Thanks. -- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 20:28, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Ok ! Thank you. I've created a french article about "hypertype" but there's no equivalent about "exaggeration" ?-- Tsaag Valren ( talk) 18:51, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
Hello, I have just left a comment on the "talk" section of the Dales Pony page /info/en/?search=Dales_pony with regards to the image used. I've been asked by the Dales Pony Society to see if we can get the image changed as it is felt by breed experts to be a poor representation of the Dales Pony. I have uploaded a much better one to the commons from the society which we feel would represent the breed in a much more realistic manner. Would someone be able to take a look at it and advise if it could be changed or how we would go about doing it? Incidentally in the new RBST Watchlist issued last week the Dales Pony has now been re-catagorised back to Class 1 Critical with under 300 breeding females. https://www.rbst.org.uk/watchlist-2015 I can try to edit that in myself but I'm just working my way around the page so if someone else wishes too update the information we would be most grateful. ( Annapennell ( talk) 16:13, 26 January 2015 (UTC))