Talk:Poitevin horse

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Review
Hello, I note some possible problems with review : Nothing else for the moment --Tsaag Valren (talk) 15:21, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * "Isabelle" in french is not "isabelline" : the classification of horse coats colors is rudimentary and by "isabelle" we can mean the bay with dun gene or the bay with cream gene... There's no Poitevin Cremello so I suppose this is the dun gene.
 * primes = prims, not premiums ;)
 * I've changed the coat color description, so it should be correct now. What is "prims"? Thanks for the check - it's much appreciated! Dana boomer (talk) 20:03, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * something like bounty, bonus, gift...? --Tsaag Valren (talk) 10:36, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * OK, I think I've taken care of this. Thanks so much! Anything else? Dana boomer (talk) 19:50, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Perhaps ! We have also a problem with official coat color "nomenclature" (don't know the english for nomenclature), which is required to all breeders and owners, it's not like in the U.S., here you have no national structure who oversees the entire equine industry. So, official coat color "nomenclature" is wrong and use the name "noir pangaré" (black pangaré), but we know that seal brown (seal brown = black pangaré) is not result of black coat color with pangaré gene. We have a name that is official and erroneous and are forced to use it. Beurk. Perhaps you should precise the problem of horse coat color name in the article to clarify it ? With a "note" ? Nothing else, good job ! (When I was a little girl i was fascinate by the mustangs, so if you work this article one day just say to me) ;) --Tsaag Valren (talk) 21:07, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * So are you saying that they're actually seal brown, but they're called black pangare? If I'm reading that right, I can definitely change it in the article text. Dana boomer (talk) 21:35, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes ! Official name = Noir pangaré in french (black pangaré), but genetically it's the seal brown coat color ;) --Tsaag Valren (talk) 21:37, 10 February 2013 (UTC)


 * OK, I think I've addressed this. I've added it into the text itself, rather than as a note, because I think it's quite relevant to the discussion of color and registration. The Mustang article definitely needs work, hopefully sooner rather than later, so I'll let you know if and when we start on that! Dana boomer (talk) 21:45, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

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This article ...
... is apparently going to be on the front page of Wikipedia in a few weeks' time. It doesn't seem to be anywhere near ready for that. I'd be prepared to do some copy-editing, try to remove some of the translationese, the misunderstandings of the source text(s), and so on – unless of course anyone objects? ( Note: I read French without difficulty ) If I do that, I'll also restore the list-defined referencing which was removed without discussion with this edit in 2013 and replaced with the present mishmash, which is neither flesh nor fowl. Unless anyone asks me not to, I'll probably go ahead with this in a day or two. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 16:32, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I'll have to redo the blurb, but before I do that ... does anyone object to the re-written lead? Since the FAC nominator hasn't edited in a while, I'll ping the remaining FAC supporters: Montanabw, Jim, Giants2008, and GermanJoe. - Dank (push to talk) 01:44, 27 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Justlettersandnumbers, . Just a heads-up that the TFA for this horse may be postponed to a later date. There is a date-linked FAC that I'll run on 7 July if it is promoted in time, in which case this will be postponed, although I'll run it in October if it's not used by another TFA coordinator before then, so neither the copyedit nor the blurb will be wasted either way. I don't have any problem with the lead, although I know nothing about horses Jimfbleak - talk to me?  05:58, 27 June 2019 (UTC)


 * The style of LDR referencing you changed everything to is not standard for FAC, in fact, by putting page numbers in the text and not the footnotes, it actually makes a real mess of things. I have never taken an article to FAC in this condition and I do need to correct all of these to the citation templates. The height without conversion templates is also not standard for WPEQ FAC-quality articles.  I know that per our WP:TRUCE I've not carped about this issue on "your" articles, but this is a TFA nom and thus a little different standard applies.  Montanabw (talk) 22:58, 12 July 2019 (UTC)

Heads up: Jim intends to run this at TFA on October 7. I haven't checked the editing to the lead section yet ... is everyone on board? I'll have to rewrite the blurb that was done for July 7. - Dank (push to talk) 18:41, 5 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Unwatching here ... tweaks are welcome to the October 7 blurb. - Dank (push to talk) 14:09, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Never bred for draught work?
"the Poitevin has never been bred for draft abilities" (Intro); This claim (due to appear soon on Wikipedia's Main Page) does not seem to be verified by the text.

I am by no means an equine enthusiast, but I assume "being bred" has two applications: the selective breeding that gives rise to the breed, and breeding from them. In terms of the former, it seems clear that the horse was deliberately bred in the 17th century for marsh drainage, and the role of the horse in such drainage was, I again assume, based on dragging implements. As to the latter, there seems to be a jump of about 100 years in the history of the breed, (1685 to late eighteenth century) before there was pressure to crossbreed from these.

An absolute, and especially a negative absolute, is very difficult to verify. Given the scarcity of the breed, it may well be justifiable to say that they are "not now", or "have not been for (insert appropriate time period)", but "never" does not seem (to a layman's eyes) valid.

Am I just imagining a false image of how horses assist in drainage work? Kevin McE (talk) 09:12, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Pinging Ealdgyth ... thoughts? - Dank (push to talk) 11:55, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * it was introduced in June this year with this edit by . Beyond that... I'm not walking into this at all. Ealdgyth - Talk 12:36, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Done in the blurb ... I think, I hope. I just got rid of the offending phrase ... seems to hold together without it. That took us below 925, so I added the modern name of the region for Poitou. In this case, I'd rather not edit the article, but I don't object if anyone else does. - Dank (push to talk) 13:39, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the ping, . Yes, I did indeed add it to the lead several days before I with the reference which supports it (Bataille, page 176) – sorry about that!, selective breeding is choice of which animals to keep for breeding, in the hope that their good characteristics will be transmitted; this may be an intentional and conscious process, or not – hens that don't lay well end up in the soup-pot long before those that do. The horses that worked on marsh drainage were, according to the myth/history, imported from the Low Countries; they would presumably have been draught animals trained for the work. Some of them apparently later bred with local horses, and the resulting cross-breed (this horse) much later began to be used for mule production. There does not seem at any time to have been any breeding selection in that cross-bred population for draught abilities, and the sources seem pretty unanimous that they have essentially none. I think your image of marsh drainage work may be correct; I don't think anyone suggests that this horse participated in it. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 15:47, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
 * How does the blurb look? - Dank (push to talk) 15:49, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

This was just removed from the lead: "It may be used for driving, for riding or for equine therapy." Thoughts? - Dank (push to talk) 17:56, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Well,, I removed it. These are absolutely marginal, trivial uses. Of course it's true that they can be used for those things, but so can any horse (and many other animals too); but these are not typical uses of this horse, which excels at one thing and one thing only – bearing mules. Apparently there's one being used for rubbish collection too – I hope we're not going to put that in the lead?
 * As for the blurb, I really don't mind too much, but it'd probably be better if it resembled the (current) lead a little more closely – including the omission of that short sentence. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 19:53, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * That was my first reaction too ... aren't those things true for most breeds? But the article says (with sources): "Today, Poitevins are used mainly for driving, both in competitions and for leisure use. They are used to pull carriages for tourists. Members of the breed can be ridden more comfortably than other draft breeds due to their slimmer build. They are also used extensively for equine therapy in France." Doesn't that support the sentence in the lead? Would it help if we explained a bit more, or removed some points and focused on others? - Dank (push to talk) 20:10, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * , I don't think more than a small proportion of the problems in this article can be fixed in the next few days. I'll try to catch some of the worst ones – unless of course anyone wants me not to, which is fine too. At the moment there's so much verbiage that the main point – that this horse was crucial to the production of a famous mule – gets lost in it. We're also completely missing any account of its only other really notable characteristic: its ugliness, poor conformation, poor temperament, weak eyesight, unsuitability for any kind of hard work and so on (wait, is that me or the horse I'm describing?).
 * As for "extensive" use in hippotherapy, the source for that is this. It says that the horse is ideal for that purpose, but makes no claim that it is so used at all, let alone extensively.
 * The sources for "mainly for driving" are this RS and this book for children. Both say it is "appreciated" for driving, the first says also for riding; neither says whether they're actually used in this way (though photos show that they are sometimes hitched to a wagon of some sort), and most definitely neither says this is the main use (which, temporarily they hope, is not mule production, but conservation of the breed, as the IFCE source makes clear). I'll edit it, I suppose – or should I just leave it? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:09, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Thanks kindly for checking on that. I'll remove the sentence from the blurb for now, and ask for feedback at WP:ERRORS. - Dank (push to talk) 00:11, 5 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Character count is okay now, 925. No response at WP:ERRORS. I think it's good to go. - Dank (push to talk) 17:41, 5 October 2019 (UTC)