User talk:Horsecanter

Regarding edits to List of horse breeds
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WHOA!
Your work is well-intentioned, but you are screwing up this page by creating DOZENS of red links, eliminating breeds on the list, putting pony breeds in with the horse breeds and generally making a mess! Please stop. Only add new breeds if there are NO articles on wikipedia by any name and if the "breed" is really a breed--that is, can you create an article about it? Please also do NOT change the names in linked articles because this creates a double redirect or a red link.

I don't think you mean to vandalise this page, but you are causing major problems. Please stop. List your additions on the discussion page and we will work to put them in with a more organized manner. Montanabw 21:32, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Welcome to Wikipedia. It might not have been your intention, but your recent contribution removed content from. Please be more careful when editing articles and do not remove content from Wikipedia without a good reason, which should be specified in the edit summary. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you would like to experiment again, please use the sandbox. Montanabw 21:37, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

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This notice also goes for Banker Horse and anything else that might be copied/pasted. BigDT 13:30, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Please stop this!
I believe you are well-intentioned, but PLEASE STOP editing the list of horse breeds until you know what you are doing. You are adding "breeds" that are not breeds (The American Albino has been renamed, for example), you are dublicating links (Australian Brumby redirects to Brumby and we aren't supposed to create double redirects in Wikipedia) and you continue to add red links (some are misspellings and some have no article connected to them). At any rate, you are duplicating work that has already been done, you are working from inaccurate sources (there is no such thing as a separate breed or registry for "Egyptian Arabians" for example, that's a marketing thing), and you need to stop editing this list until you understand wikipedia better and are more careful. You have been given two formal warnings, but I wanted to explain why your work is causing problems before I request that the administrators block your account. You appear to be very enthusiastic, but you need to slow down and learn the system before you mess with this article again, please. Montanabw 02:19, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

Much Better! Some hints
You are starting to figure out the world of wikipedia and creating some useful material. Your work on the assorted Warmblood articles is especially useful, as many are still stubs. Thank you! A couple of suggestions and cautions, however:


 * 1)  Please check more carefully to see if articles have already been created; I put merge tags on American Cream Draft and Australian Riding Pony because there are already articles on these breeds under slightly different names.  Merging (see WP:Merge )and redirecting (Redirect) is appropriate in situations like this, even if there are slight differences.  (For example, the Welsh pony article once had separate small articles for each sub-type, they were merged into a single article)


 * 1)  Remember to wikilink any new articles and add wikilinks to other articles where the topic might be mentioned (a search often reveals other articles.)  Also remember to spell check.  We all miss stuff, and others often will catch typos, but be as careful as possible.


 * 1)  Please be very careful not to create articles about "breeds" that are really just a subtype of other breeds.  Check the "Category" link at the bottom to see what's there, as well as doing a search with all lower-case letters.


 * 1) The best way to avoid the "breeds that aren't really breeds" problem is to cite the source of a group that actually has a separate registry (as opposed to merely a promotional organization) You are better off to expand an existing article. Please cite references or sources for your material, such as a breed registry or organization.  Even then, if there is controversy, best to be careful.  (A registry alone doesnt make a breed, however; there was a big edit war several months back over including "color" breeds on the breed page, and when consensus was reached, they were all tossed out in favor of the pages about each color.)


 * 1)  Wikipedia capitalization conventions are to capitalize only the first letter of a title and leave other words in lower case.  I don't particularly like this, but can live with it.  However, the problem is that you may miss existing articles and create red links if you capitalize titles, such as List of horse breeds versus List Of Horse Breeds.  It's an ongoing pain in the you-know-what, but oh well.

Hang in there. We are glad to see constructive edits! Montanabw 16:43, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Doing great, but one suggestion
You are donig really well at locating and creating horse breed articles and adding them to the list. However, one small editing thing. List of horse breeds is just an article, any usually not of any use as a "see also" section. What IS useful is to add the CATEGORY "Horse breeds" to the bottom of articles that aren't categorized. The List of horse breeds article is the first item in the category. I use the list of horse breeds article as a piped wikilink whenever the word "breed" or "horse breed" appears within the text of the article. Montanabw 21:00, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

As a reference, using categories is better wikipedia practice:


 * Examples of markup language for what I am talking about:


 * breed of horse
 * horse breed
 * horse breed

Happy editing and thank you for your now-useful contributions! Montanabw 21:00, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject France
Hello! We are a group of editors working to improve the quality of France related articles. You look like someone who might be interested in joining us in the France WikiProject and so I thought I'd drop you a line and invite you! We'd love to have you in our project :-) STTW (talk)  20:10, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Message posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007
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Message posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007
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Message posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007
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Message posted on Saturday, April 28, 2007
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Butseriouslyfolks 18:08, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Please remove all text you copied from other websites
Including any articles you translated verbatim. Thank you. --Butseriouslyfolks 18:14, 28 April 2007 (UTC)


 * (Don't sweat this, you're getting the hang of wikipedia, but maybe check out the help pages a bit more...you can rewrite things in your own words, just avoid copy and paste. Write a new article WITHOUT looking at the source material (write what you have learned in your own words) and use references from the site, just don't use it verbatim...this can be fixed, just takes time.  Better to create a stub and add to it later than a copyright violation...Good luck!) Montanabw 03:11, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

Want a minor job that needs to be done?
If you want to do a small cleanup job here on wikipedia, maybe check the Horse Stubs category and see if all the breed stubs (that are really breeds) are listed in List of horse breeds. Most of them appear to be, but may be a couple missing. Be careful, though, and be sure they really ARE breeds (Al Khamsa, for example, is NOT). Not a laugh a minute, but maybe helpful. I also caught some duplicate articles there and marked them for merging. (Actually merged Connemara ponies with Connemara Pony without asking, as the first was only one sentence long...!) Montanabw 05:00, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Veterinary Medicine
Hi, you expressed an interest in WikiProject Veterinary Medicine, which I've just moved into projectspace, so feel free to watchlist and contribute over there. Thanks :) --Quiddity 06:22, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Thank You
Hello, Horsecanter. I would like to thank you regarding your contribution to WikiProject Horse breeds of writing the article, Bosnian Pony. This helps the WikiProject, even though the article (as of now) is a stub. Again, thank you. Swannie 19:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Breed articles
Hey Horsecanter and Yemenah, I am not really trying to make your lives miserable by various tags, I just am trying to encourage the creation of breed articles that are REAL articles. There are a lot of new "breeds" out there that are mostly someone's marketing ploy, and a lot of "breeds" that are types, not breeds (like Sport Horse). Anyway the point is that an article needs at least one good full citation and should follow at least a sketch of an outline as found in the Horse Breeds Wikiproject. Stubs are OK, sometimes with rare breeds, we can't find much, but try to say SOMETHING unique about the breed, like where it comes from, what its unique characteristics are, etc...don't just create a sentence to remove a red link. Something like a breed is a "medium-sized riding horse" is not an article. Tell us why we should care, at least a little. Thanks. Montanabw 21:26, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

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Basque pony
Hi, I have a question - I was tidying up some Basque related articles and came across the Basque pony article you created some time ago. We're not sure if this deals with the same horse breed as the Pottoka page. It certainly appears to be but I'd be grateful if you could clarify which breed you had in mind. Thanks! Akerbeltz (talk) 02:53, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

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