Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine

Welcome to Wikiproject Equine, a common forum for discussing equine-related editing issues and guidelines. Join the discussion. The goal of the project is to create, improve and organize the best info on equidae and equine-related topics, to remove and patrol vandalism, and address all aspects of equidae, equine care, etc. All participants and supporters should feel free to place their name on the participants list below.

Assessments
See WikiProject Equine/Assessment for full details.

Alerts

 * Watch User:AlexNewArtBot/EquineSearchResult and tag new articles as necessary with project banner. Note: Not all articles on this page may be covered by the project, please do not tag indiscriminately.

Task forces

 * Horse breeds - aims to provide a full description of the various horse breeds. The task force provides guidelines for a consistent outline format, elements to include, and tasks needed to be completed.
 * Horse training - methods of training horses, and all the related aspects of the relationship between people and horses.

Parentage

 * WikiProject Biology
 * WikiProject Tree of Life
 * WikiProject Animals
 * WikiProject Mammals
 * Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine
 * WikiProject Agriculture
 * Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Horse racing
 * WikiProject Veterinary medicine
 * WikiProject Rodeo

Cleanup listing

 * Table listing articles needing cleanup

Goals
Many horse articles are tagged for having no references or inadequate references. There are also many stubs. Thus, improving the verifiability of articles is important.
 * Improve citation of articles. See WP:CITE
 * Expand stubs. See Category:Horse stubs

There are over 3000 horse articles in Wikipedia, but no one can find them unless navigability improves. Thus, one of the goals of this project is to improve organization by use of wikilinking, categorization, use of "see also" sections


 * Organize categories and place articles within appropriate categories, improve overall navigability between related articles
 * Cleanup and streamline categories, propose excess categories for deletion, add new ones where needed
 * Add Equidae and WPEQ templates to all articles

Finally, many articles have assorted cleanup tags on them. Some of the major problems include an unencyclopedic tone due to one or more of the following:
 * Peacock terms, everywhere, especially things that sound like they came straight from ad copy.
 * Neutral Point of View problems. Remember WP:SOAP
 * Lack of sources. See CITE
 * Disorganization and its companion, redundancy.
 * No photos or inadequate photos. It is difficult to find free images, particularly of specialized items or activities. Active participants are urged to either shoot original photos or search free image sites (see WP:IMAGES for ideas) for photos. Upload to Wikimedia Commons if a free image, or use an appropriate Fair Use rationale for those that are not.

Other Useful Things

 * Invite active contributors to officially join the project
 * Tag articles with appropriate tags for wikifying, cleanup, stubs, etc. Better yet, edit the article to eliminate these problems!
 * Create appropriate merge proposals and redirects for multiple articles found on essentially the same topic
 * Patrol and remove vandalism in articles. Request semi-protection as appropriate. (Horse and Pony are permanently semi-protected due to near-constant vandalism)
 * Use the information located in the task force on horse breeds to add additional articles on horse breeds as listed above. (See also list of horse breeds, which has hidden text placeholders for articles that need to be created.)
 * Upload more images to Wikimedia commons and to appropriate articles. Also organize images for easier access in commons
 * Place WikiProject tags on talk pages to draw additional members and to allow fast linking to project page, improve navigation, and all the other good things that proper tags can provide.
 * Add template template to bottom of ARTICLE pages, as seen at the bottom of this page
 * Add the template to TALK pages.
 * Add or  to TALK pages of articles with the respective focuses of horse breeds or horse training.

Our new and improved project template looks like this:

If an article needs to be cross-linked to the Horse racing project, here is their template: It looks like this:

Other templates
See Category:Horse templates for all known, active equine-related templates


 * Infoboxes:
 * Template:Infobox named horse – Used for articles on individual horses. Cut and paste to insert, then add additional information
 * Template:Infobox Horse – Used for horse breed articles only. Cut and paste to insert, then add additional information
 * Navboxes:
 * Template:Equine placed into articles this way: – Nav template for general reference used by WPEQ consensus at the bottom on all horse breed articles.  Should appear on all horse health articles, and seems to appear randomly on other articles as editors see fit.  No firm consensus on use outside of horse breed articles, but current practice favors inclusion.  Does not have to be altered for individual articles
 * Template:Equine coat colors placed into articles this way: – Nav template to all known color articles, used at the bottom of color-related articles only. Does not have to be altered for individual articles.
 * Template:Horse equipment placed into articles this way:  For all tack and equipment articles, and those related to tack and equipment (new).
 * Stub tags:


 * If you have any suggestions, put them on the talk page.
 * Please feel free to add this userbox to your userpage: :

Participants

 * User:4444hhhh
 * User:Montanabw
 * User:Dana boomer
 * User:Warlordjohncarter
 * User:Culnacreann
 * User:Doug
 * User:T-bonham
 * User:Ealdgyth
 * User:KathrynLybarger
 * User:Nurmsook
 * User:Equus Caballus
 * User:Equus Canadiensis
 * User:Owain.davies
 * User:Cgoodwin
 * User:Getwood
 * Maxim Stoyalov
 * User:Countercanter
 * User:Bogbumper
 * User:Eventer
 * User:Alsiola vet
 * User:HorseGirl93
 * User:HorsemansWiki
 * User:NancyHeise
 * User:Chiron2
 * User:PonyGirlGB
 * User:Computer tech0001
 * User:Majestysquest
 * User:Hopeful Farm
 * User:Juan25
 * User:Paper pterodactyl
 * User:Arsdelicata
 * Pitke (talk) mainly active at fi.wikipedia and Commons
 * User:Taylor Lane
 * Firesongponies (talk)
 * Horsesarecool123 (talk)
 * Jack Merridew
 * User:Equestrian1942
 * User:Billpolo
 * User:EquiVet
 * Miniapolis (talk)
 * User:83d40m
 * User:ThatPeskyCommoner
 * User:justlettersandnumbers
 * User:sandere0
 * WarlanderHorse (talk)
 * RafikiSykes (talk)
 * 17adavis7 (talk)
 * Cheyenne (talk)
 * Tsaag Valren (talk) : for translations en => fr only, interwikis, pics, etc.
 * Sainsf (talk)
 * User:Zigzig20s
 * SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  – created Persian onager, Turkmenian kulan. Relevant interests: landraces & formal breeds; early domestication & ancient history with humans, coloration genetics; taxonomy & nomenclature standards, and system-wide cleanup/consistency.
 * CanFan57 (talk)
 * Tangledweb (talk)
 * Brinacor (talk)
 * User:Cavalryman V31
 * White Arabian Filly (Neigh)
 * User talk:JacksLondon
 * Atsme 📞📧
 * Horsegeek (Talk)
 * JackieLL007 (talk) 02:28, 9 February 2016
 * User:Kendall Shackelford
 * User:Saddleseatequitation (talk)
 * Domdeparis (talk)
 * ※〶 Japanese breeds, (controversial)horse industry as whole(Broken grammar/sentence structure)
 * User:dawnleelynn (bullriding, rodeo, some horses)
 * User:Curdigirl (talk)
 * User:Enzogato
 * User:Qwe144
 * User:Adityavagarwal
 * Iamnotabunny (talk)
 * WanderinGwyneth
 * FelixtheNomad (talk) 21:07, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
 * gobonobo + c

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.