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horses and their training

Thank you for quality such as horse trainer Bud Dunn and Black Allan (horse), for your lively gallery of boxes, for collaboration and helping new users, - white Wikipedian who wants to turn the project green, you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:39, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Wow, thanks Gerda Arendt! Much appreciated! White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 20:34, 26 October 2016 (UTC)

Heads up on donkeys

Just a heads up that after a long and contentious editing dispute, it was agreed that it does appear that most donkeys aren't measured in hands. Which is odd, but I dug into it and I had to acknowledge that even in the US, they seem most often to be measured in inches -- and it was a heckuva bad editing dispute in general (the entire horse hands template was brought into play. It was one of those "I almost quit over it" messes). Anyway, just letting you know that the donkey articles are kind of special...  ;-) Montanabw^(talk) 23:32, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Montanabw Well that's something else new learned for me. Horsegeek^(talk) 23:23, 3 November 2016 (UTC)Horsegeek

Trust me, I never want to go through a nightmare like this and this again. Luckily, no one was blocked, and both editors are still editing, but that may have been the closest I ever came to throwing in the towel and quitting WP altogether. As a result, there are a few "third rails" that are approached only with great caution. One of which is that we don't use the hands template for donkeys. I do not fully agree with it, but it is a compromise that has kept the peace now for about five years. That said, there are still some hard feelings out there. Unfortunately, they are mutual. I just don't have the energy to poke the bear. (Sigh) Montanabw^(talk) 04:11, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

I guess it's like the Mini horse people insist on measuring their little fuzzballs at the end of the mane, as opposed to the top of the withers. (Am I the only person who has realized that makes them seem smaller by knocking off an inch or two?) White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 21:20, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Or it would knock off an inch or so if they had withers... may just be that they can't find the withers... LOL! Montanabw^(talk) 07:48, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Dunn

Saw you were getting trolled on the Bud Dunn article. I always check the contribs of folks who do that, and when they've been editing less than a month, you know there is someone with issues-- and probably a blocked editor trying to evade a block. Best to just remember WP:DFTT (like I do... or not... hah!) Feel free to post on my talk page the next time that happens. If I'm not around, my page stalkers will be. By the way, for a TFA, you survived pretty well - just the usual vandals and only two trolls! Montanabw^(talk) 06:27, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, I have seen that happen to other TFAs and it's always somebody who has no FA experience or even content creation experience. Most of them only have a couple of edits, period. It's pretty ridiculous. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 20:49, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Been a while

I haven't been editing on Wikipedia for a while now! Just came back for a few check ups or two, but my English seems to have gotten better. I'm pretty sure this is confusing, but did you know you met me when I was still in elementary? Probably not surprising. Happy late Halloween, and I hope to work with you and some others more on Wikipedia in the future. Horsegeek^(talk) 02:43, 3 November 2016 (UTC)Horsegeek

Hi Horsegeek, glad to see you back! I knew you had talked about school, but didn't know it was that. I hope you had a good Halloween; I celebrated the way I always do, by buying those big bags of candy the next day when they go on sale! Hopefully you will be doing more editing, we have a lot of horsey stuff that needs work or expansion. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 20:01, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, found a lot of things lately that's been distracting me. I took programming classes and got hooked. Might want to do that kind of thing later. I've also started writing a book I'm hoping to publish in the future, except for the problem I don't know how. Language Arts class is helping me a lot with my English. Wrote a 4-5 page narrative, and got a 98/100 score. That makes me confident that my writing's decent.

Also, that's great! Handing out candy to the little kids is great fun. Except for when it gets late, and the big kids come. Have to turn off the lights after that. I do hope to be able to edit more. Currently, I'm trying to get my draft of the Hequ Horse live. Been getting some help on that. Meanwhile, I probably will look around for some more horsey articles to edit. ;) Horsegeek^(talk) 23:21, 3 November 2016 (UTC)Horsegeek

I have several languishing drafts in my sandboxes and you are welcome to go play in there any time! Some that need help include:

• User:Montanabw/Margaret Cabell Self -- We were all working on this and then got distracted. I'd like to find one good photo of her to include (she is deceased, so if we can't find a PD image, we can use something as a fair use one)
• User:Montanabw/Thoroughbred Daily News] -- Started by a COI editor and abandoned in draft space, I had it userfied. This is a legit mainstream TB magazine that deserves its own article
• User:Montanabw/Mike de Kock This is less than a stub, but the guy is notable

We also have some kickass women race horse trainers in redlinks:

• Kristin Mulhall
• Carla Gaines

Just some ideas... I think I'll cross-post this list on my own talk page, actually. Montanabw^(talk) 04:45, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

I'll try to help with those. I went through a period of not editing much because I had a bad resporitory infection that lasted 2 weeks, and in the middle of it my grandfather died of old age (he was in his 90s). Now I have more time, and I'm trying to get some of my own sandboxed drafts into mainspace. There's also some additional stuff I'm looking into writing. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 21:25, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

• I remember that one of Margeret! Tried to find a picture of her, but I'm sure the results aren't too right. 1.https://www.google.com/search?q=margaret+cabell+self&client=tablet-android-hp&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjDlcvmpJDQAhUK32MKHQGMCJ0Q_AUIBygB&biw=1920&bih=1080#imgrc=5k_-eFyf-Vi88M%3A think that's her? Can't find many. I may be able to help out on the others in my free time, but I probably won't make a new article in a while, working on one for Asian month. Thanks for the links Montanabw! And White Arabian Filly, I'm glad you're back from that infection, someone I knew died from one back a few months ago. Now my great uncle's about to die from diebetes. Horsegeek^(talk) 23:52, 4 November 2016 (UTC)Horsegeek

Asking for some help

Hi! Pretty sure I am in the right place. I saw you responded to my question and linked the Dead End Pages, could you give me a couple of pointers on how I could help? You seem to know a lot. Thanks TwistedByFate (talk) 19:55, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi again TwistedByFate. If you mean help in the dead end pages, just put double brackets around whatever you think has an article. Almost all towns have articles, which can be linked like this: [[Nashville, Tennessee]]. People articles can be tougher because they are disambiguated by adding "singer", "actor", or whatever in parentheses after the name. To link to an actor named John Smith and make sure the link goes to the right page, type [[John Smith (actor)|John Smith]].

If you're interested in editing any specific topics, I'd suggest you look at the Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory. There's a project for pretty much every interest, and most will have a list of articles that need to be worked on. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 20:55, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Okay, thank you for the help! TwistedByFate (talk) 21:00, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

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The IP's been given a week off. :) - BilCat (talk) 23:57, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

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Another kitten for you!

Congratulations on your new cat! Enjoy! I just got another one myself about 3 months ago.

BilCat (talk) 21:48, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, BilCat! I have had cats most of my life (you pretty much have to have them on a farm or else get overrun by rats), except that I've been without since my last one died about a year and a half ago. I found this one via the Internet; he's about three months old and is gray with white feet. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 23:55, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

I understand. My new one is all black, and about 10-12 months old. We're not sure of her age, she came from another home, where she wasn't well-taken care of. I think she has breathing issues, as she seemed to be having trouble with all the smoke from the wildfires in our area. - BilCat (talk) 00:38, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Mine came from a trailer park (the kid brought him home without asking, and her aunt got him, but then the aunt's cat started beating him up) but he is healthy and they seem to have taken good care care of him. There are a couple of wildfires in my state too, although they are small and mostly contained. Last week we were smothered in smoke from the big fires over in Georgia, though. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 16:48, 22 November 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, we had smoke from those fires too. It was pretty bad for awhile. Thank God the smoke's let up. My older cat doesn't get along well with the new one, so they have to timeshare my bed! - BilCat (talk) 13:50, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

I just ran across Farm cat. It needs a lot of citations, but cat sources aren't something I've dealt with much. - BilCat (talk) 13:52, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

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Same To You

Happy Thanksgiving to you too, and a safe one if you have to be on the roads. Mateusz K (talk) 00:26, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

I'm eating dinner with my parents; I don't think anybody else will be there because the rest of the family came earlier in the week. (And the farrier! And the new kitten!) White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 16:01, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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Thanks Horsegeek! White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 21:05, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

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Wonderful welcome!

Thank you, White Arabian Filly! Dabbled in Wiki some years ago...contributed a picture of my Paso, and it is still on the Paso page. (grin) Would like to start contributing again. Noticed that Montanabw contributed on the Piaffe page, but wrote a note that the picture and animation are not the best examples, but that she didn't feel qualified to judge. I used to be an upper level rider, and would like to contribute, edit, etc. I will go read the articles you suggested, as it has been some time, and have at it. Love this community!Soltera (talk) 14:05, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

You're welcome. Yes, the piaffe pics/animation are not great and if you can find better ones that would be awesome. The trouble with finding illustrations is that they must be free, and most good photographers don't release pictures that way. Which Paso is yours? White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 19:31, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Guessing this is it: Montanabw edited in it recently according to the history https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paso_Fino&action=history

Horsegeek^(talk) 21:14, 6 December 2016 (UTC)Horsegeek

New harness racing categories

I am creating categories to distinguish them from orther forms of horse racing: Which of these do you prefer for each of the various countries. Or do you have a different format idea?

• Category:American harness racing trainers

OR

• Category:Canadian harness horse trainers

Thanks. Mateusz K (talk) 15:53, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

I think harness racing sounds a little better, since that's what the main article is called. I agree with you on categories, if there are multiple articles but no category then one should definitely be there. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 19:28, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

This cat is for you :)

Lol, xD. Just had to give this kitty.

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Possible Good Faith Edits but Still need Reverted

Hello WAF! Hope all is well. Very late last night, an IP user 108.48.127.5 made some edits in Professional Bull Riders and Professional Bull Riders: Heroes and Legends. I looked at their contributions history and it doesn't appear that they are a vandal, just misguided. I think they genuinely believe it's okay to add lots of red links. I don't know who they think are going to create all those articles, though, lol. You have the rollback permission that lets you roll back several edits at once or else I would do that in the topic I have been so active in-the Heroes and Legends one. So if you could do that, that would be great. Thanks! Dawnleelynn (talk) 17:52, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

I have rollbacked them, but I have to explain the reasoning on the talk page because for some reason rollback won't let you leave an edit summary. I agree on the billions of redlinks; it's OK to add a few, but that was a little much all at once. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 23:00, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Yes, that's a good point. Having a couple is okay, I need to keep that in mind. But making long lists is too much-glad you agreed with me. I'm glad I asked you first though, just in case. I didn't know you couldn't leave comments with the rollback. I hope they see the talk page comment instead. I know I wasn't aware of the user and talk pages until montanabw sent me a welcome which I saw in my inbox. Anyway, thanks again! Merry Christmas. Dawnleelynn (talk) 23:08, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas to you too. I think there is some feature you can enable on rollback in order to explain the revert, but I don't have it. It's supposed to be just for vandalism, but if I do come across a lot of inappropriate edits to the same page I'll rollback and then leave a talk message explaining why. You can undo multiple edits by starting at the top and working down. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 23:14, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

Ok, start at the top and work down, gotcha, thumbs up! Time for a break now, see you later. :) Dawnleelynn (talk) 23:20, 14 December 2016 (UTC)

The holidays are almost here!!

Atsme📞📧 22:07, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

That's the cutest worm I've ever seen! 😀😃 Merry Christmas, Atsme! White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 22:46, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

	Merry Christmas!
	Have a safe Christmas! Horsegeek(talk) 17:04, 16 December 2016 (UTC)Horsegeek

You too, Horsegeek! Knowing the neighbors, I'll probably get to see some fireworks on New Year's! 🎆White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 22:41, 16 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas

Thanks for the thoughtfulness and the same to you and your horse! Not looking forward to long, long flight but the end result is always worth it. Have posted a worksheet for Montanabw's suggested WikiProject Harness Horse racing here. Please edit away as I have no idea what I'm doing! Also have posted comments & suggestions regarding the "Infobox racehorse" with the new "Infoboxmodule Standardbred" to here. Mateusz K (talk) 00:20, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

I hope you have a good Christmas. I'm not going to have to fly because my family lives close, but some friends from out of state are coming to see me, which should be fun. I'll stop by and take a look at the new project and edit it if need be. I think we may be able to use Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine/Horse breeds as a model for how to set it up I think you've got a good start; it can be moved to be a subpage of the basic Horse racing project at some point. I made a couple edits that hopefully improved it. I saw the edit to the main racehorse Infobox talk page. I especially think we could use the groom parameter. If you leave a parameter out when adding the infobox to the article, it doesn't do anything to mess it up, so jockey and driver could be alternates: use jockey if it's a Thoroughbred, driver if a Standardbred. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 22:55, 19 December 2016 (UTC)

Leave Thursday for the holiday. I just did some posting that, by accident, led me to some New Zealand & Australian harness racing articles. Contributors have created some very well done articles but changes as well as the new Racehorse infobox are needed to regularize things relative to all HR articles in all countries. (The Auckland Trotting Cup is a race for pacers!) As such, it would be greatly appreciated if and when you can find the time to fix up and finish that WikiProject Harness Horse racing page (change blue box color too?). That would be a very important start as I have a list of things to post so as to get input from project members regarding collaboration with respect to creating standardized formatting, categories and the like. Mateusz K (talk) 03:02, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

I've alerted the folks at the main racehorse project about the proposed changes, so maybe we can get that done. What color would you want it changed from the blue? Any color can be used as long as it contrasts with the text, so people with color blindness or eye problems can still read it. I have an idea for a possible article that's related to Standardbreds; pacing and trotting races under saddle. In the south, where I live, they traditionally have pacing classes at some Tennessee Walking Horse and Racking Horse shows. I had assumed that the horses in those classes were Walkers or Rackers that just happened to pace, since both of those go back to Standardbreds and the gaited gene is basically the same as the pacing gene (in fact, if you get a Standardbred that racks instead of paces, you can register it as a Racking Horse). Anyway, while researching Horse industry in Tennessee I came across a book that talks about how in 1880s/1890s Tennessee, they raced Standardbreds at the pace or trot under saddle, but it wasn't as popular as harness racing. I don't know what the title of the article would be, but it interested me. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 22:54, 21 December 2016 (UTC)

All the best for 2017!

Hello White Arabian Filly,
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Merry Christmas from me! Thanks for your company during 2016. We have seen the percentage of articles on women rise from 15% to 16.77%. 20% is within our grasp and that's an increase of a third over what we first found. Victuallers (talk) 13:55, 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Holiday card

Wishing you a Charlie Russell Christmas, White Arabian Filly!

"Here's hoping that the worst end of your trail is behind you That Dad Time be your friend from here to the end And sickness nor sorrow don't find you." —C.M. Russell, Christmas greeting 1926. Montanabw(talk) 23 December 2016 (UTC)

Merry Christmas my new friend

Merry Christmas to WAF, Santa loves horses too! Dawnleelynn (talk) 00:40, 24 December 2016 (UTC)

Yet another

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Happy New Year!

Hello White Arabian Filly: Thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia, and have a great New Year! Cheers, dawnleelynn^(talk) 17:24, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

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Delete a page for me?

Hi WAM!

I think you have the permission? If so, could you delete User:Dawnleelynn/Sandbox 2 for me? Thanks! If not, I'll montanabw. Hope you had a great holiday weekend with friends and fowl. hmm, p.s. Am I allowed to delete pages in my user space? dawnleelynn^(talk) 04:15, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, there's no deletion permission given; you have to be an admin to delete stuff, so Montanabw can't do it either. (The permissions I do have are rollback, autopatrol and page patrol). You can request a deletion though, by adding the G7 template to the top of the page. That'll make it show up in a list of pages that their authors have requested deletion of. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 22:26, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. It's good to know how I can get it done in the future. I can't get that link to work in the browser anymore, though. So, I don't think there's a page to delete or I did not copy it correctly. It's now out there in la la land perhaps. haha :) Everyday I learn more about Wikipedia. I learned about 3 new templates today, one from you and two from Brianehe. Enjoy your evening! thank again. dawnleelynn^(talk) 23:59, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Happy New Year White Arabian Filly!

Happy New Year!

White Arabian Filly,
Have a prosperous, productive and wonderful New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.

Rubbish computer (HALP!: I dropped the bass?) 16:36, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Billie Nipper

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Dunn

You could add a gallery, even though the con with that is that it adds a bunch of white space lol. Happy editing! WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 19:23, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

WikiOriginal-9, I thought they didn't like galleries in articles? Anyway, I think there must be some way of formatting the pictures so they don't look weird. It's a relief to me to have good pictures for one article at least; on most of them I've done there are no decent free pictures available. Those got uploaded during the FAC. Somebody saw them online and emailed the author, who agreed to release them to Commons. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 19:32, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

I'm not sure what they like. And I was just making a drive-by edit. You can format the pictures however you wish. Yh, pictures are hard to come by most of the time. And those ones are probably more of a positive down the side or whatever than not having them at all. Readers don't really care about the specific formatting that much. WikiOriginal-9 (talk) 19:37, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

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Hi White Arabian Filly, Curdigirl here. Thanks for the warm welcome! Glad to be on Wikipedia as a volunteer and even happier to find the Equine Project! I just took a quick stroll through your talk page and smiled real big and broad. I grew up in the city and am a country girl at heart; never able to have the kinds of animals you have on the farm. My horse fever started young and I pursued it via: books; movies; Girl Scouts horseback riding camps; horseback riding lessons (begging my mom to let me); Breyer model horses; drawing horses; horse magazines; friends who also loved horses but didn't have them and on the list goes. During family vacations to Wisconsin, I'd look for a stable and offer my stable mucking & grooming services for free in order to ride. Now I'm all grown up and still live "in the city" with hopes of moving out, closer to the possibility of being near horses. This is a start! And I have personally found that horse people are some of the best people. So, I hope to be of use around here, mucking out some articles and grooming others. Neigh! 00:17, 10 January 2017 (UTC)Curdigirl — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curdigirl (talk • contribs)

Glad to see you here. We have a lot of articles that are not in great shape or are too short, so feel free to expand or cleanup as needed. I've lived in the country my entire life and had animals, but couldn't have a horse till I was 16 and could take care of it myself. Here on Wikipedia, I tend to focus on horses and horse trainers but sometimes do other things like Montana Silversmiths. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 16:29, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

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They look good to me. The main thing they want us to watch out for is color contrast, making sure the text contrasts with the background so people with eye problems can read it. Yours look fine to me. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 16:33, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Thanks for checking them over. Yes, I will have to watch the colors. The colors I used on these two I just created were to match the colors of the organizations. So, yes, I may run into an instance where the colors of the theme I am trying to match are an issue. Good advice! :) dawnleelynn^(talk) 00:04, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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What are your qualifications on Feist dogs. I have hunted & raised them for years. I am a NKC breed inspector. The descriptions given here would not qualify to register a dog as a Feist. One pic shows a rough coated dog of unknown origin. My changes where correct. RTV67 (talk) 06:14, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

RTV67, I've owned Rat Terriers for years (and had them mistaken for everything from Fox Terriers to Blue Heelers--don't know what was up with that one.) Looking at your recent changes, I now agree with them. The rough-coated dog was probably a crossbreed and doesn't belong on an article about a pure breed. As for descriptions, the biggest problem is that the article has no references. If you want to improve it, you can reference the official breed standards and books about the breed. A few more things to remember:

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3. No need for references in the lead, as it's supposed to be the summary of the rest of the article.
4. You can look at the better dog breed articles, like Pembroke Welsh Corgi to get an idea of how articles can be structured. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 22:59, 16 January 2017 (UTC)

I wasn't trying to write the information. Only correct the misinformation and repeated descriptions. The dog in the pic would mot pass NKC inspection. Problem with this breed is generalities and misinformed owners. RTV67 (talk) 07:14, 17 January 2017 (UTC)

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I nominate White Arabian Filly (talk · contribs · count · logs) to be Editor of the week. White Arabian Filly is a humerous, fun-loving editor who has created several good articles, and has written many horse ones. She helps expand the horse part of Wikipedia, but doesn't get enough deserved attention for it. In life, White Arabian Filly is probably busier than I am, yet has contributed even more than I have with all the free time I have! Please nominate her. Horsegeek^(talk) 02:54, 6 January 2017 (UTC)

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Thanks again for your efforts! Lepricavark (talk) 15:35, 28 January 2017 (UTC)