Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine

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WikiProject Equine

Shortcut	WP:EQUINE
Category	WikiProject Equine
Portal	Horses
Wikimedia Commons	Equus caballus
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Equine}}
Helps organise child projects?	Yes
Assessment	Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine/Assessment

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.

Equine articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1	1	8	26			36
FL				4			4
FM					8		8
A		1					1
GA	3	2	17	80		1	103
B	4	12	32	111		72	231
C	4	10	58	536		21	629
Start		26	90	1,955		50	2,121
Stub		2	6	2,878	20	41	2,947
List		1	12	82		6	101
Category				4	1,629		1,633
Disambig				1	22		23
File					10		10
Portal					1		1
Project					20		20
Redirect			3	81	121		205
Template					205		205
NA				1	1		2
Other					8		8
Assessed	12	55	226	5,759	2,045	191	8,288
Unassessed				3		55	58
Total	12	55	226	5,762	2,045	246	8,346
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 31,583			Ω = 5.22

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine/Assessment for full details.

37 edits	Megahippus
13 edits	Wild horse
10 edits	Billy Twomey
10 edits	Mounted police
10 edits	César Parra
8 edits	Equus lenensis
8 edits	Equestrianism
7 edits	Mustang
7 edits	Flemish Horse
7 edits	List of Canadian Professional Rodeo Association Champions

These are the articles that have been edited the most within the last seven days. Last updated 10 November 2024 by HotArticlesBot.

Article alerts for WikiProject Equine

Today's featured article requests 17 Jan 2025 – William Robinson Brown (talk · edit · hist) has been proposed for Today's Featured Article by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion Categories for discussion 07 Nov 2024 – Category:African-American jockeys (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Crowsus (t · c); see discussion Good article nominees 01 Aug 2024 – Main Street Vehicles (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Jackdude101 (t · c); start discussion Articles to be merged 28 Oct 2024 – Pony Club Association of New South Wales (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pony Club by Grorp (t · c); see discussion 28 Oct 2024 – Pony Club Association of Victoria (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pony Club by Grorp (t · c); see discussion 28 Oct 2024 – Pony Club Australia (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pony Club by Grorp (t · c); see discussion 28 Oct 2024 – New Zealand Pony Clubs Association (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pony Club by Grorp (t · c); see discussion 28 Oct 2024 – United States Pony Clubs (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pony Club by Grorp (t · c); see discussion 28 Oct 2024 – The Pony Club (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Pony Club by Grorp (t · c); see discussion

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• 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.

• 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.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Horse racing
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Veterinary medicine
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Rodeo

• Table listing articles needing cleanup

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.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2019-05-21 This page lists articles to be created, cleaned up or otherwise edited within the Equine Wikiproject. Create General Universal Equine Life Number (or maybe Equine Identification or something like that). An important & rapidly emerging subject in the field of equine public policy, equine public health, and comparative international law (esp. conflict of jurisdiction issues). Lots of online info available, but much of it in French. See http://www.ueln.net/ Horse breeds This section lists unwritten articles on horse and pony breeds. Please insert a placeholder in List of horse breeds when adding to this list. When article is created, add it to the List of horse breeds article under the proper category and remove it from this list. Additional articles needed may have placeholders within hidden text at the list of horse breeds Azores horse Buohai horse Buryat horse Hessen horse Kiso<-- blue linked as this is a disambig Montana Traveler Sachsen Warmblood Sanhe Horse Chinese breed of horse Shales horse (may be a single sire, not a "breed", needs research) (For the Japanese horse breeds Kiso, Miyako, Toakara, and Tsushima, note some info at) "Country Report (For FAO State of the World’s Animal Genetic Resources Process)", Editorial Committee Office of the Japanese Country Report, Animal Genetic Resources Laboratory, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan. Pony breeds Belgian Riding Pony Bhirum pony Bulgarian Mountain pony Karakachan pony Kirdi pony Losino (bluelinked to geographic region) Nigerian pony Expand For articles that need expansion, see Category:Horse stubs and Category:Equestrian biography stubs. Editing and Cleanup Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine/Cleanup listing - This is a bot-generated page of all pages tagged with cleanup tags that also have the WPEQ tag on the talk page. Dozens of articles have cleanup tags, but a few specific articles that need serious work are: Laminitis -- critical, high importance topic and it's a mess with minimal citation Equine Exertional Rhabdomyolysis and Equine polysaccharide storage myopathy -- major conditions of concern, needs material on more recent research, needs footnotes, needs explanations/cross links/possibly merge. Definitely needs sources. Equine conformation -- revision in a sandbox, but not real active, drop a note at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Equine if you want to help Equine massage Horse anatomy - needs cleanup Der Lowe Horse racing, see also Thoroughbred horse race and harness racing. Also does not appear to be an article on Quarter Horse racing, and nothing at all on other breeds that race, such as Paints, Appys and Arabians. (and probably other breeds worldwide) Working cow horse - General cleanup Need Images Many of the breed articles lack images. The ones tagged with a request are listed at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of horse breeds and Category:Wikipedia requested photographs of equestrians. Orphaned articles in Equine

• 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 {{equine}} template to bottom of ARTICLE pages, as seen at the bottom of this page
  • Add the template {{WikiProject Equine|class=|importance=}} to TALK pages.
    • Add {{WikiProject Equine|breeds=yes|class=|importance=}} or {{WikiProject Equine|training=yes|class=|importance=}} to TALK pages of articles with the respective focuses of horse breeds or horse training.

Our new and improved project template looks like this:

Equine Unassessed

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Equine, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of articles relating to horses, asses, zebras, hybrids, equine health, equine sports, etc. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at the barn.EquineWikipedia:WikiProject EquineTemplate:WikiProject Equineequine articles ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

If an article needs to be cross-linked to the Horse racing project, here is their template: {{WikiProject Horse racing|class=|importance=}} It looks like this:

Horse racing Unassessed

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Horse racing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Horse racing on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Horse racingWikipedia:WikiProject Horse racingTemplate:WikiProject Horse racingHorse racing articles ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

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: {{equine}} – 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: {{equine coat color}} – 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: {{Template:Horse equipment}} For all tack and equipment articles, and those related to tack and equipment (new).

Stub tags

• {{horse-stub}}
• {{equestrian-bio-stub}}
• {{horseracing-stub}}
• {{horseracing-race-stub}}
• {{Racehorse-stub}}
• {{horseracing-venue-stub}}
• {{horseracing-bio-stub}}
• {{US-horseracing-bio-stub}}

• If you have any suggestions, put them on the talk page.
• Please feel free to add this userbox to your userpage:{{User WikiProject Equine}}:

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
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