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Blazing Rate at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blazing Rate (26 December 2007 – 1 January 2008) Deleted
Chic (horse) (via WP:PROD on 2 January 2008)
Hi WikiProject Thoroughbred racing. I recently encountered {{ Infobox UK Racecourse}}. It's the only infobox I've seen where "Prev" and "Next" are used to navigate through an alphabetic list, i.e. as opposed to a chronological one. Personally, I think it would better to remove the "Prev" and "Next" fields from the infobox, and produce a separate navigation box template, similar to {{ British motor racing circuits}}, thereby enabling readers to navigate between racecourses in whichever order they choose. But it's just a suggestion. Regards. DH85868993 ( talk) 02:33, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
Before I go through the effort does anyone have any opinions about adding the American runner Effervescing to Wikipedia? He was one of the first TB horses given to D. Wayne Lukas to train and gave him a huge boost after Quarter Horse racing success. Effervescing is perhaps most noted for winning two significant graded $100k stakes races - one on grass the other on dirt - with only five days apart at Hollywood Park in 1978. Does that make the horse worthy for inclusion? -- Kellsboro Jack ( talk) 15:19, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
I'm going to start redirecting the names of the redlinked winners to their trainers if available. Once an article for the horse is created, it can replace the redirect...that way there are fewer redlinks in the Breeders Cup articles and such. If you write an article on the red link horse, feel free to undo the redirect. -- Smashville BONK! 05:28, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Silky Sullivan is a great article, and could easily reach GA or even FA-Class if a few editors cleanup the tone and add inline citations. It also needs a new lead section. Thanks. — Viriditas | Talk 14:06, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Just my 2 cents but I've enjoyed the tone of the Silky article because it wasn't so sterile. The horse converted droves and droves of people into fans - I dare say that Smarty Jones and Funny Cide while popular, failed to generate as much as Sullivan did - but that is never going to be captured in raw numbers of win, place or show. The all too rampant wiki police just itching to label articles with POV issues seemingly are running amuck. Frankly I think Secretariat's entry suffers from POV issues with that pervasive 'he's a god' like tone, but if anyone dares touch that and you'll be branded anti-Big Red.
Further, in terms of the "it isn't cited" policing as of late I have to say a lot of articles do have references at the bottom. Yet when they were created folks didn't see the need to footnote every other element in a horse entry. I'm not suggest we should allow things to be fast and loose with stats by any means but the branding of every entry having less then 5 footnotes as somehow lacking citation (and thus deemed by someone as dubious) is silly. -- Kellsboro Jack ( talk) 20:02, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Hi. I've added Category:WikiProject Thoroughbred racing and a related article category as an initial step towards assessment. If this project isn't active, I'm not sure how useful it will be, so I stopped one step short of setting it up, but it's easy to do and anyone can get the ball rolling. You've got somewhere in the neighborhood of ~2000 tagged articles, so you're going to want to use AWB or a bot to start sorting your stubs. — Viriditas | Talk 10:35, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
Chester (horse) appears to fall within this project's scope, so I thought I'd pass along the news of the article's creation. -- Sturm 23:41, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Would someone like to take a shot at creating an Infobox for horse farms? Handicapper ( talk) 14:40, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
I spent some time upgrading this list today, putting the information into a table which can be sorted in a variety of ways. I'd strongly recommend it be moved to a more appropriate title: perhaps List of British National Hunt racing's Champion Jockeys would work? It would be great to get some feedback, plus any suggestions for improvement. The biggest problem is finding reliable references. Any ideas? MeegsC | Talk 22:10, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
On Lead (leg) there is a content dispute re the relative merits of transverse and rotatory leads. Eg, cantering disunited and round gallop. See Talk:Lead (leg). -- Una Smith ( talk) 15:22, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Can someone correct the vandalism inflicted upon the Blood-Horse magazine List of the Top 100 U.S. Racehorses of the 20th Century entry? Furthermore block and/or ban the user of said changes? I'm not sure if the person understood that the list came from a publication or just wanted to voice their idiotic view of horse racing's leaders. -- Kellsboro Jack ( talk) 19:52, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
Once again the fans of Secretariat are at it again with vandalzing this list. Clearly it is intentional - so how does someone get blocked from making edits with Wikipedia? -- Kellsboro Jack ( talk) 19:31, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine has just put up Thoroughbred as a GA nomination. Thought we'd let ya'll know. Ealdgyth - Talk 19:55, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
In paragraph three of this aticle, referring to the scaricity of direct male line progengy of this horse, there is a statement that "he also bred the Byerley Turk mare, founder of Thorougbred family 1 ... " I presume this means that he sired this foundation mare, but I was reluctant to change the wording in the original article, not being sufficiently sure of my horse breeder's vocabulary. Would someone please fix this this, and then delete this post. 161.184.44.108 ( talk) 17:47, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Horses have them, as do competitors from other sports, why not jockeys? Anyone fancy having a crack at it? Grunners ( talk) 16:02, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Can I suggest we make this an important 'to-do' task? 82.20.251.131 ( talk) 14:04, 26 December 2008 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spend_A_Buck
Paragraph one lists DOD as November 24, 2002: "Spend A Buck (born 1982 in western Kentucky, died November 24, 2002 in Brazil) was an American thoroughbred race horse."
Last Paragraph lists DOD as November 24, 2000: "Spend A Buck had a very successful post-racing career standing stud, [2] siring 27 stakes winners with earnings of over $16 million. He died on November 24, 2000 at Haras Bage do Sul in Brazil, following an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin."
If someone is interested in jockeys there's an article that needs help: Michael Walker (jockey). The current article is very POV and uses un-encyclopedic language. It appears to be all original research and no sources are listed. ·:· Will Beback ·:· 21:20, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
I have noticed that a number of WikiProjects are using the bot User:AlexNewArtBot to identify possible new articles which are relevent to their particular project; see for example Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ships/New_articles. Do you think there is merit in doing something similar for Thoroughbred racing, and are there any members of this project with the necessary skills to volunteer to compile a rules set and set up a subpage for new Thoroughbred racing articles? - Cuddy Wifter ( talk) 07:53, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
Is up at WP:FAC. Ealdgyth - Talk 02:46, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I have been expanding the article on Shiraoi, Hokkaidō and came across mention of Shadai Stallion Station. I was able to add some information about the horse breeder, such as their purchase of War Emblem (for $17 million). What is missing is an article about the horse breeder itself. From what little I have found is that they are world famous, but I do not feel I am able to judge that. I was hoping that someone with a stronger interst in thoroughbred racing might take up interst in this topic and at least write a short article. Any takers? imars ( talk) 21:16, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
I noticed some horses have been given the Category:Eclipse Award winners which actually did not come into effect untuil 1971. I therefore created a simple new Category:American Champion racehorses to cover all winners prior to that date. I gave it the single name so that like the Eclipse Award category it covers all irrespective of their class. Does everyone agree? Brett Josephson ( talk) —Preceding comment was added at 18:08, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 2184 articles are assigned to this project, of which 237, or 10.9%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 14 July 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.
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Hi all -
Hope you don't mind, but I've just updated your project's template page ( Wikipedia:WikiProject Thoroughbred racing/Templates) to show all the different stub templates relating to horse racing. Only the general one was listed on the page, whereas there are separate stub templates for races, racehorses, biographies, and two new ones for venues. Grutness... wha? 07:11, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello all...
An image used in the article, specifically Image:Frankie.jpg, has a little bit of a licensing issue. The image was uploaded back when the rules around image uploading were less restrictive. It is presumed that the uploader was willing to license the picture under the GFDL license but was not clear in that regard. As such, the image, while not at risk of deletion, is likely not clearly licensed to allow for free use in any future use of this article. If anyone has an image that can replace this, or can go take one and upload it, it would be best.
You have your mission, take your camera and start clicking.-- Jordan 1972 ( talk) 00:26, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
We have Association Football templates, baseball templates and basketball templates. Does any wiki expert think he/she can come up with a racing colours template? This can then be used on pages relating to specific owners horses and templates for specific races i.e. Kentucky/Epsom Derbies, Grand National etc. If you come up with something give me a shout on my talk page as I'd love to sandbox it on a Grand National race template idea Captainbeecher ( talk) 10:59, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
The Epsom Gold Cup appears to have been an important race. Is it defunct or was the name changed? If anyone has information on this please add. Thanx. Handicapper ( talk) 14:17, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
Epsom Gold Cup was the former title of the race now known as Coronation Cup (for 4yo+ during Derby Meeting). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.42.121.109 ( talk) 11:37, 19 February 2009 (UTC)