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Lac La Croix Pony

Thoughts on whether or not their page should be "renamed" to either Lac La Croix Indigenous Pony or Ojibwe Horse and have the current "Lac La Croix Indian Pony" be one of the "also known as"?

The Ojibwe Horse Society seems to be their main society and refers to them as the Ojibwe Horse, but acknowledges the importance of the Lac La Croix First Nation in saving the breed from extinction. Canadian Encyclopedia lists them as Lac La Croix Indigenous Pony and list the Ojibwa as the peoples who originally primarily bred them historically. Ontario Parks has two videos on Youtube about them, and seems to refer to them as both the Ojibwe Horse and the Lac La Croix Indigenous Horse.

Thoughts on a name update, especially seeing as the word "Indian" is not used anymore outside of describing something from the country of India? Whatasong (talk) 20:57, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

I’d add the “also known as” comments and create a couple redirects. I tend to just explain the drama rather than creating stubs or name fights. Montanabw^(talk) 18:51, 7 March 2024 (UTC)

Strawberry roan article: Is it a fork, or just needs cleanup?

Strawberry roan is a fairly new article created by an OKA paid editor and translated from the French wiki article. It has a lot of photographs in it. I'm not sure if it's a WP:CONTENTFORK of Roan (horse) or if it needs its own article. It is not in Template:Equine coat colors, but based on that naxbox's labels I couldn't decide if it belongs there, or where it might go. Someone else who is more familiar with the horse color articles should take a look at it.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 03:59, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Mark Phillips#Requested move 27 March 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Mark Phillips#Requested move 27 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 07:46, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

FEI World Cup articles are "stats" articles with too much detail

I've been rummaging through the articles on Template:FEI World Final and I'm finding a lot of excess information that doesn't need to be in an encyclopedia. Someone has been adding large tables of qualifying competitors, along with results tables for many of the preliminary competitions, and finally the winners (though not just the first 3 placings, often a long list of all competitors). Much of this information is a duplicate of what is available from fei.org, or some other "stats" websites. There is very little prose content; the creating wikipedian is duplicating their work from German-wiki, and their English is not very good.

What alerted me to this was a comment on a talk page asking what was meant by the strikethrough across competitor's names (no key, nothing in the content or talk page to explain it). Turns out, someone has been following the competitions and striking out competitors who had qualified, but didn't actually compete.

Why would we even list tables of qualifying competitors? Maybe list their names if they qualified (because that is an achievement, whether or not they actually compete in the finals), followed by the results of the competition. Some of the articles list huge tables keeping track of the "award points" from competition to competition. Come on, people, we don't need that level of detail in a Wikipedia article. That's what the FEI website is for. See also WP:NOTSTATS.

Here is an example of one of these articles with far more information than is necessary.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 03:47, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Horse leg protection § Merge proposal

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Horse leg protection § Merge proposal.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 04:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Ben Faerie

Hello, I've been working on old pages without sources. I wonder if anyone here could help with adding suitable refs to Ben Faerie. Thanks JMWt (talk) 12:06, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Unsourced articles and content

Is there any reason why we are keeping unsourced articles? For example, I came across Sport horse today. 15 years and no citations, all original research. Why not just toss such items into the Glossary of equestrian terms or Horse type or Horse breed or anywhere but its own standalone article with zero citations? Do we really need articles like this? When do we actually follow Wikipedia policy about OR? How long is too long for OR to remain?

Enquiring minds want to know.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 16:29, 18 April 2024 (UTC)