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A fact from Utter (horse) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 18 June 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Utter served as a Stockholm police horse for more than 23 years, participating in 515 changings of the Royal Guards?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2024/June. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Utter (horse).

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Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 13:16, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the police horse Utter served with the Stockholm police for over 23 years, participating in 515 changings of the Royal Guards?

Source: "Utter köptes av Stockholmspolisen 1978 [...] I september 2002 pensionerades han från polisen" Dagens Nyheter 2005-04-14. p. 19

"Utter eskorterade 515 högvakter" Barometern OT 2021-11-01 [1]

- Reviewed:

Created by AlexandraAVX (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.

AlexandraAVX (talk) 20:12, 15 May 2024 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: None required.

Overall:

My first one in a while. Looks good as far as I can tell, though I can't access most of the cited newspaper articles to fully confirm (looks like they exist but are in print/paywalled). I just published an edit to the article for some light clean-up but it shouldn't affect this nomination. AdoTang (talk) 03:00, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gender guideline?

Is there some Wikipedia guideline for when to refer to horses as he/she, rather than it? The latter seems more natural to me, unless I'm personally close to the individual animal in some way. If this has been discussed and settled then I'll defer to that. Renerpho (talk) 03:27, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not that I can find. All the sources use 'he' for the horse, but they are Swedish. Featured Articles like Secretariat and Easy Jet also use gendered pronouns for their subjects at least. AlexandraAVX (talk) 07:17, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]