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Merge proposal discussion "American White and American Creme Horse Registry" to "White Horse Ranch (Naper, Nebraska)"

You are invited to join a merge discussion at Talk:White Horse Ranch (Naper, Nebraska). ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 01:44, 27 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The registration may have fizzled out, but people are still breeding American White horses that originated from Caleb Thompson's stock. As such, I am hesitant to remove the American White and American Creme Horse Registry page completely. I can try and put some work into improving the page instead. Miscellaneous edits (talk) 05:20, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, I have 1961 copy of the Western Horseman with a section on "The American Albino" sitting on my desk and staring at me... Miscellaneous edits (talk) 05:24, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

- moved my comments to the discussion merge.

Miscellaneous edits (talk) 05:26, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Strawberry Roan merger with Roan

You are invited to join a merge discussion at Strawberry roan. Miscellaneous edits (talk) 05:17, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Link to discussion: Talk:Strawberry roan § Merge Proposal. ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 06:03, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lists of horse-drawn vehicles

I'm interested in input on this. There's a list of horse-drawn carts in the Cart article, and several very long lists in Horse-drawn vehicles (HDV). I'm thinking we should make HDV the master list for all vehicles. We could split the section on "Passenger vehicles" into two-wheel and four-wheel, and then use {{Excerpt}} to dynamically copy the two-wheeled passenger vehicles into Cart § Horse-drawn carts. We could do the same for "Load carrying vehicles".

Does anyone have any thoughts on how best to organize and present the information? Pinging Avocado. ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 02:46, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Could the contents/structure of {{Horse-drawn carriages}} be a starting point for thinking about it?

We could also consider a list article instead of listing everything within each article. -- Avocado (talk) 03:34, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

HDV already is a list-article, whether it's formally tagged as one, or titled as one, or neither.

We could use the {{Horse-drawn carriages}} template at least as a guide to ensuring each one is entered into HDV somewhere. (Note: Navigation templates do not show on mobile devices, so 50% of readers will never see that navbar.) For inclusion in the lists, I would expect each entry to start with a bluelink, even if it's a redirect into another article. Redlinks might be okay if we are planning on making at least a stub or redirect-to-a-paragraph in the near future.

I decided to nix the idea of using {{Excerpt}}. Coach (carriage) already has a section explaining types and some names, so it doesn't need a separate section to excerpt from HDV. Carriage doesn't have a list of vehicles, and probably doesn't need one; it already has a list of carriage museums, which probably should be split out to its own list-article. Wagon is already split into type groupings, so it won't need an excerpt. For Cart, I suggest we select a few representative items to list, add a {{see also}} to the HDV section, and leave the bulk in HDV.

I moved some things around in HDV that helped clarify for me the organization of the article. I think we should make the two current subsections into four, which might look like:

Passenger vehicles
- Two‑wheeled
- Four‑wheeled
Load‑carrying vehicles
- Two‑wheeled
- Four‑wheeled

Vehicles that come in both two and four wheeled versions can be in both lists (there are only a few anyway). Travois aren't vehicles and should be moved to 'other'. Sleighs are vehicles.

What do you think? ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 05:44, 20 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Women in Red year-long focus on women in sport

Throughout the whole of 2026, Women in red is focusing on women in sport. This provides opportunities for creating biographies of notable women in a wide variety of sports, including equestrianism. If you are not already a member of Women in Red, feel free to join up under "New registrations" here.--Ipigott (talk) 10:08, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]