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Thank you for helping improve Wikipedia! Bkissin (talk) 19:20, 3 June 2018 (UTC)June 2018
Speedy deletion nomination of Silas B. Mason![]()
A tag has been placed on Silas B. Mason requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a real person or group of people that does not credibly indicate how or why the subject is important or significant: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such articles may be deleted at any time. Please read more about what is generally accepted as notable. If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, then please contact the deleting administrator. reddogsix (talk) 01:34, 14 June 2018 (UTC) Durbar (horse)Thanks for your aditions to the article Durbar (horse). I am, however, going to remove the "citation needed" tag from the lede. It isnt necessary to have a reference for a statement in the lede if that statement is supported and referenced in the body of the article. In this case the section on the colt's racing career mentions that he was no match for Sardanaple and La Farina, and there is a reference from a contemporary press report. I have also expanded the "Assessment" section to effect this point. Hope this help. Tigerboy1966 21:02, 14 June 2018 (UTC) Brian MeehanHi, I've noticed you've set up a few redlinks in race articles to "Brian J. Meehan". Are you thinking of creating an article for the trainer? There is no other Brian Meehan article so no need for a middle initial, and he is generally known as Brian Meehan in any case --Bcp67 (talk) 19:37, 28 June 2018 (UTC) Thanks for the reply - I've moved the article to the simple Brian Meehan name and fixed the entry on the Meehan surname page. You might have noticed I changed the name of the jockey back to Wally Swinburn on the revision you made to the Norfolk Stakes (Great Britain). Wally Swinburn is an Irish jockey and the father of the late Walter Swinburn - their careers overlapped and in fact they both won Classic races in the 1981 season. All the best! --Bcp67 (talk) 20:27, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
TalkpagesWhen you create a new article it would be helpful if you set up Talk page as well as this links the article to the Horse racing project. I've added a few for example Talk:Riggs Handicap. Tigerboy1966 11:31, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
Clyde PhillipsThere should be no links to disambiguation pages, so now that you made Clyde Phillips a dab page, would you please follow up and fix all the incoming links? (Dabfix and Dabsolver are helpful.) Thanks. — Gorthian (talk) 20:44, 9 August 2018 (UTC)
A page you started (Wildair) has been reviewed!Thanks for creating Wildair, Stretchrunner! Wikipedia editor SkyGazer 512 just reviewed your page, and wrote this note for you:
To reply, leave a comment on SkyGazer 512's talk page. Learn more about page curation. SkyGazer 512 Oh no, what did I do this time? 18:35, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
Frank O'NeillHi. I see you've put some links in articles like Epsom Oaks and Ascot Gold Cup to Frank O'Neill (horse) which should be Frank O'Neill (jockey) or Frank O'Neill (horse racing). Easy mistake. Keep up the good work. Tigerboy1966 09:17, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
The DerbyThe Derby is not what it was and never has been. In the early 19th century, aristocratic patrons complained that the once exclusive event had been ruined by the rabble of working-class Londoners who flocked to Epsom to enjoy the carnival and had no interest in the actual racing. By the late-Victorian era, racing buffs looked back fondly on the good-old-bad-old days and lamented the fact that the day had become too respectable and dull. The success of French-bred horses (many of whom appeared some way behind the best on their side of the channel) in the 1940s and 50s was of course presented as heralding the death of the British bloodstock industry and end of the Classics as internationally significant races. Much the same had been said after the wins of Gladiateur for France in 1865 and Iroquois for America in 1881. Another thing to consider is the growth in international, all-aged, racing. When I became interested in horse racing in the late 1970s the only international race that mattered was the Arc. Intercontinental racing meant sending one or two horses over to Laurel Park for the Washington D C International. That world has gone, and winning a race for three-year-olds in June, however impressively, doesn't count for much in the grand scheme of things. If you look at British newspapers from 120 years ago "Sporting" meant Horse racing, with maybe the odd cricket or rugby result thrown in. Today there are dozens of sports and lots of other ways to spend ones leisure time. And yet... If you go to Epsom and stand by the winning post you can look up to the top of Tattenham Hill and if you have any soul in you, you will be thrilled. Your first impression will probably be, "what an absolutely insane place to build a racecourse!" and then you will realise that this is the turf that was trod by immortals for over 200 years, and that you are standing on holy ground. Tigerboy1966 22:12, 30 November 2018 (UTC) Ways to improve Jerry C. MeyerHello, Stretchrunner, Welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for creating Jerry C. Meyer! I edit here too, under the username Willsome429 and it's nice to meet you:-) I wanted to let you know that I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:-
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and prepend it with Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer. Willsome429 (say hey or see my edits!) 16:02, 21 December 2018 (UTC) Image tagging for File:Havre de Grace Racetrack 1912.jpgThanks for uploading File:Havre de Grace Racetrack 1912.jpg. You don't seem to have said where the image came from or who created it. We require this information to verify that the image is legally usable on Wikipedia, and because most image licenses require giving credit to the image's creator. To add this information, click on this link, then click the "Edit" tab at the top of the page and add the information to the image's description. If you need help, post your question on Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. For more information on using images, see the following pages: Thank you for your cooperation. --ImageTaggingBot (talk) 18:30, 14 January 2019 (UTC) Image without licenseUnspecified source/license for File:HavredeGraceRacetrack.jpg![]() Thanks for uploading File:HavredeGraceRacetrack.jpg. The image has been identified as not specifying the copyright status of the image, which is required by Wikipedia's policy on images. Even if you created the image yourself, you still need to release it so Wikipedia can use it. If you don't indicate the copyright status of the image on the image's description page, using an appropriate copyright tag, it may be deleted some time after the next seven days. If you made this image yourself, you can use copyright tags like {{PD-self}} (to release all rights), For more information on using images, see the following pages: This is an automated notice by MifterBot. For assistance on the image use policy, see Wikipedia:Media copyright questions. NOTE: Once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. --MifterBot (Talk • Contribs • Owner) 22:45, 14 January 2019 (UTC) A page you started (Edward F. Simms) has been reviewed!Thanks for creating Edward F. Simms. I have just reviewed the page, as a part of our page curation process and note that:
To reply, leave a comment here and prepend it with Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer. MainlyTwelve (talk) 14:15, 21 March 2019 (UTC) Article HelpHey there! I've noticed you've seemed to have trouble with a couple of aspects on Wikipedia, and would just like to leave a pop up saying that you can come to me with any questions you have anytime. If there's any horsey-related articles you'd like to create, for example :) Collaboration is a key aspect of Wikipedia! Salutations, Horsegeek(talk) 21:24, 19 May 2019 (UTC) A page you started (Juan Arias (horse trainer)) has been reviewed!Thanks for creating Juan Arias (horse trainer). User:Girth Summit while reveiwing this page as a part of our page curation process had the following comments:
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Disambiguation link notification for May 20An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Lexington Stakes (Belmont Park), you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Elmendorf and Middle distance (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 11:04, 20 May 2020 (UTC) I have sent you a note about a page you startedHello, Stretchrunner Thank you for creating Jabot (horse). User:North8000, while examining this page as a part of our page curation process, had the following comments:
To reply, leave a comment here and prepend it with (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.) North8000 (talk) 20:37, 23 May 2020 (UTC) ![]() You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. And hey, just an FYI that though I’ve been less active in the last couple of years, I’ve been around a long time and yes, I do know how disambiguation works. Fought (and won) a significant battle about its use in the horse projects, by the way 🙃. Montanabw(talk) 15:11, 26 May 2020 (UTC) Thoughts on consistencyThought I’d pop over to your page to share some general thoughts about some of your ideas. I’ve been on WP so long and seen so many various debates over everything from the big GMO controversy to navbox and infobox design to the endless debate about whether Phar Lap was an Aussie horse or a Kiwi horse. But it gives me some idea of how things that get so contentious that they wind up at ArbCom and subject to Discretionary Sanctions get resolved. In short, while it’s fine for there to be project guidelines, they have to be developed with an understanding of how formatting and style dovetail with things like wikidata and current best practices. (And the MOS isn’t always kept up to date on this, so there’s periodic drama even there). After a guideline is decided upon, there is also an understanding that consensus on a given article can override these guidelines. Policy is different, as that applies universally across all of WP. But that’s not what we are worried about here. The “infobox wars” are a sad example... The ultimate decision by ArbCom was that use of infoboxes was to be a case-by-case consensus (which satisfied no one). The case arose from the classical music project, which had a vocal group of members fighting to eliminate them for years, but another group in that project, and most other projects, used them extensively. At first, the opponents had a point, design was clunky, and people used to fight over things as silly as what color strip to put on top—that was resolved by a best practice was no color at all and some changes to the underlying coding. So one problem was solved, though many project infoboxes still might have color because there are too many projects and too few people who understand the coding needed to fix them across all hundreds of thousands of uses. That’s a good example of newer articles being done in the new and better style, but the old ones, which may be a majority, still have the old format, and will until someone figures out a way to make a mass bot edit that doesn’t foul up everything. And yet, there still exists the anti-infobox crowd, who is now at war with the wikidata crowd, as wikidata is linked to infoboxes. (Sigh) Anyway, my point is that you aren’t the first person to want to clean up a project’s articles and make them consistent. Many times, it’s a good idea and quite helpful. But it’s also important to seek consensus first, before you put fruitless hours into an effort that’s going to fail consensus, and even with it, to know there will always be exceptions. So long as it’s all done with good faith, it’s discussion that counts. Montanabw(talk) 18:14, 27 May 2020 (UTC)
Thinking CapI've moved the article you created on the horse to Thinking Cap. As a proper name it should be capitalised. The original soft redirect at Thinking cap has been restored. It was quite messy to sort out the histories so you will probably get a whole bunch of notifications about it being repeatedly deleted. Don't worry, it's all good now. SpinningSpark 08:57, 22 August 2020 (UTC) Your reversion on Bayakoa Stakes (Los Alamitos)From WP:DATELIST, "Chronological lists, such as timelines, should be in earliest-to-latest chronological order". Bayakoa Stakes (Los Alamitos)#Winners is in reverse chronological order. Narky Blert (talk) 11:57, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
ArbCom 2020 Elections voter messageJenny LindWhat page of the NYT did this appear on? Is there a byline? -- Ssilvers (talk) 03:18, 31 January 2021 (UTC)
Female horse trainersI see you created a category “female horse trainers” and then moved all the women into it but left all the men in the regular “horse trainers” category. Same with jockeys. You need to either create a category of “male horse trainers” and move all the men there, making the main category either fully diffused or fully non-diffused, or just put all the women back in the regular category. This is a long-standing debate over the issue of “ghettoizing” women and we need to not do this. Montanabw(talk) 06:37, 8 February 2021 (UTC) reply @Montanabw: However, Jockeys? - no, I only created Category:American female horse trainers because this same thing has been here on Wikipedia for ten years. Note there is the base category with Australian, British, Irish, and Canadian. Suggest typing just these three words in the Wikipedia search bar: Category:American female -- and look at the search's drop-down list that appears with its large number of female category segregations. I actually believe that the categories designating Female jockeys & Female trainers is good for now. In 10-20 years (I do hope sooner, although I doubt it will) they should be merged. But, today it is important to "highlight" them as their numbers are so small. Time for everyone, everywhere, to look and learn. IMHO, whenever someone clicks on one of the female only categories they will see the very low numbers and might 1) read more of the articles and perhaps then be motivated to 2) do a little research and learn there are plenty more female articles still to be done (we don't even have one on the very first female trainer in the U.S.) then hopefully 3) get involved and create new one(s).
An aside. It's likely that nobody has noticed, but when I create, update, or just edit a horse race table, if possible I do my best to find and replace Owner: "Mrs. John Doe" with showing only HER name. It's very hard to find a female first name but if one gets lucky and does, it can take many hours. Stretchrunner (talk) 00:06, 11 February 2021 (UTC)
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Given there are so many other "women" catagories, maybe with the "Female Jockey" already existing we should leave the "trainer" category for now and at some point soon place it all on the Project discussion board as potential input on the overall discussion (by a heckuvalot more "Members") of "female" category segregation. Stretchrunner (talk) 18:35, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
Disambiguation link notification for March 13An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Breeders' Stakes, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Robert Landry. (Opt-out instructions.) --DPL bot (talk) 06:25, 13 March 2021 (UTC) Ways to improve Eclipse Stakes (Morris Park)Hello, Stretchrunner, Thank you for creating Eclipse Stakes (Morris Park). I have tagged the page as having some issues to fix, as a part of our page curation process and note that:
The tags can be removed by you or another editor once the issues they mention are addressed. If you have questions, leave a comment here and begin it with Delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer. JW 1961 Talk 21:07, 21 March 2021 (UTC) Pedigree neededNoticed you added sire line to El Rio Rey, but that article desperately needs his pedigree. Could you pop that in too? Montanabw(talk) 18:40, 29 March 2021 (UTC) Charles BoyleThe other edit is trying some edits carefully. Also, do not create the category for a Woodstock, Ontario title. Do not revert it back please go with the People from Woodstock, Ontario category that is already existed. Do you understand? 2605:8D80:442:5AC7:2D3B:21C1:FC1:4C70 (talk) 20:33, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
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