Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine

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Helps organise child projects yes
Has goals Yes
Assessment Yes

Welcome to Wikiproject Equine, a common forum for discussing equine-related editing issues and guidelines. Join the discussion.

Contents

[edit] Overview

The goal of the project is to create, improve and organize the best info on equidae and equine-related topics, to remove and patrol vandalism, and address all aspects of equidae, equine care, etc.

  • All participants and supporters should feel free to place their name on the participants list below and add the following userbox to their user pages with {{User WikiProject Equine}}:
This user is a member of WikiProject Equine.


[edit] Assessment

Equine
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1 2
A 1 1 2
Good article GA 1 2 2 1 6
B 3 9 35 25 72
Start 1 14 91 663 769
Stub 2 17 884 903
List 3 4 7
Assessed 5 29 149 1578 1761
Total 5 29 149 1578 1761

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine/Assessment for full details.

[edit] Task forces

  • Horse breeds - aims to provide a full description of the various horse breeds. The task force provides guidelines for a consistent outline format, elements to include, and tasks needed to be completed.
  • Horse training - methods of training horses, and all the related aspects of the relationship between people and horses.

[edit] Parentage

WikiProject Biology
WikiProject Tree of Life
WikiProject Animals
WikiProject Mammals
Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine
WikiProject Agriculture
Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Goals

Many horse articles are tagged for having no references or inadequate references. There are also many stubs. Thus, improving the verifiability of articles is important.

There are over 1500 horse articles in Wikipedia, but no one can find them unless navigability improves. Thus, one of the goals of this project is to improve organization by use of wikilinking, categorization, use of "see also" sections

  • Organize categories and place articles within appropriate categories, improve overall navigability between related articles
  • Cleanup and streamline categories, propose excess categories for deletion, add new ones where needed
  • Add Equidae and WPEQ templates to all articles

Finally, many articles have assorted cleanup tags on them. Some of the major problems include an unencyclopedic tone due to one or more of the following:

  • Peacock terms, everywhere, especially things that sound like they came straight from ad copy.
  • Neutral Point of View problems. Remember WP:SOAP
  • Lack of sources. See CITE
  • Disorganization and its companion, redundancy.
  • No photos or inadequate photos. It is difficult to find free images, particularly of specialized items or activities. Active participants are urged to either shoot original photos or search free image sites (see WP:IMAGES for ideas) for photos. Upload to Wikimedia Commons if a free image, or use an appropriate Fair Use rationale for those that are not.

[edit] To do list

  • Invite active contributers to officially join the project
  • Tag articles with appropriate tags for wikifying, cleanup, stubs, etc. Better yet, edit the article to eliminate these problems!
  • Create appropriate merge proposals and redirects for multiple articles found on essentially the same topic
  • Patrol and remove vandalism in articles. Request semi-protection as appropriate. (Horse and Pony are permanently semi-protected due to near-constant vandalism)
  • Use the task force on horse breeds to add additional articles on horse breeds as listed in that project's to do section. (See also list of horse breeds, which has hidden text placeholders for articles that need to be created.)
  • Upload more images to Wikimedia commons and to appropriate articles. Also organize images for easier access in commons
  • Place WikiProject tags on talk pages to draw additional members and to allow fast linking to project page, improve navigation, and all the other good things that proper tags can provide.
    • Add template {{equidae}} template to bottom of ARTICLE pages, as seen at the bottom of this page
    • Add the template {{WPEQ|class=|importance=}} to TALK pages.
      • Add {{WPEQ|breeds=yes|class=|importance=}} or {{WPEQ|training=yes|class=|importance=}} to TALK pages of articles with the respective focuses of horse breeds or horse training.

Our new and improved project template looks like this:

WikiProject Equine This article is within the scope of WikiProject Equine, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of articles relating to horses, asses, zebras, hybrids, equine health, equine sports, etc. Please visit the project page for details or ask questions at the barn.
NA This page has been rated as NA-Class on the quality assessment scale
NA This article has been rated as NA-importance on the importance assessment scale

[edit] Featured Article and Good Article candidates

Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine/Featured and Good articles

[edit] Articles Needing Cleanup/Expansion

Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine/Articles Needing Cleanup - This is a listing of articles, created by project members, generally with no cleanup tags, that are important to the project and need significant cleanup work.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine/Cleanup listing - This is a page generated by an outside user of all pages tagged with cleanup tags that also have the WPEQ tag on the talk page.

Category:Horse stubs - Many of the horse stub articles.

Category:Equestrian biography stubs - Stub article on riders.

[edit] Other templates

[edit] Requested articles

If possible, create articles for the following:

  • Gobi Kulan or Dziggetai
  • Turkmenian Kulan
  • Selous' zebra
  • Chapman's Zebra
  • Crawshay's Zebra
  • Pikes Peak or Bust Rodeo

[edit] Participants

  • If you have any suggestions, put them on the talk page.


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