Talk:Beholder (horse)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: SchroCat (talk · contribs) 07:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

I'll pick this up and go through it shortly. - SchroCat (talk) 07:21, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

Prose

All good, with a few suggestions below:

1 Lead

• "Beholder … is an American Thoroughbred racehorse": shouldn't "Thoroughbred" be lower case?
  • See below ~-- MW

2 Background

• "no white markings bred by the Clarkland": Comma between markings and bread? (No problem if you think there isn't in AmEng
  • Fixed by WAM -- MTBW
• 'as "straightforward," explaining': per WP:LQ the comma should go outside the quote marks
  • Fixed --MTBW

3 2015

• Is "prep race" encyclopaedic? A preparatory race would be more formally correct, if its not some technical terminology
  • Changed to "preparatory" - it's about half-technical terminology, but more likely just an extremely common laziness! --MTBW

Refs

• FN1 is equineline.com; FN2 is Equibase.com: be consistent with the capitalisation
  • Fixed. --MTBW
• FN5 is a dead link
  • Tossed it, not needed anyway. Also fixed a minor thing that needed to be clarified and moved the sources out of the lede and into the body with accompanying text. does that work? --MTBW
• There are a few SHOUTY refs that should be in lower case
  • I think I got them all fixed now - check? --MTBW
• FN 28 has Racing Post, which should be italicised. The link also shows no info ("No race found")
  • Swapped refs. I think User:Tigerboy1966 has members-only access to the Racing Post... or else I can't access it from the USA. Or something. But fixed now. --MTBW
• Is it The Blood-Horse or BloodHorse.com (as in FNs 30 and 31, but in several others too)? Pick one and be consistent throughout
  • I tried to fix all to The Blood-Horse, let me know if I missed any. --MTBW
• FN45 is International Federation of Horseracing Authorities; FN46 is International Federation of Horseracing Authorities: formatting should be consistent
  • Fixed, I think. --MTBW

Coverage

• Appears to cover all the main points as far as I can see
• As far as I can tell from a non-expert position, this appears to be written from a NPOV
• References are reliable and, (apart from a couple of minor formatting issues above), are suitable, accurate and verifiable

Images

• All good: licences appear correct; alts in place

Stable

• Article appears stable, with no warring or problems either in the edit history or on the talk page

Excellent work and on hold for the moment for the minor points above to be addressed. – SchroCat (talk) 14:35, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

On the capitalization, there's a formal consensus by WP:EQUINE that yes, the proper name is 'American Thoroughbred' not 'American thoroughbred'. I've been dealing with capitalization issues lately, and the word is capitalized now, after a long, ridiculous battle. (In the horse industry, the capitalized term 'Thoroughbred' refers to the specific breed of horse, while the uncapitalized 'thoroughbred' refers to any purebred horse.) White Arabian mare (Neigh) 14:58, 6 October 2015 (UTC)White Arabian mare

WAM, our "local consensus" isn't policy on WP, don't fret about it. The breed isn't "American T/thoroughbred" in either case, it's just "T/thoroughbred." And no, we NEVER call purebred horses of other breeds "thoroughbreds"; that's actually very incorrect terminology. Montanabw^(talk) 19:18, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

@SchroCat: I'll go whichever way you want to go on the capitalization issue for the word "Thoroughbred" because it's not an edit war-worthy issue. I favor capitalization because we are talking an animal breed, an as such it is my position that we treat breed names as proper nouns, and thus capitalized. Basically, it's a technical language question, and capitalization of animal breed and species names is part of a set of capitalization "wars" that go across multiple WP animal articles and the disputes have, at times, been so nasty that they make the infobox wars look like a session of Kumbayah.  :-P Essentially, the American Jockey Club capitalizes it, (though even they have some inconsistency, see 6 of 7 uses here The UK Jockey Club also does (here), but a lot of "generic" style manuals state that one does not capitalize animal breed names (poodle, beagle, etc..) so there is a legitimate debate. Montanabw^(talk) 19:18, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

• If you're happy with the capitalisation, then run with it: as long as it's a conscious thing you've considered then I have no issue either way. - SchroCat (talk) 07:29, 7 October 2015 (UTC)

• Oh, and I also did a bit of reworking of the lede, see if the changes are OK. Montanabw^(talk) 19:46, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

• Nice work on the lead, and the article as a whole. Passes the GA criteria as far as I can see. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 07:29, 7 October 2015 (UTC)