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Non-free Image sizes

It varies, but in general you should NOT upload any image of non-free content larger than standard definition PAL/NTSC res (or say 640x480). Sfan00 IMG (talk) 10:57, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

Happy Montanabw's Day!

User:Montanabw has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian, and therefore, I've officially declared today as Montanabw's day! For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian, enjoy being the Star of the day, dear Montanabw! Peace, Rlevse 01:39, 13 January 2010 (UTC) A record of your Day will always be kept here.

For a userbox you can add to your userbox page, see User:Rlevse/Today/Happy Me Day! and my own userpage for a sample of how to use it. — Rlevse • Talk • 01:39, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Awww, gee! That was really super nice! Thank you! Montanabw 04:47, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

Greetings from a sockpuppet

And per Lar's talk page comment, I guess I'm one of his talk page stalkers. Rather fitting lulz, given my history. Fear not, word on the street is that you're cool beans, so you've no need to worry about me.

Anyway, I saw that dialogue and dipped an oar into that article. I know boo about horses and their ailments, however. I've got the page watched and will help out as I can.

—Sincerely, Street-Legal Sockpuppet Jack Merridewthis user is a sock puppet 03:42, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Re: Colitis-X

Thanks for the note. I have no idea about your history with Una and respect whatever you feel about that. I would just say that my interaction with her was quite positive, not in terms of (dis)agreement but in terms of improving wikipedia. That is what I felt about this story - that there were good faith (but perhaps clumsy) attempts to improve the article. We all make mistakes; I often get remarks on my blunders in materials science articles and am only glad when someone points me to them, not to mention if he/she patiently explains my wrongs :-). Cheers. Materialscientist (talk) 06:35, 17 January 2010 (UTC)

You're going to want to get ahold of...

This article:

• Olsen, Sandra L. (2006). "Early Horse Domestication: Weighing the Evidence". In Olsen, Sandral L., Susan Grant, Alice M. Choyke, Laszlo Bartosiewics (ed.). Horses and Humans: The Evolution of Human-Equine Relationships. British Archaelogical Reports International Series 1560. Oxford, UK: Archaeopress. ISBN 1-84171-990-0. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Text "pages81-113" ignored (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)

Ealdgyth - Talk 01:15, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Can it be located on a paid database or only in hardcopy? You are correct, sounds like I do need a look-see. Montanabw 05:06, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Hardcopy only, looks like. Ealdgyth - Talk 14:15, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

this also sucks...

...the fell pony article."Fells seem to have a sixth sense which alerts them to possible danger." I mean, really? Have no fear the Fell pony is here? Lol. I'm thinking about possibly dabbling in it a bit, but wanted to make sure that you or one of your cohorts didn't have some massive re-write in a sandbox somewhere.--Yohmom (talk) 21:32, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

It would be great if you could do some work on this article. We have way too many breed articles on WP that are sure the breed can jump tall buildings in a single bound, and the Fell Pony is more than representative of that. It's not in any of my sandboxes at the moment... Dana boomer (talk) 21:50, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

I dipped my toe in the water and boy was it freezing. I tried to tidy it up a bit. At least the worst bits. Pitke (talk) 22:02, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

The tidying up by Pitke did help, but what the article really needs is someone to sit down with a bunch of sources and completely re-write the entire article. Yohmom, I would love you see you do that - you did such a great job on Banker horse that I'm looking forward to seeing what you can do with another article! Dana boomer (talk) 22:05, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Rewriting? My words exactly. Too bad I'm supposed to fill up tomorrow and the day after with 16 hours of studying Chinese :P You know I'd love a chance to redo an article this sorry... Hopefully on Sunday there's still some final prettifying for me to do... Well anyways, I'm glad to hear it's not that bad now. Pitke (talk) 22:18, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Go for it! The pony breeds in general need a lot of help, especially the obscure ones. For the English breeds, User:Richard New Forest would be a good person to check the info to see if anything fails to pass the smell test as you are working. Montanabw 00:18, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Stud farm

If the introduction to a list of studs farm is written in the present tense, it should refer to present-day countries. I see that you have no problem with mentions of, say, Germany and Hungary, which did not exist as countries at the time of their studs' founding either. I'm getting very tired of your transparent anti-Slovenian agenda regarding the Lipizzan and your blatant hypocrisy. Please take your original interpretations elsewhere. Good day.--WorldWide Update (talk) 08:42, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

WorldWide Update, I have no idea why you are getting snarky at Montanabw. She's not the one who made the change that you are objecting to - it was another editor, see here. Also, please read WP:NPA - calling another editor hypocritical and accusing them of having an agenda is really uncalled for. Dana boomer (talk) 12:27, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

I really have no agenda pro-or anti-Slovenia. And Dana is correct, a different editor (one who is well-respected for vandal patrol and an understanding of WP protocols, by the way) did the edits. What I do know is that Slovenia is not the only nation in the world, and everyone gets a fair shake. National pride is fine, and in some of these newly-independent republics, understandable from a psychological viewpoint, but not in line with WP's NPOV standard. Montanabw 19:02, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Help with Tennessee Walking Horse Page and Copyrights

Feb. 2, 2009 3:35 pm

Hello Montanabw! I am new at editing on Misplaced Pages (as you most likely have seen). I have been showing walking horses for more than 10 years and heavily involved in the industry. I would really like to modernize the Misplaced Pages page for the walking horse. I now understand what photos are proper and necessary and will be adding a few new ones as well with updated information. I noticed where it was posted that some of the images had copyright problems can you explain this to me? All of the images which I have posted previously have been my own (mostly I have taken them b/c I am a equine photographer haha) Any help will be greatly appreciated! Im glad there are dedicated individuals who monitor these pages and make sure the information stays correct! Sorry if I have made any improper changes as I was still getting my footing in the editing department and understanding the HTML haha. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jlotheartist87 (talk • contribs) 21:27, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Answer on your talk page. Montanabw 22:58, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

I hope this is the proper place to respond to your message.

Thank you for the information on the copyrights, I now know what I need to do differently. I completely understand what is needed now for the images and will be preparing them over the next few days to replace the lead image, the conformation image (which needs to included the whole body) and the running walk one. We just kind of jumped at the chance to change the page a little too soon before being fully prepared, case in point deleting the soring section (which needs to be updated). There is so much negative attention and media directed at this industry and many people who are not involved competitively have very little information as to what really occurs. For example the "Big Lick" name for the gait is no longer used, it is a out dated term from the 70s.

As for Links WHOA is the walking horse owners association, is it simply not appropriate b/c they show ads along the lower left side of their site?

Thank you again for all your help, I am new to wikipedia and probably deleted a few things yesterday that i did not mean to haha. I promise we are almost over the learning curve and will treat this page with the upmost respect and dedication. I am glad that there are people like you out there for quality control! I will contact you again once I update the page for any suggestions.

Jlotheartist87 (talk) 00:46, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Fine to ask questions here, I usually answer on other people's talk pages unless there is an ongoing discussion involving several people, but that's just my personal preference. Montanabw 18:57, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Wow! Some great advice. I know first hand how... um... should I say interesting the controversial topics can be (seeing how I seem to be stuck in the middle of them at all times showing Walking Horses haha). I think its great that the soring section is on there because it is a major occurrence in our breed and needs to be acknowledged. I will try to gather as much up-to-date information I can on the topic as well as "spiffy up" the other sections you noted. I have quite a few major resources which I can pull from (breed books, articles, etc...). It will take a while to gather everything so dont think I have run off haha. Thanks again for all the great advice and help! Jlotheartist87 (talk) 05:41, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Formatting can be a bear. You can swipe ideas from our GA and FA -quality articles (Thoroughbred, Icelandic horse, Appaloosa, Arabian horse, Andalusian horse (another one with controversies), Cleveland Bay, etc...) or just plop your suggested changes on the talk page to see what we do with them. It would actually be kind of fun if we could get the TWH article up to GA quality, actually, but it has a long way to go. Montanabw 17:01, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Wikigods?

Wikigods? PDCook (talk) 01:55, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Say what? The Arbiter_★ 01:57, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Sorry for the weird message. I should have said thanks for working on the Vladimir Littauer article. I've done what I can with it. Regards, PDCook (talk) 03:03, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Tongue in cheek. The "wikigods" seem to handle WP:MOS, which always seems to change as soon as I have figured out the current standard. (So this week are we using the serial comma or not?). Hence, like the Greek pantheon (gods), appears somewhat arbitrary to mere mortals and usually not worth challenging. LOL! Montanabw 16:52, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Talkback

Wagons, carts, oxen, bullocks etc

You may be interested in discussion at Talk:Bullock cart#Carts and wagons. Regards, Richard New Forest (talk) 11:03, 15 February 2010 (UTC)

Deletions

Montanabw: IF my posts do not violate a rule, and you don't have a better replacement, don't delete them just for the sake of deleting them. If you want to discuss the purpose of my posts and your opinion as to why they shouldn't be there, please considering doing so before you arbitrarily delete things. Common courtesy.

Best,

--Ronjamin (talk) 15:08, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I don't even know what you are talking about, can you supply the diff in question? Montanabw 18:03, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Ernst Lindenbauer

http://de.wikipedia.org/Ernst_Lindenbauer

We should translate that as well! --Andreas Hausberger (talk) 17:06, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

"We" huh? (grin). Montanabw 18:15, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Have you seen the Polak translation? --Andreas Hausberger (talk) 19:12, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes, more at your talk page. Montanabw 19:47, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

Poll evil

I don't understand why you say ref made no sense? It's a book, full text on Google Books here, and being 250 years old shows that it is an "old" word. So what's the problem? Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 21:24, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

The quote you quoted did not mention the term "poll evil," and the term is not really archaic anyway, people still use it. I have no beef with showing that is also is an old term, but it's rather a point of etymology more than having to do with the condition. The ref didn't really fit the context. Montanabw 21:36, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

I didn't quote anything. That's the title, somewhat abbreviated. If you look at the link, you'll see that there's a whole chapter "On the Poll-evil". Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 21:41, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

That's the point. Cite it properly, with the link to Google and the page number, and don't put it in the intro sentence where it screws up the actual sentence, which is all cited to the cite that's already there at the end. Montanabw 21:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

From where I sit, the "point" is that you deleted a perfectly good reference twice because I didn't write it the way you like, and then tell me it's "my job" to do it to your satisfaction. We obviously have different views about how to collaborate. I'm done with this debate and this article. Have fun with it. Kenilworth Terrace (talk) 22:01, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

You fixed the concerns I raised, but without page number and other proper citation, no one could find the cite, so I still had to do some of your work to fix the citation. Montanabw 22:26, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Heavy horse (disambiguation)

I have nominated Heavy horse (disambiguation), an article that you created, for deletion. I do not think that this article satisfies Misplaced Pages's criteria for inclusion, and have explained why at Misplaced Pages:Articles for deletion/Heavy horse (disambiguation). Your opinions on the matter are welcome at that same discussion page; also, you are welcome to edit the article to address these concerns. Thank you for your time.

Please contact me if you're unsure why you received this message. –Grondemar 04:21, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

GA review for Lusitano

Hello, Montanabw. I have been reviewing Lusitano, and I noticed that you have made a substantial amount of contributions to the article. I thought I should contact you because I noticed several problems with the article that need to be addressed before the article can pass the review. I have noted the issues here: Talk:Lusitano/GA1. I will be watching for the articles revisions, and please feel free to ask questions or give your concerns on the talk page. --Tea with toast (talk) 23:01, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

nested parameter

|nested= is useless now. Banners are automatically nested when inside {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}. -- Magioladitis (talk) 09:45, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

OK, but there was one that got un-nested that now looks really awful, so how to fix?? Montanabw 22:13, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

Really? Talk:Beezie Madden seems ok to me. If you want it collapsed just use collapsed=yes in {{WikiProjectBannerShell}}. -- Magioladitis (talk) 01:30, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

The first time the bot went through, it wasn't, but it is now. Go figure. Computers... Montanabw 01:56, 8 March 2010 (UTC)

Flickr

If I want to upload photos from flickr what should I do? Just upload them? What about license? --Andreas Hausberger 18:49, 13 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conversano Isabella (talk • contribs)

Why is this now unsigned? Andreas Hausberger 18:54, 13 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conversano Isabella (talk • contribs)

"Signing" in wikipedia doesn't mean writing your name, it means adding four "tildes" like this: ~~~~ Which automatically inserts your user name with a time stamp of when you made the edit. Sinebot ignores everything else. Which I just forgot to do here: Montanabw 19:15, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

I never typ my name, just use the signeing button. The button says "Signature and Timestamp". --Andreas Hausberger 18:29, 16 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conversano Isabella (talk • contribs)

hmm. You must have changed the default settings to remove the wikilinks, because what happens is that your signature now has no wikilink to your user page, which is apparently that's why SineBot keeps tagging you. I noticed a month ago that your ~~~~ signature looked like this: ] (]) and formatted like this: Andreas Hausberger (talk) -- which was keeping you out of trouble with SineBot, I think. But anyway, When I hit the timestamp button, or hit the four tildes manually, it shows -~~~~ on my editing screen, and when I hit save, I get --Montanabw 18:58, 16 March 2010 (UTC), which looks something like ]^]18:58, 16 March 2010 (UTC) the next time I look at the edit window. What I did with my default settings was to add a color command and a sizing change to my existing screen name so it appears in pretty colors. You can "steal" formatting ideas from other people if you like how they sign their names...font, color, etc... Montanabw 19:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

To be honest I don't really know what to do :-| --Andreas Hausberger 15:38, 21 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conversano Isabella (talk • contribs)

I'd go into your preferences, and where the little box is that says "signature," delete whatever you put in there and if you want to have something other than the default that SineBot keeps inserting, change it to something like what you had, which was: ] (]) and then save it that way. You can test the new version here on my talk page if you want (it doesn't work so well on your own)

Appaloosa

Would you have a few minutes to add in the page numbers for the Harris book in the Appaloosa article, as well as any further tidbits that he may add? I think that's the next one I'm going to focus on for FA... Please also see the dead link in the blindness section - I did a quick search to try to find the information elsewhere, but couldn't. If you can, that's great; if not, I'll do a deeper look. Dana boomer (talk) 01:39, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

If I don't do it soon, nag me on email! The stuff on Appy blindness can probably be re-accessed via the Rolling Dog Ranch web site, I think they rearranged their site again. If the links are dead, let me know and I will email them for the research articles, we probably should link directly to pubMed or The Horse when possible anyway... Montanabw 03:49, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

Sandboxes

Please have a look on all of my sandboxes and tell me what you think http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Conversano_Isabella --Andreas Hausberger 18:27, 16 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conversano Isabella (talk • contribs)

Will do and comments will be there. Montanabw 18:58, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Great, thanks! Andreas Hausberger 19:56, 17 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conversano Isabella (talk • contribs)

Finnhorse bombed again

More stuff for you to look at when you care to :) Found a good source, or at least much more exact than Arppe (and maybe Talaskivi too). Pitke (talk) 16:54, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

—and more... Pitke (talk) 21:30, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Hermesvilla

Please have a look! http://en.wikipedia.org/User:Conversano_Isabella/Hermesvilla_-_Sandbox Andreas Hausberger 15:30, 21 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conversano Isabella (talk • contribs)

Have you seen my last edits? --Andreas Hausberger 16:01, 31 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conversano Isabella (talk • contribs)

Ill trot over and take a peek. Been offline a bit more than usual lately. Montanabw 23:22, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Re: Ekalaka Hills

The Long Pines are a separate island range from the Ekalaka Hills according to GNIS. They are not a sub range despite what they might be called locally. The Ekalaka Hills are in close proximity to Ekalaka, MT while the Long Pines are 20+ miles to the southeast and completely isolated from the Ekalaka Hills. The Short Pines are not listed in GNIS and indeed that might be a local name for the Ekalaka Hills. As such, the redirect of Long Pines to the Ekalaka Hills is inappropriate.--Mike Cline (talk) 16:51, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Indeed the Short Pines are not even in Montana, but in South Dakota in Harding County, South Dakota as confirmed by GNIS--Mike Cline (talk) 17:01, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Which is why some of this stuff is screwy. I have been in the Long and Short Pines, and I can assure you they exist on the Montana side of the border. I'll go look for a source for you. Montanabw 17:19, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Piber

Great Job! Though I would suggest to rename it to "Federal Stud Piber", don't you think so? In german it's "Bundesgestüt Piber". Another question: I talked to people from Piber about the wiki-article "Lipizzan" and the photo showing a "typical" lipizzan. On this photo is a lipizzan from Monterotondo with a rider on. It's simply an ugly photo! I asked the Piber stuff for a better one and they said yes sure. So, if I upload one of these photos to commons what about the copyrights. Federal Stud Piber holds the rights and is willing to publish on Misplaced Pages.--Andreas Hausberger 19:41, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

I agree the Lipizzan photo is not the best, only maybe the best of what we have. Unfortunately, "copyrighted but OK to use on Misplaced Pages" isn't a free license for wikimedia commons, a photo has to be basically free to anyone for anything. The easiest way to do this is to release a photo into the public domain--but doing so means that anyone can do anything with it and never pay royalties or give attribution or anything. (an example is this image: File:Dr_Cook_BB_Western.JPG). The other acceptable method is to release a photo under the GDFL and CC licenses -- which basically say that a photographer can get credit for taking the photo, but that the image has to be free to anyone to use for anything, even for someone else to make money from. The young gray Lipizzan that illustrates Gray (horse) may be more suitable if you'd prefer that one as an interim solution. The horse is very nice, but young, without the fully white hair coat. (Personally, I got so fed up with finding photos of some things that I wanted to illustrate that I just got out my own camera and started taking amateur photos that I could own and then release any way I wanted. Example would be this image: File:SaddleUnderside.jpg.) Montanabw 00:05, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

On the second issue, German and English flip their word order a lot, while I would go with what what the official version from the facility is, in English, we always say "The XYZ stud" not "Stud XYZ" Also, at this site, the tab at the top does say "Piber Federal Stud" which is grammatically correct English. We could rename the whole article "Piber Federal Stud" so as to later make room for someone to do an article about the village of Piber, I suppose...? Montanabw 00:05, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

"Piber Federal Stud" is great and another article on Piber (the village) can be donne later.--Andreas Hausberger 07:21, 17 April 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conversano Isabella (talk • contribs)

I am mildly confused. SHould I leave the article titled "Piber" or change its name now (as opposed to later) to "Piber Federal Stud?" Oh, and by the way, the article is in the "Did you know?" queue and will have a brief mention on the main page TOMORROW! (April 18)... they change them as the day goes on, but the queue says it will go up at 1:00 pm (13:00) London time...! Montanabw 02:04, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Sweet Grass Hills

Done--Mike Cline (talk) 10:05, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Merge and Redirect from Sweetgrass Hills to Sweet Grass Hills made. Thanks good catch.--Mike Cline (talk) 22:05, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Piber DYK

OK but maybe you can sort through my old ones too :-) Victuallers (talk) 17:11, 15 April 2010 (UTC) Suggest you might like to look at here. Poor translation but Looks interesting and may provide a good hook... Oh and you search for "victu" in here ? Victuallers (talk) 17:45, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Follow up press release on the topic here. Sounds like no real threat, more of a bluff to me...sort of like threatening to close the fire department if the local mill levy doesn't pass. (LOL) Montanabw 18:30, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Re Spear Hills

Think you got this one wrong. Moorhead does indeed exist and in fact the Spear Hills are shown on the Moorhead Quad map. Moorhead as a village shows clearly on the quad. Although Brodus is indeed north of the Spear Hills, it is a long way north compared to Moorhead.--Mike Cline (talk) 22:17, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Broadus has about 600 people in it, and it's the biggest town in the county, so it's the best reference. Given the relative lack of relief (some nice badlands country down there, though) any significant elevation will be visible from many miles off. Oh, and no one in Montana says "village" either. In Powder River County, there ARE a couple wide spots in the road that might have a bar. My point is that if a community does not appear on the Montana road map, then no one is going to have any clue how to find something. It may appear on a quad, but in real life there could just be a sign on the railroad tracks by a weathered shed... Note this map, http://www.mdt.mt.gov/travinfo/docs/hwymap_cond.pdf which shows the KNOWN wide spots in the road like Olive (population zero), Biddle and Powderville. No Moorhead. Given that Broadus is about 40 miles from the Wyoming border and the Spear Hills are roughly on the border, it isn't that far--it's probably a 20 minute drive the way a person drives in that part of the state... Montanabw 22:49, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

DYK for Piber

On April 18, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Piber, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist (talk) 12:05, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Talk: Equitation Science

I am rather new to wikipedia and it is indeed difficult to find your way through it. I wonder about the comments made for equitation science: 'still sounds like advertising, still is an orphan article and still needs cleanup to wiki standards'. I dont think that this article reads like an advertisement compared to e.g. world horse welfare as it is about science and a scientific society related to it. I am happy to improve if I find out how.

EHISES (talk) 06:55, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Thanks for improving the Blunt article. Hate that tag overkill when others do it, but I guess when I do it myself I don't notice. Thanks again. Yours, Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 17:59, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Cast your vote on editing guideline at WikiProject Thoroughbred racing

There is currently an issue at Misplaced Pages talk:WikiProject Thoroughbred racing that as a member you might wish to read and vote on. Handicapper (talk) 19:31, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Request to publish image: Bosal on Horse

Hi,

I wanted to ask your permission to publish your picture of a palomino wearing a bosal for an article on bits and bridles. The article is slated for the June issue of the Northwest Horse Source, a regional all-breed magazine the covers Wash., Ore., Idaho, and parts of Western Montana and Northern Calif.

I'd like to include a photo credit if you wish to furnish that. This will be the "lead-in" picture for the article.

I am at your mercy on this one, we don't have much of an editorial budget. But I would be interested in publishing your story, if that's something you feel could benefit you. I find your work with Misplaced Pages intriguing and news worthy.

Deadline is later this week, so please let me know before Thurs., April 29.

Sincerely,

Gavin Ehringer, editor

Northwest Horse Source Magazine

If you mean this picture, you can freely use the picture (as long as you include photo credit, as is necessitated by the licence). For further reference, all images as well as other files in Wikimedia Commons (See the Bosal bridle category for example, or Playing horses) are released under a free use license, or are Public Domain - that is, free to use. No permissions need to be asked. On the other hand, some files used in the English Misplaced Pages may be used under Fair Use circumstances; therefore you should check the licence of the picture if you wish to use it in the case you found it via a Misplaced Pages article instead of from the Commons. Pitke (talk) 08:01, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Dear Gavin, Pitke is correct that it is a free image with attribution per the license on the image. If you want to use my real name and such, (which would be very fun for me!) I avoid using my real name on wikipedia, so please click on the "E-mail this user" link to the left of this page and send me a message. Montanabw 21:43, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Portal

Sorry for the slow response - I just got around to looking at the portal. Your edits all look really good - it's nice to have someone else updating it! It was a bit of a pain to set up originally, but now it's fairly easy to maintain. Dana boomer (talk) 00:48, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

You know how great the temptation is...

...to ramble on about how you should know better etc, with a few juicy excursions about how genetics goes at different levels in Paraguay and Kazakhstan and how terminology is really messed up if people from Sweden and India attempt to discuss bridle... But I'll just say this... Cremellos have pink skin, you silly thing :D Pitke (talk) 12:47, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

LOL! Technically, cremellos have "rosy" skin, not unpigmented "pink" skin -- as every cremello breeder will point out, adding that THEIR horses are not in fact at increased risk of sunburn! It's a subtle difference, though, and I should have explained myself better!  ;-). Montanabw 21:00, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Milhist and A-class

I saw that you've been bashing Milhist's A-class review system over on Horses in World War I's FAC, but I can't understand what you are talking about. Are you confusing something else with this review that only remarks on references and prose questions? Regards, —Ed (talk • majestic titan) 04:44, 28 May 2010 (UTC)