User talk:Appaloosas
More projects?[edit]
If you are interested, the articles Arappaloosa and Colorado Ranger need serious help. Being breeds related to the Appy, thought you might like knowing they are out there. Montanabw 22:19, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
HELP![edit]
Say, can you weigh in on the question of gaited horses with spots? We have three or four different crossbreds that all want breed articles, including Walkaloosa, Tiger horse and a couple others that have been deleted because they appear to be one person's breeding operation that started a "registry" for PR purposes. What's your take on these things? Are they "breeds" (in the way that the "Nez Perce Horse" is sort of a breed, I suppose) or are they crossbred mutts? Montanabw(talk) 06:16, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
Photos?[edit]
Hi, Basically, be sure to also thank User:DanaBoomer and User:Ealdgyth, who did a bunch of work to get the Appaloosa article to GA status, only the fifth horse article to be so classified! (Hooray!). I must confess that most of the time I edit wikipedia, I am on a S-L-O-W dialup (can't get DSL or Broadband for some reason, even though I'm not even 10 miles from town -- wrong direction, I guess) so anyway, going through photos is a really slow process. So anyway, I guess my thinking is that there are two needs: One is for an image of the stiped hooves, a close up shot just of the feet. There also is not one single photo of an Appy under saddle (other than the varnish roan in the parade and the Seminole's mascot), so maybe one nice show-looking animal in performance (groomed and all!) for the "Uses" section might be good. One thing you could do is put 3-4 nice photos into the talk page as a mini-gallery and add comments as to where you think could be added to illustrate specific points in the text. There is always a danger of making an article too bloated with photos, though, so care is needed.
Another idea I have had is to do a branch off from the leopard (pattern) article on the Lp gene in Apps, with photos that illustrate each of the pattern variations (not enough room in the main appy article to do it without looking weird, format-wise). Too bad the photos of the spotted horses in those paleolithic caves are copyrighted, you don't happen to know of any public domain images of spots in way back antiquity, do you?? (The earliest image in the article is, I think, 17th century, pretty recent, really...)
Anyway, like I say, maybe put up some on the talk page using that "gallery" tag ( Starts and ends <gallery> Photos </gallery> and if we can figure out where to put them to keep the article balanced and such, that would be ideal. Montanabw(talk) 06:41, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
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Today's featured article is Appaloosa. Thanks for supplying File:THIEL 619.jpg the main image. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 13:51, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
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