User talk:WebbEquine

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Horse birth dates

Thanks for adding the birth dates of specific horses. When you add a birthdate in the infobox, can you please add it and the source you're getting it from in the body of the article as well? Generally there will be a sentence like, "So and so was foaled in 2005" which could be changed to "So and so was foaled on April 3, 2005", Ref. Thanks again for your contributions! White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 22:55, 3 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, the source is supposed to go in the references section rather than the body of the article. I will go back and add to the references when I get to a regular computer. For whatever reason, my LG pad and my Smartphone have issues with adding and saving information on the reference section. However, many of the years for my edited horses are already referenced to a source. It is just that whoever originally put the date only put in the year, but did not put in the month and day (which I have filled in for many). The January 1st method of dating with horses (which ought to banned given that we would never think of using it with ourselves as humans) has created quite a bit of laziness in humans when it comes to keeping up with complete foaling dates and transferring them onto official documents. PW (talk) 08:43, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The formatted citation is the inline thing that appears as a little blue number after the fact it supports; it has to be in the body of text in order to show up completely in the references section. Sometimes people just try to put the references at the bottom instead of making them inline, but then that causes problems because you can't tell which ref supports which claim. I've written 95 articles, mainly about horses, and I try to use the complete birthdate whenever I can find it. Sometimes it just isn't there, and most of the ones I do are show horses, not racehorses, where the birthdate doesn't matter as much because shows aren't as age-restrictive as most races. I agree that the Jan. 1 method is sort of stupid, but then so is how they have cutoff dates for school to decide what grade a kid will be in; I guess it's the same kind of thing. I almost always edit off a smartphone and also have problems with sourcing sometimes. I generally copy-paste the url of the reference into the article at the end of the sentence or paragraph it supports, then run Wikipedia:ReFill on it. On a desktop computer you can just use the templates at the bottom of the edit window. White Arabian Filly ^Neigh 23:33, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Belated Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia, WebbEquine! Thank you for your contributions. I am Montanabw and I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Montanabw^(talk) 19:11, 16 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

April 2017

Welcome to Wikipedia. We welcome and appreciate your contributions, but we cannot accept original research. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. per [1], we can't go out and conduct our own original research -- we can use a farm's web site or equibase, but other than WP:OTRS permissions, we need a third-party source for our information. Montanabw^(talk) 02:56, 22 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]