Talk:Funny Cide

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I don't know how to talk to the person who wrote me on Feb. 7, about Man O 'War. I tried to, but it didn't work for me. I am a novice, of course. I merely wanted to say thank you for pointing there was a Man o 'War page but that it was called "Man O' War (horse)" Now I have a clean-up notice on my page, and no details. Things get confused. But I am hoping to learn. Ki

I think the reason the cleanup tag was posted is to suggest changes

• Remove language which makes judgements (I have already done a bit of editing on this one). The text should be neutral (so words like "best" or "good" etc., which make judgements should be avoided).
• Change the reference system to be numbered references (see Wikipedia:Footnotes)

but this is a great article. Many new articles get cleanup tags, and in the long run, the make for a better Wikipedia in my view. --Hansnesse 18:13, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Added footnotes. --Hansnesse 08:32, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Ah, I see. And I thank you. I admit I am enthusiatic about this horse, hence the less than objective language. I hope that is cleared away now, especially with your help. And I love learning about the proper footnote notations. Ki

The Cleanup was not related to the article itself, but it had no paragraphs, the language wasn't neutral and it was hard to read. It is not a judgement against you and in this case it was tagged so it could be cleaned up and to ask other authors to make the article more in line with the standard, because there were many little things. I removed it again, because it is not necessary anymore. Mind you many articles get tagged in the beginning and it should be better if people could discuss and change the article, but there are too many articles. Dr Debug (Talk) 17:09, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

I have tagged this article for cleanup for several reasons. The first is the opening paragraph: it's way too long, and the first sentence needs work. The second is the bolding of many horse's names (among other things) throughout, which is against WP:MS. The Sackatoga Stable section should probably be split into its own article, leaving the essentials of their aquiring of Funny on this page in the "early years" section. The section entitled "What's a gelding to do" definitely needs to be renamed (rather informal). There are quotations that need citations. Some sentences are decidedly unencyclopedic ("Funny took control from Robin Smullen, and ran perhaps too hard and too fast...way too fast"), or at least informal. --Pharaoh Hound (talk) 23:14, 16 September 2006 (UTC)