User talk:Zafonic

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[edit] Racehorse categories

As a contributor to racehorse articles I would appreciate you taking a look at Category_talk:Racehorses and expressing any views you have regarding Racehorse categories. - Cuddy Wifter 06:29, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris

Hello,

could you please check this article Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris, because my english is not very good. Thanks in advance. Historicair 15:18, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Just wanted to thank you for being brave enough to cover this vast subject. I notice Arc De Triomphe entry so far only covers the structure and not the coming-up race. anyway keep it up Trojan horse! Norwikian 10:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Category:Horse racing by type

You did a lot of good work on this but I wonder if the "circa" is appropriate for defining distances. I think they need to be explicit as there is a huge difference when experts and commentators anaylse races even with a difference as little as 1/16 of a mile. Also, as I'm no good at titles, could you perhaps come up with a category for races open to all horses, regardless of sex, for ages 3 & up. (See : Marlboro Cup Invitational Handicap, Canadian International Stakes, Breeders' Cup Classic etc. Thanx. Handicapper 15:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Thoroughbred horse Infobox template

Galopin has generously volunteered to help the Wikipedia:WikiProject Thoroughbred racing create an Infobox and has done a great job. Take a look at his talk page (User talk:Galopin#Template tests) for the two choices for the bottom box and those horses where I set up their box today using sample 1. Handicapper 18:10, 13 September 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Race results tables

I see where you removed the betting odds column from the table you created at Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp. There are others where page lines are doubled because of the betting column. I think this is unnecessay information and should be removed from all tables. Do you agree? Handicapper 18:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stéphane Pasquier

Hello, I have tried to translate the french wikipedia about Pasquier, but my english is quite bad and poor, so it will be cool if you can verify it on Stéphane Pasquier. Thanks in advance. Historicair 15:25, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stubs

Classification Clearly, over 90% of them are stubs. Some of them are long tables, but that does not make it a non-stub article. Per Wikipedia:Stub:

Once a stub has been properly expanded and becomes an article rather than just a stub, you or any editor may remove the stub tag from it. No administration action or formal permission is needed. Be bold in removing stub tags which are clearly no longer applicable.

The example you gave is probably reasonable as an article, but most of these don't actual merit being an article, but a list or table of information (which itself is not very long.) -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 20:16, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

What are you doing? Clearly Dubai Sheema Classic is a stub. You're deleting the stub category from articles that have a postage stamp worth of information on them and are clearly stubs. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 20:21, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jockey stats

Hi, I just wondered where you get a jockey's winner totals per season from? I'm planning on starting a number of jockeys' articles, and these stats will be very useful. Cheers, DavyJonesLocker 17:39, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for that, I don't have any of those books so my research has pretty much been confined to the internet. I've found some free stats on www.flatstats.co.uk, but they differ, sometimes quite heavily, from those found on the RacingPost site so I'm not sure how reliable they are or how they tally with yours, so for the mean time I've only used them on Richard Hughes.DavyJonesLocker 16:12, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Re: Flatstats stats different to Racing Post. Some media sites such as the Racing Post will show the stats from both all weather and turf racing combined whilst Flatstats shows seperate stats for both surfaces. Another reason is because Flatstats reports automatically exclude races for Amateur, Apprentice and Lady only riders. You need to include these in the Flatstats report if you want to see the stats for all types of races. - Flatstats.co.uk 10:57, 12 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Racehorse categories

The very substantial work you did to create the racehorse birth/death categories is appreciated by all. Handicapper 18:21, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Prix Eugene Adam

You reverted my edit: "moved Prix Eugene Adam to Prix Eugène Adam: title incorrect without the accent)". This is an English encyclopedia and in english the name Eugene has no accent and we use English names similar to the use of French names in the Wikipedia French encyclopedia such as the Epsom Derby See: Derby d'Epsom. The use of accents here causes many problems with redirects and, and all of the millions of English people search without accents (because they don't know anything about them) and like me, could not find Prix Eugène Adam. Thanx. Handicapper 18:06, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for clearing up my articles for me

Thanks for improving some of the articles which I started. I'm pleased that we have created the reference articles for racing. --Wikipediatastic 11:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

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