User:Friesiancrazy

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[edit] Neutral artibration?

Tell you what, I am not a Friesian owner, but have been a wikipedian for a while, have sort of become the patroller of the horse articles, and have run across a number of these things before (found myself in the middle of a spat between two competing miniature horse groups, of all things; also am the cop who patrols Tennessee Walking Horse and reverts the blanking of the soring section that periodically occurs). Here's what I am going to do: I will look over the Friesian Crazy site and if I feel there is a suitable educational page that I feel is appropriate for Wikipedia, I will like it properly. If it appears to be primarily a site for people to sell horses and chat, I will delete it. I have no axe to grind on the issue one way or the other than to be a wikifairy and make nice, well-written, well-sourced articles. So hopefully, my edit can stick on this issue, and I won't change the article until I have done a solid review of the site. Montanabw^(talk) 16:58, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, results are in: I added two footnotes to material in Freisian Crazy, one from the history page and one from the "Encyclopedia." (By the way FC, may want to spell-check that encyclopedia a bit). Each is an internal page within the web site, containing no ads, with material that appears to be correct and independently verifiable (though that guy's history of the Friesian actually has some questionable claims and is a bit of a "patriotic" history, but almost all breeds have versions of "our breed saved the world" history they promote, so I'm not going to rip it too hard). However, the home page is loaded with ads, contains links to chat forums and ads, so it is my opinion that a link to the home page in the External links section would be too close to the "no commercial advertising" wikipedia policy. I'm not an admin, just another wikipedian like you, but I hope what I have done can resolve this issue and we can put this little edit war to rest. Montanabw^(talk) 17:26, 24 August 2007 (UTC)