Talk:Lameness (equine)

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[edit] Direction of article

Seeing as how I started this article in order to kill a bunch of redlinks and to serve as a jumping off point for further wiki-surfing, but didn't do a lot with it. I am glad to see it is now finally getting the attention it deserves (I didn't have time to do more than make a list). But now the question arises if we want to go into much detail at all here, or use this article as more of a portal to all of the other ten quadzillion articles on the various types of lameness. I don't really have a strong opinion either way, but was thinking that some structuring thoughts here would be useful. In short, shall this be primarily a "list" style with short article intro to various sections (which is allowed on wiki under limited conditions, they even have "good list" criteria) with a general overview (basically what is here now, only better done) and many links, or shall it become more of an article with lots of lists? The comparison would be list of horse breeds (mostly a list) versus horse breeding (article with dozens of spin-offs) Montanabw^(talk) 05:48, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

My feeling is that this should mainly be a list article, but that the lameness examination portion doesn't really belong anywhere else. Possible ideas for organization (especially if we start getting shivers and quittor and ruptured peroneus tertius and a million other articles) could be to group disease types by anatomical region, by disease type, or something of the sort. For now, I don't think it needs changing. But if the number of conditions grows too large, an alphabetical list may get unwieldy. If all felt that a more prose-structured (prosaic has such a bad connotation) article is the preferred form, then each general group of lameness issues could have its own paragraph with lots of links to the specific conditions.--Getwood (talk) 06:18, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Well, then so far we have consensus, then. Check Category:Horse health to see if all the lameness articles there are listed here, perhaps? I think I did go through the category when I created the article, but it may have changed since then. I know that I periodically do this with list of horse breeds (import both lists into a spreadsheet, alphabetize, and compare) to see if new stuff has popped in; the cats don't turn up on one's watchlist when new articles are added, only if the other text on the page changes, which is a minor irritation, but... Montanabw^(talk) 04:16, 21 April 2008 (UTC)