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There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Mark Phillips#Requested move 27 March 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 07:46, 27 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

FEI World Cup articles are "stats" articles with too much detail[edit]

I've been rummaging through the articles on Template:FEI World Final and I'm finding a lot of excess information that doesn't need to be in an encyclopedia. Someone has been adding large tables of qualifying competitors, along with results tables for many of the preliminary competitions, and finally the winners (though not just the first 3 placings, often a long list of all competitors). Much of this information is a duplicate of what is available from fei.org, or some other "stats" websites. There is very little prose content; the creating wikipedian is duplicating their work from German-wiki, and their English is not very good.

What alerted me to this was a comment on a talk page asking what was meant by the strikethrough across competitor's names (no key, nothing in the content or talk page to explain it). Turns out, someone has been following the competitions and striking out competitors who had qualified, but didn't actually compete.

Why would we even list tables of qualifying competitors? Maybe list their names if they qualified (because that is an achievement, whether or not they actually compete in the finals), followed by the results of the competition. Some of the articles list huge tables keeping track of the "award points" from competition to competition. Come on, people, we don't need that level of detail in a Wikipedia article. That's what the FEI website is for. See also WP:NOTSTATS.

Here is an example of one of these articles with far more information than is necessary.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 03:47, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Horse leg protection § Merge proposal.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 04:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I've been working on old pages without sources. I wonder if anyone here could help with adding suitable refs to Ben Faerie. Thanks JMWt (talk) 12:06, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unsourced articles and content[edit]

Is there any reason why we are keeping unsourced articles? For example, I came across Sport horse today. 15 years and no citations, all original research. Why not just toss such items into the Glossary of equestrian terms or Horse type or Horse breed or anywhere but its own standalone article with zero citations? Do we really need articles like this? When do we actually follow Wikipedia policy about OR? How long is too long for OR to remain?

Enquiring minds want to know.   ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 16:29, 18 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This deletion attempt may be of interest to editors of this page. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:35, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]