Talk:Figure (horse)

This is the disscussion page for Figure, the first ever Morgan Horse. Please respect the talk page guidelines, and remember to sign your post by typing four tildes (James Potter Girl 08:04, 13 September 2007 (UTC)).

Sincerly, --James Potter Girl 08:04, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia discusion pages are not chat forums. Please respect the talk page guidelines, and remember to sign your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Montanabw^(talk) 00:35, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

Out of curiosity, why did someone say that IMDB is not an appropriate wikipedia souce? I work the reference desk at a university library, and our librarians refer people to IMDB for basic info about films all the time. Why can't wikipedia link there? Erusse estelinya (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Citations and References

Looks like the National Museum of the Morgan Horse website at http://www.morganmuseum.org/ could realistically be used as source for a fair bit of this material - would this be considerered a 'reliable source'? If so, someone with a better knowledge of adding references and citations than I have could probably do the citations and references bit quite easily. (ThatPeskyCommoner (talk) 06:49, 18 February 2011 (UTC))

For this article, I'd say a lot of it will be, the main thing is to cite to the specific URL for the page where the info is, and use something of a jaundiced eye for claims that appear to be puffery. There is sort of a 3-tiered informal standard: 1) Any source that is reasonably accurate and isn't blatently horrible can get you to B-class because, hey, it's a source. 2) to get to GA, you may want to back up any questionable sources with stuff that's more of a neutral, third party nature. (See my last GA, Sheila Varian, where I had to double up some sources because a lot of the info came from her own ranch web site -- I KNOW some of the material was previously published in magazine articles, but they didn't cite the original sources), for FA, you have to thread the needle of total anal-retentiveness (which is why I will probably never try to take the Varian article to FA unless I stumble upon a 20 year old complete collection of old Arabian magazines, complete with index!). Incidentally, if you want an example of an "OK quality and people won't jump on you" little short C-class article, see John Osborne Varian. Montanabw^(talk) 23:20, 18 February 2011 (UTC)