Talk:Albanian horse

Name of breed

User:Brunswick Dude has changed the article title, with the following edit summary: "Moved Albanian (horse) to Albanian Horse: 'Horse' is part of the title, so preferred".

I can't find any source which uses "Albanian Horse" throughout, using that as the name of the breed (in contrast to the American Quarter Horse and the handful of other breeds where "Horse" is indeed part of the breed name). On the other hand, many authoritative sources talk about "the Albanian": where they use the words "Albanian horse" it is in running text and "horse" is an ordinary noun.

As far as I can see "Albanian" is by far the dominant usage (and perhaps the only one), and I think the change was premature. Should we not revert to the previous title? Richard New Forest (talk) 09:52, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

See my move. Making it lower case should solve the problem. Keeping it without the parentheses makes it ever so much easier to link properly elsewhere. Montanabw^(talk) 06:13, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.cowboyfrank.net/fortvalley/breeds/Albanian.htm (probably a copyvio itself, from Bonnie Hendricks); and https://web.archive.org/web/20060513013704/http://www.equinekingdom.com/breeds/light_horses/albanian.htm. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and according to fair use may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:36, 4 October 2014 (UTC)

I'm OK with this, it was created and expanded years ago; the wikignoming I did in those days was usually minor and I mostly just copyedited, I didn't dig down into sources much. Your cleanup is useful. I think that Cowboyfrank site actually may have used the old Oklahoma State U web site that Hendricks basically used - Given that her book is published by the U Ok press, they must have authorized her work (U Okla press is generally pretty reliable for western history materials, actually...). Dana and I pretty much figured that Cowboy Frank wasn't much of a source once we got serious about bringing articles to GA. Montanabw^(talk) 05:41, 5 October 2014 (UTC)