Wikipedia Week April 05/10

The two questions we were asked to comment on are as follows:

1) How easy or difficult was it to find articles that needed editing? Were the errors you found factual or grammar spelling?

or

2) Were you able to find a topic obscure enough that Wikipedia doesn't cover it? If so, congratulations! If you managed to publish an article, comment on the process.

I chose to answer the first question. I didn't log into Wikipedia. Most of the general information about horses in Wikipedia is so well documented that it didn't make sense to try to add more. So I deliberately picked a less known breed of horse from Siberia called the Yakut Horse. Yesterday I edited the Varieties and characteristics section. The information I added to the entry was word for word from the book "International Encyclopedia of Horse Breeds" Bonnie Hendricks(1995). Her book is listed as the 4th reference under this breed as well as many other horse breeds listed on Wikipedia.

Last night I checked on Wikipedia to see if there had been any response because they themselves have designated this breed as low importance. They did respond in a big way. First of all they deleted what I had put in and then added the opinion "Maybe, but not in Hendricks, don't add where it changes citation" in the Revision history of Yakutian horse.

So it appears that it isn't as easy to have information remain there on Wikipedia. This shows that it is being watched. I haven't decided whether I will go in again and challenge them to actually read page 443 of Bonnie Hendrick's book. Wikipedia's list of horse breeds is quite limited so far. Just to add all the horse breeds from Bonnie Hendrick's book would be a daunting task. So I would go to a book store and get a horse breed book and know more about most of the breeds in the world. There are approximately 375 known breeds.