# Talk:Lipizzan

This article may be interesting:
http://www.sloveniatimes.com/austria-backtracks-on-its-claim-to-lipizzan-horse
--213.143.93.199 (talk) 22:12, 14 September 2015 (UTC)

I wonder if anyone has access to this, which might provide a more balanced view than a Slovenian source:  http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/world/europe/article4481123.ece  Montanabw(talk) 23:58, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
"A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." 104.153.230.33 (talk) 20:13, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
Slovenia and Austria came to an agreement about the breed last year, at least as far as UNESCO is concerned: http://www.sloveniatimes.com/slovenia-austria-join-forces-for-unesco-listing-of-lipizzan-horses 84.52.172.213 (talk) 15:20, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

And “The initiative will also include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Slovakia.” thanks for the update.  Good to know. Montanabw(talk) 22:21, 22 July 2020 (UTC)
Indeed. Let's stop treating this as a competition and realize that this isn't, or at least shouldn't be, a political issue. There's absolutely no need to marginalize Lipica simply because it happens to be in Slovenia, just as there is no need to marginalize any other country. Austria and Slovenia enjoy great relations; let's carry on that spirit on Wikipedia. Agreed, Montanabw? 84.52.172.213 (talk) 13:48, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
And there is no need to mention it in every paragraph, either.  Balance and weight.  The breed is Habsburg in origin, there were multiple farms that produced the horses, of which the one at Lipizza/Lipica provided the name that stuck. But now it looks like seven nations now lay claim to the breed, so it's all about due and undue weight. Montanabw(talk) 05:56, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
Multiple stud farms did eventually breed Lipizzaners, but the breed itself originated in Lipica/Lipizza (where Spanish horses were bred with breeds native to the Karst Plateau), so it's not like the name of one random stud farm was chosen by chance when the breed was named. Also, if you read the article above, you'll see that the recent initiative above is not about "laying claim to the breed" (as Austria attempted to do several years ago) but countries with modern-day Lipizzan-breeding stud farms working together to promote and protect the breed in the spirit of international cooperation. As for "undue weight," I think your concern is misplaced, since Slovenia tends to be mentioned in the article only in passing (or when long lists of countries are given). Other countries are mentioned much more prominently in other Wikipedia articles about animal breeds, so I don't see where your concern comes from. But do what you feel is right. 84.52.172.213 (talk) 22:40, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
What is needed are reliable sources on the various stud farms and discussing the contributions of each. Articles about each one would be nice, also (an unrelated example is Marbach Stud). Montanabw(talk) 07:17, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

My edit was reverted by User:Ealdgyth for "unclear reliability". I disagree - the cited sources are a Federal Stud Piber document from the website of the LIF, and a letter from a relevant EU official. The current citation for LIF being the "international governing body" of Lippizans is from the LIF themselves, which violates WP:PRIMARY. I have restored the paragraph.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:44B8:111E:4400:1CE:8189:11FF:5C43 (talk) 09:01, 3 February 2021 (UTC) 

Sorry, but this is just another round in the drama between Austria and Slovenia. The news article doesn’t support the content added, the squarespace link is to a really poor OCR, and the Piber letter is redundant to other content. If you’ve got something clearer, it can be discussed if the relevant section can be updated, but for now, no.  Montanabw(talk) 06:18, 8 February 2021 (UTC)

I'm not about to get involved in any specific edit dispute here, but it just blew my mind that after a recent edit, the fact that the user had "Slovenicus" in their user name was used to diminish their credibility. (The full text of the edit was as follows: "An addition by an account named 'viator slovenicus' shoving in more Slovenian details into the lead... none of this is needed.... merely pushing Slovenian nationalism.") Where's the presumption of good faith? Wikipedia users often have their locations as part of their user names, but I've never seen that used against them--until today. Accusations of anti-Slovenian bias have been made in connection with this article before, and this is not a good way to lay those concerns to rest. Revert the edit if you need to, but let's cool it down with the accusations of "nationalism," which never seem to be leveled against, say, Austrians, despite their history of trying to claim ownership of the breed.--31.15.238.217 (talk) 23:51, 29 November 2021 (UTC)

The edit summary may have been unfortunate, but the problem of Nationalism pushing has been at least a decade-and-a-half long problem on Wikipedia.  The breed developed in the Habsburg Empire, which encompassed  multiple modern nations, and those national borders have shifted several times since as well. (Lipica, for example, was once part of Italy…). All of this has lead to much unnecessary drama, and if memory serves, out in the real world there even was an EU lawsuit—that Solvenia lost. The breed can be claimed by multiple modern nations that once hosted breeding farms (Hungary also has a claim), so the best approach is discussing the big picture.  Sad to say, Individuals claiming Slovenian background have been the most aggressive about POV pushing and in doing so attempt to make claims of sole “ownership” or origin that simply are not supportable. The Austrian farms and the SRS simply get more weight because their programs are the best-known. Montanabw(talk) 08:16, 30 November 2021 (UTC)

Whoever keeps adding text that Lipica was a part of Austria-Hungary when the breed was developed, in the 15th and the 16th centuries, should go out and buy a European history book, since Austria-Hungary wasn't created until the 19th century. The claim is wildly anachronistic, yet it has been reinserted into this article several times. 104.153.228.206 (talk) 03:44, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

The breed was developed from stallions at multiple studs, not just Lipica, a place that which was shuffled between various nations over the years. The point is that the Habsburg empire facilitated the development of the breed, and there’s multiple nations today can claim a stake in its origins. Montanabw(talk) 23:13, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
Yes, but the Hapsburg Empire wasn't known as "Austria-Hungary" at the time; the Dual Monarchy wasn't created until the mid-19th century. This has nothing to do with the status of Lipica. --87.119.144.203 (talk) 15:13, 24 October 2024 (UTC)

The article Operation Cowboy" tells me [Andrews employed] "many Allied POWs, including British, New Zealanders, French, Poles and Serbs, who were freed from concentration camps in the area. Andrews also gave arms to the German soldiers of the Heer and the Luftwaffe, even if they were formally prisoners of war. He also accepted the help of a Russian anticommunist Cossack, Prince Amassov. Amassov led a small force of Cossack cavalry". German soldiers even fought the SS. Even the Russians played a small part by not interfering, according to that article. So where does it say soldiers of several nations collaborated in the rescue? Yes, it was an American operation, but isn't it misleading to say "saved by the US Army"? The word 'international' should be in there somewhere. Humpster (talk) 00:44, 26 November 2024 (UTC)

I'm wary of editing the page due to its protected status, but I would suggest adding some context about the Lipizzan being related to the Kladruber horse breed due to the National Stud at Kladruby nad Labem in the Czech Republic being mentioned several times in the Lipizzan page. The Lipizzan is also mentioned on the Kladruber page, but the Kladruber isn't mentioned on the Lipizzan page: "Maestoso (1773) and Favory (1779): born in Kladruby, became two of the six founding Lipizzan stallion lineages. Favory returned to Kladruby after World War II, to add new blood to the decimated herd." Obversa (talk) 17:09, 19 April 2025 (UTC)

@Obversa: I reverted your edit because the sources say no such thing. European studs are historical institutions that bred horses for military, agriculture, racing, carriage, and other uses of horses, and often bred multiple breeds. You should not assume that all horses owned by or bred at the Kladrub stud were horses of the Kladruber breed or their ancestors or their decendants. Your persistent WP:OR additions to horse breed articles linking all breeds together, across all time—collapsing breed differences into a single genetic slurry and erasing distinctions—is misinformation and is disruptive of the project. Please stop.    ▶ I am Grorp ◀  18:42, 20 April 2025 (UTC)
It is also important to remember that WP:NOR and WP:RS.  Wikipedia is not a place for pet theories. Montanabw(talk) 16:40, 30 April 2025 (UTC)