Talk:Shetland pony/Archive 1

message: The picture of the pony which I removed was not a good example of the breed. It seemed to be there just for the sake of having a picture. There are four other good photos on the page which represent the breed more than enough without this motley creature there too, shedding hair in a very unnatural way. (Nathweni 02:01, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

message: I won't argue that the pony was ungroomed and not a great example, but it is really rude to remove the lead image from the intro without replacing it with something better.  The least you could have done was to put a different photo in its place, it is typical for wikipedia articles to put at least one image at the beginning of the article.  If you know how to remove a line, you can also cut and paste.  And you can explain yourself with an edit summary.  But, I went ahead and moved up an image, it's another fuzzy pony, but the other two pony pics have their own problems as well, one is horribly distorted and the other looks like it's at a 4-H show and has pretty poor grooming, plus is out of focus.  At least the fuzzy one is appealing and well composed.  None are great images, I wish there were better ones (if you want to surf through the gazillion cc-2.0 licensed images at Flickr, by the way, it would be  job worth doing...). But anyway, it's just better form not to simply trash something out of an article without improving upon it.  OK, end of rant. Montanabw(talk) 02:36, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiquette 

message: There really is no reason for you to start dealing out insults to people who are just trying to make wiki better. I bet that is your intention too and keep doing what ever you think makes it better but please allow others to do the same without nasty retribution. Looking at your long list of changes it seems that no one else really gets much of a say. All in all, make changes and let others do the same, oh and don’t be so horrible.  Nathweni 01:33, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you really look at my long list of changes, you will find that the vast majority are reversions of vandalism or of "my pony suzie is the CUTEST PONY!" edits.  I have over 500, mostly equine, articles on my watchlist and far too much of my time is taken up fixing assorted silly edits by the kids home from school -- thus I do not intend to insult people, I just get tired and a little sharp.  But, what we have here is just a difference in taste, you might like a show pony photo, others like a fuzzy pet pony photo.  More important, there is also a long history of that pony cart photo being placed into a number of articles where it didn't belong, having captions that were self-promotional, and so putting it next to "uses" to illustrate what shetland ponies can do was an act that settled things down for awhile, hence I'd prefer not to move it.  If you REALLY want to improve the article, may I humbly suggest you surf the cc-2.0 and public domain photos at Flickr.com and see if there isn't something even better out there. I've seen some cute images but haven't had the time to surf through them. Montanabw(talk) 02:42, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmm.  Sooo, we aren't supposed to escalate the insults on wikipedia, are we?    Your obsession might simply be someone else's very enjoyable hobby.  So how about we not make inferences about the motives of others, eh?  And how about people do more actual WORK on wiki like find and upload more and better images, and not just rearrange images? Hmmm.  Maybe I WILL go off and find some better pony photos.  The day is still young, but can't ride in the dark, you know... Montanabw(talk) 03:23, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiquette Right Back at You