notability tagging you put a notability tag on secretariat book there are two problems with your action secretariat is one of the most notable horses in the history of american thoroughbred racing with a worldwide reputation was listed by espn at no of the greatest athletes of the th century one of three non humans on the list and the united states postal service honored secretariat with his image on a first class postage stamp with any secretariat book put out by a reputable publisher is in absolute fact worthy of an article at wikipedia you ignored the wikipedia wikiproject thoroughbred racing when in fact you should have referenced your notability concern with them worse though is that you did this twenty nine minutes after i had created the talk page with the project's tag placed there which showed up on the edit summary for new articles i will take this is an honest error because otherwise it is simply very bad manners and an abuse of editing privileges that wastes other editors' time and confuses readers