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Sourcing is a little sporadic in this article. Some sections are skimpy on citations, and the last two paragraphs have no citations at all. Citations to book sources should include a page number. Much of the material in this article has a source somewhere because I read a bunch of them and saw most of those concepts, but not being a native French speaker I find it hard to pinpoint specifically where the author of this content got their information. Obversa, can you go through some of those books and find page numbers, and add more citations throughout the article? ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 01:32, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Grorp, as we have discussed before, you are more than welcome to add content to articles yourself. It's a lot of hard work for one person to double-check every source, and help would be welcome. It often takes me a few to several days to translate sources from French to English and add edits and corrections. I would ask that you please be more patient and understanding towards editors who are currently working on writing and editing an entirely new page, as the former page was barely a stub. Please see Wikipedia:Don't bludgeon the process (i.e. try not to nitpick the process too much, unless you want to edit the page yourself). Wikipedia editors are unpaid volunteers who work on expanding pages in their own free time outside of work and other life obligations. Your understanding is appreciated. Obversa (talk) 23:26, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Adding to this: I feel that you absolutely mangled the original page and edits I was working on, so after examining the mess of a page that you left me to deal with because you personally disagreed with my writing and citations, I decline to make any further edits. The rest is up to you to complete. Obversa (talk) 23:35, 29 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
@Obversa: Mangled? I changed one sentence ("A horse of medium size, Leclerc wrote in the 1700s that the best French saddle horses came from Limousin and were quite similar to the Barb horse"), one spelling error (lead→led), moved the photograph to the top, and deleted the last sentence (was false). Most of what you see in the diffs is that I updated most of the citations by including missing information such as authors, title translations, and links to online copies of books (to perform verifications on the content), and added page numbers when I was able to locate them. I moved the code of all the citations to the bottom, but they're all still there (no additions or deletions). If you compare the text of your version to my version, very little content was changed. I tagged for page numbers those portions I was not able to find in all the French. Tagging them wasn't to denigrate you, but to mark which citations still needed page numbers. I was hoping you were a native French speaker and could find those page numbers that I wasn't able to locate. Other than that, the article is substantially the same as you left it. ▶ I am Grorp ◀ 05:04, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]
