Talk:Suzuka Mambo

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A fact from Suzuka Mambo appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 28 November 2016 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Suzuka Mambo was a Japanese race horse sired by the American 1989 Kentucky Derby winner Sunday Silence?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2016/November. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Suzuka Mambo.

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I pinged User:Tigerboy1966 to take a look at this. In the meantime, definitely try to de-babelfish the grammar so it sounds more like native English. Also, format the two sources and make them into footnotes where appropriate. Montanabw^(talk) 03:16, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Montanabw! I've tried my best to de-babelize the grammar. Horsegeek^(talk) 00:37, 9 November 2016 (UTC)Horsegeek[reply]

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Profile of horse here [1]
Full pedigree here [2]
This page [3] used to have a full news archive going back to the 90's, which disappeared after a recent redesign (leaving a lot of dead links btw). Keep your eye on it as it might be restored.
A few bits and pieces here [4]
Australian report on Tenno Sho [5]

Japanese wiki isn't much help as the articles tend to be very poorly sourced comapred to English wiki.

As I'm sure you have noticed, computer translation does not work very well with Japanese to English. Tigerboy1966 07:22, 8 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for those Tigerboy1966! I have noticed indeed, it usually trnslates he to I. So annoying at times. Horsegeek^(talk) 00:36, 9 November 2016 (UTC)Horsegeek[reply]

Pinging Tigerboy1966 and Horsegeek: I went to the race record that is in English and used it to rewrite the racing history narrative. I ran some of the Japanese source through Google translate, which was almost useless, but did allow me to get the gist of what was in the Japanese sources, so I think the material they cite is verified, more or less (would be good for someone who actually understands Japanese to read the original sources, though). That said, (nod to Tigerboy) I know approximately zero about Japanese racing, so the article needs a copyedit between the source to see if some of these races are better known by the Romanic alphabet translation of their Japanese names or an English version - and link any races or tracks (nod to Horsegeek to see if you can resolve the redlinks). Rather a fun and quirky horse. Fun article. Might want to nominate it for DYK soon. (Horsegeek can without doing a review of others, because Horsegeek has fewer than 5 DYKs) Not sure of a good hook, but maybe Tigerboy can help with that. Montanabw^(talk) 06:21, 11 November 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Montanabw and Tigerboy1966! I nominated it, but I'll probably need help correcting the template. Haven't done it enough times. Template:Did you know nominations/Suzuka Mambo Horsegeek^(talk) 22:08, 11 November 2016 (UTC)Horsegeek[reply]