Talk:Bucking

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 4 September 2019 and 27 November 2019. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Acp741.

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• "It developed in the wild for the purpose of protection from feline predators such as mountain lions, who would attack horses by dropping onto their backs from above".

Horses come from the "Old World". Puma concolor is an American species. So the evolution of horses had nothing to do with mountain lions aka cougars, right? 62.216.112.195 (talk) 22:35, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

• • Horses existed in the New World for millions of years until about 10,000 BC. That's not long enough ago to evolve very much. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 12:14, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

• Why on a page on bucking, is the picture shown that of a horse rearing? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.172.169.15 (talk) 23:13, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

• This article is terrible, but what first stood out to me was that all horses are referred to as "he". Female horses don't buck?

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Improvements to the article

The lead was reworded and new information was added, along with citations. The first paragraph about reasons for bucking was reworded and new, relevant information along with citations were added. New information and rewording was induced in the Solutions paragraph. Citations were also added to this paragraph. The last paragraph on consequences was removed due to a lack of support from other sources. It was also slightly opinion based and I was not able to find literature to support it.

Rewording, new up to date information, along with citations were the 3 main things I added to the article. Acp741 (talk) 16:25, 17 November 2019 (UTC)acp741

Thank you for your efforts. I had to do some reworking; the course material added was quite helpful, and thank you. That said, it’s better to just add citations rather than risk copyvio problems by close paraphrasing of sources. Also, the article uses US English, there were some grammatical fixes needed, and remember to put periods BEFORE citations, not after. The unsourced content can be cited later and has been restored. There’s a lot of oral knowledge in the horse world, a written source will eventually be found if this article were to be polished for GA. Montanabw^(talk) 22:32, 7 December 2019 (UTC)