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Welcome

Hi! I am Montanabw, I really do live in Montana and I really do own horses—who graciously allow me to upload their images into Commons from time to time. On Wikipedia, I've been around for a while, and am glad to assist other editors as I can. In real life, I am a small-town lawyer in private practice, which explains why sometimes I am not around to answer questions quickly and other times seem to live online; my work ebbs and flows. I occasionally write about legal topics, but in general, I do enough legal writing in my work; I prefer to work on other topics here. I also write books and do other freelance writing off-wiki. I am not compensated for anything I write on Wikipedia.

I sometimes fullfill requests for photos of objects or locations in Montana, particularly for National Register of Historic Places listings in Montana. I take random images when I travel, too, so check out my contributions at Commons. I can also access documents in hardcopy at the Montana Historical Society. I choose not to use my real name on WP, but I've met a number of wikipedians off-wiki, helped facilitate some editathons in Montana, and I've been to a few WP-related events such as WikiConference North America/USA, so if you met me in real life, feel free to pop over to my talkpage and say hello!

About

 
 This user is the inaugural awardee of Master of the Horse Wikipedian of the Week
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"I want to say to everyone else, get stuffed, because women can do anything and we can beat the world."—Michelle Payne (after her win in the 2015 Melbourne Cup)[1]
 
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Neigh! This is a horse.
A horse (crowd-sourced)
 
I hereby award Montanabw this Barnstar for so much work on Horse related articles without enough recognition! -- Culnacréann
16 August 2007

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Where "my" articles or my photos (mostly photos right now) that I have taken and uploaded on commons have appeared off-wiki (frequently without proper attribution even to Commons, arrgh):

"Having too much fun with userboxes" section

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Things to work on

Currently, this editor has earned the Grandmaster Editor service award.

To get to the next level, Grandmaster Editor First-Class, they need to meet the editing requirement.
Progress towards the next level (by edits): [ 8000 / 18000 ]

44.4% completed

  

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I think the following articles need to be created, and I will do so eventually if someone else doesn't beat me to the punch:

Stuff I will deal with eventually, maybe

Hackamore links:

UCDavis rearranged all their genetics stuff, all links broken and need to be fixed in color articles:

UKy web pages: http://www.ca.uky.edu/gluck/AGTRL/Guide%20to%20Color%20Gene%20Testing.pdf http://www.ca.uky.edu/gluck/AGTRL.asp#color Link to all the places with tests: http://www.horsecolors.us/color_test_links.htm

Sources to cite somewhere:

  • Article on managing minis, add to nutrition and mini articles

http://www.thehorse.com/viewarticle.aspx?ID=9224

Financial impact of the horse show industry


The following articles, last I checked, are in desperate need of help:

QPQ storage

QPQ: (None)