Talk:Selective breeding
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"The fallacy of breed purity "
There seems to be an incomplete edit. I've removed the broken sentence from the end of the paragraph
Studbooks have been kept for centuries; the concept of the breed associations and clubs is more recent. Most of the "purebred horses" have open studbooks. For example, a "purebred" Arabian mare can be "examined" by the Trakehner authorities; if she is found acceptable, her offspring can be registered as Trakehner. in which mares and stallions
so it now reads grammatically. Agree that there is also a POV problem. Andrewa 22:13 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Regarding my recent edits
I agreed with User Mav's concerns over the lack of NPOV. I also thought the article could benefit from some tightening, so I did some copyediting, and specifically:
- Deleted ‘landrace’. I can find no definition of this word beyond Landrace, referring to several breeds of swine in Northern Europe.
- Moved paragraph on the Appaloosa horse, to an example following the methods of selective breeding.
- ‘Fallacy of’ changed to the neutral ‘debate over’. Deleted North-American centric wording; this occurs all over.
- Copyedited paragraphs dealing with eugenics, added references to hybrid vigor and to domestic cats.
Quill 00:40, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)