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Editorial Policy

By the Dressage Wiki Editorial Board · Updated 5 July 2026

Dressage Wiki is an encyclopedia about buying dressage horses in Europe. This page describes how its articles are produced and maintained. The policy exists so that readers can judge for themselves whether to trust what they read here.

Purpose and scope

The wiki documents the European dressage horse market for buyers: the purchase process, prices, breeds and studbooks, bloodlines, veterinary examination, contracts, transport and import. It describes how things work; it does not sell horses, list horses for sale, recommend specific sellers, or broker introductions.

Neutrality

Articles are written in a neutral, descriptive register. In practice this means:

  • No article recommends or endorses a commercial party. Where companies must be named because they are part of how the market works — auction houses, online marketplaces, transport companies — several are named, factually, without ranking or preference.
  • No article contains advertising, sponsored content, affiliate links or promotional links, including links to any commercial pages of the site that hosts the wiki. The wiki does sell one advertising slot, described under advertising; it sits outside the article text and no article refers to it or to an advertiser.
  • Where the equestrian world disagrees on a question — for example how much weight to give bloodlines, or whether certain radiographic findings matter — the article presents the positions and who holds them rather than settling the argument.

Sourcing

Factual claims are attributed. The wiki prefers primary and institutional sources: FEI rules and databases, studbook regulations (KWPN, Hannoveraner Verband, Oldenburger Verband and others), national federation rules, government publications on animal transport and import (such as USDA/APHIS and EU regulations), and veterinary literature. Trade-press reporting and interviews with market participants are used for market practice, always with the caveat that practice varies between countries and sellers.

Figures that change over time (prices, transport costs, quarantine rules, tax treatment) are stated as ranges, dated in the text (“as of 2026”), and scheduled for review. The wiki does not publish precise figures it cannot source.

Review

Every article is reviewed before publication and at each update:

  • Veterinary content (examinations, radiographs, findings, health) is reviewed by an equine veterinarian.
  • Sport and market content (evaluation of horses, training levels, market practice) is reviewed by professionals active in international dressage.
  • Legal, customs and tax content is checked against primary sources and is written as general information, not advice. Articles on these subjects state explicitly that national law differs and that a specialised professional should be consulted for a specific transaction.

Reviewers are listed by role on the editorial board page. Authorship of the wiki is organisational: articles are published by the editorial board as a whole rather than under individual bylines, and are edited over time by more than one person.

Updates

Each article displays the date it was last revised. Time-sensitive articles (prices, import procedures, auction calendars, tax and customs rules) are reviewed at least every six months. All other articles are reviewed at least once a year. A review that finds nothing to change still refreshes the review date.

Corrections

Errors are corrected in the article itself as soon as they are confirmed. Corrections that change the substance of an article (a wrong figure, a wrong rule, a wrong attribution) are noted at the foot of the article with the date of the correction. Readers who find an error can report it through the site’s contact page; reports are checked against sources before any change is made.

What this wiki is not

  • Not veterinary, legal, tax or financial advice. Articles explain how pre-purchase examinations, contracts, VAT and import rules work in general. A specific horse, contract or shipment needs a professional who can examine the specifics.
  • Not a marketplace. The wiki carries no listings and takes no commissions.
  • Not publicly editable. Despite the name, Dressage Wiki does not accept public edits. All content is produced and revised under this policy.

Advertising

The wiki carries a single advertising slot. Its terms are fixed and are stated here so that a reader can check them against what they see on the page.

  • It is labelled Advertisement, in every position it appears.
  • It sits outside the article text, and no article mentions, links to or is written about an advertiser.
  • It does not appear on this page, on the about page or on the contribute page, which set out the wiki’s editorial position.
  • Its link is marked rel="sponsored", so it passes no ranking signal to the advertiser and is not an endorsement by the wiki.
  • Its text is excluded from the site’s search index, so it cannot surface as though it were an article.
  • An advertiser buys placement. They get no influence over article content, no advance sight of articles, no say in what the wiki covers, and no removal of anything they dislike. An advertiser who asks for any of that is declined the slot.

Independence and funding

Dressage Wiki is hosted on, and funded by, the website on which it appears, together with the advertising slot described above. The publisher’s commercial activities have no influence on article content, and no article links to the publisher’s commercial pages. The editorial board’s obligation under this policy is to the accuracy and neutrality of the articles, not to the publisher’s or any advertiser’s commercial interests.