Talk:Ontario Highway 427

message: Regarding this external link, which Floydian has been adding and I've been removing: Lost Road: Indian Line Road
What to do when the guidelines are contradictory?  As Floydian has pointed out, the guidelines say that "links to be considered" include sites that are not reliable sources.  But as I've pointed out, the guidelines also say that "one should generally avoid ... links to ... discussion forums."   To me, "consider" is weaker than "avoid," and thus we should prefer the second guideline over the first. Similarly, "no" is stronger than "maybe" (the first guideline is abbreviated as WP:ELMAYBE and the second is shortened to WP:NO). Can anyone suggest a way of resolving the contradiction? 99.224.54.167 (talk) 21:17, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally I feel the heart and soul of avoiding forums is to avoid pointless jibber jabber on a subject, or to avoid hordes of forums that discuss a specific topic (say, HTML) from being tacked onto those articles. In this case we have a very well researched post on a lost road that includes numerous pictures and inquiry into something that I would love to include in the article if reliable sources were available. It offers an in-depth examination and isn't a personal forum that needs our traffic to succeed or get noticed; it just happens to be a post on a forum as opposed to a freely hosted website. I think these reasons give this specific link an exemption from the no forums point. - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 21:54, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

text: That makes sense to me.  Thanks for explaining. Really, the guidelines need to be rewritten. 99.224.54.167 (talk) 01:59, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
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