Talk:Josias I, Count of Waldeck-Eisenberg

External links

The fact that an external link is functional is a necessary but not sufficient condition for its inclusion. For the external link under dispute here, there is an established consensus that it is a self-published site and its content is not reliable. Additionally, when an external link is disputed, it is excluded by default unless and until there is a positive consensus for inclusion. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:24, 6 October 2022 (UTC)

I'm glad that you finally decided to communicate in a normal way and give an explanation why you think this external link should be deleted. I strongly objected the way you "communicated" at first with incomprehensible abbreviations in the edit summary, or links to guidelines, effectively saying to me "find it out yourself". When you would have started with a message here, giving this explanation, instead of just deleting the link, we could have reached a solution in an amicable and civilised way. I have no problem with the link being deleted from the article, because I didn't add it. I simply didn't delete it when I rewrote the article, as I saw no valid reason to do so.

I also want to add some remarks about the apparent policy. The fact that it is a self-published website is something that doesn't convince me at all, as almost every website is self-published. The fact that the content isn't reliable also isn't very convincible to me, because Wikipedia isn't very reliable either. As long as the content of such websites isn't used as a source of information for the article, I personally see no valid reason not to mention them under the header external links. But, in my humble opinion, this external link isn't very important to the article. So, I see no reason to continue the edit war. Roelof Hendrickx (talk) 02:23, 6 October 2022 (UTC)