User talk:Pogrump

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The policy I found is linked to by what she was calling the right policy, so both apply, and the major problems in the lead remain anyway.

1. Not a policy. Style-Guidelines are guides to how we should handle things.
2. Both cannot apply, since one of them contradicts the other. Articles != Lists with regards to structure (style) which should be obvious.
3. The inline link you pointed out, is not a directional link, but a descriptive link.
4. And i'm male.
5. Please research a bit on how other lists are structured before assuming knowledge ;-) Category:Lists is a nested list of all of WP's lists.

--Kim D. Petersen (talk) 23:29, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

In my view, the text of the two can be reasonably interpreted either way and is therefore ambiguous. I believe the only way to make progress is with draft text and would like to urge you both to not bog down arguing which interpretation of the ambiguity is "right". NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 01:03, 14 September 2012 (UTC)