Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coat of arms of the Donetsk People's Republic


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was   delete. The single "keep" opinion is basically WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS, which is not a good argument for an AFD. Lankiveil (speak to me) 01:22, 1 January 2015 (UTC)

Coat of arms of the Donetsk People's Republic

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Per Deletion review/Log/2014 December 9, the merits of this speedily deleted article should be discussed here. Please see the review discussion for possible reasons for deletion. This is a procedural nomination, I am neutral.  Sandstein  12:08, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * I was one of three editors who consecutively declined this for speedy deletion before it was finally taken out on the fourth attempt. I'm not going to vote here, but would like to bring to the attention of the debate a few facts which led to my speedy decline.  It is clearly a real thing, not just made up one day by an over-enthusiastic Donetsk partisan, it being covered on numerous sites.  The symbolism and history is discussed in depth here and here.  CBC think it notable enough to mention that stickers with the Donetsk coat of arms were placed over the Ukraine coat of arms on ballot boxes.  This vexicology site sees fit to include it.  Articles on individual coats of arms seem to be well established and accepted by the community as encyclopaedic topics. SpinningSpark 13:53, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:22, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ukraine-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:22, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 18:23, 24 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete A10 - the article adds nothing to what's already in Donetsk People's Republic. It also lacks any references. Bazj (talk) 19:44, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete. Can be covered in the article about the republic. However, I note that an attempt of mine to add the former coat to the republic article was promptly reverted with "no soruce for this sketch crap", which, reluctantly, I have to accept because indeed I had not provided any soruce. &mdash; RHaworth (talk · contribs) 14:49, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete per A10. If there's any reliably sourced content here, it belongs in the DPR article. Incidentally,, I did notice that your addition was reverted with an extremely uncivil ES and was tempted to chide the IP hopper for his/her bad faith, but there's no point in trying to give a hopper a soruce. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 05:36, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep we have an article on the Coat of Arms of Nauru, I don't see why not create an article on the coat of arms of Donestk PR... they're may not be much info on the topic now, but more will be added as the situation in Eastern Europe normalises. Solntsa90 (talk) 19:30, 28 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete No reliable sources.  Even the image of the coat of arms appears to be extracted from an unsourced image of a flag on commons.  -- RoySmith (talk) 00:28, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.