Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Coats of arms of micronations (2nd nomination)


 * 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. ( X! ·  talk )  · @010  · 23:14, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Coats of arms of micronations
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The vast majority of these coats of arms are copyrighted, and so this "article" serves entirely as a non-free gallery. J Milburn (talk) 14:19, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep. "Vast majority" does not mean "all". If nominator feel,that any of images is copyrighted, simply he can nominate for deletion this image, not article itself.--Yopie (talk) 15:37, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep If your only problem with the articles is a few non-free coats then simply remove them, dont delete the article. remember to be bold.--SelfQ (talk) 16:22, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow. I don't think I've been accused of not being bold in a long time. My argument is not that the article contains non-free images, it is that it is here purely to show non-free images. The topic of the article is not legitimate- if there was an article called "Britney Spears album covers", and it merely consisted of a gallery of album covers, I would nominate that for deletion, as removing the covers would render the article useless. A similar thing is true here. J Milburn (talk) 16:38, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I have removed all of the seals that are not free use. J Milburn (talk) 17:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment: If our non-free content policies are not good enough, feel free to note the arguments from the previous AfD. Basically, this is unencyclopedic- most of the micronations are barely notable themselves, let alone their emblems. J Milburn (talk) 16:39, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a ... repository of ... images.  Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 20:42, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. Who then was a gentleman? has it right. Image galleries are not WP articles. This violates WP:NOTREPOSITORY. Deor (talk) 21:33, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete per Who then was a gentleman?. Unencyclopedic. Resolute 03:14, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete Fail notability. As unencyclopedic as the "Coat of Arms of the Chair I Sit In to Edit Wikipedia." Silly and pretentious utter nonsense. "Micronations" are not nations. No one cares about their "Coats of Arms." Edison (talk) 05:11, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Comment if WP:NOTREPOSITORY is applied, please also nominate for deletion:
 * Coats of arms of unrecognized states
 * Gallery of country coats of arms
 * Coats of arms of dependent territories
 * Gallery of sovereign-state flags
 * Gallery of dependent territory flags
 * Flags of unrecognized and partially recognized states
 * Flags of micronations —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seb az86556 (talk • contribs) 15:50, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * If you want to go that far why not just type in "Gallery of", "Flags of" and "Coats of arms of" in the search box and delete every single article it comes up with.--SelfQ (talk) 19:49, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * I'll certainly look into it, but the flags of Europe are clearly of more encyclopedic interest than the coats of arms of micronations... J Milburn (talk) 22:06, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * WP:OTHERCRAPEXISTS is the page you're looking for, I believe. Who then was a gentleman? (talk) 23:10, 10 July 2009 (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.