Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of country coats of arms (3rd 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   keep. JForget 01:54, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Gallery of country coats of arms
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While many of these files are PD, some are still copyrighted. Commons is an entirely encyclopedic place to put galleries, Wikipedia is not a repository of media files. Another issue is how to deal with claiming fair use for these images--there's no text in which they are discussed, the only thing that remotely makes fair use acceptable here is the title of the page. Looking at the history, quite a few images have already been removed, so I'm not sure what the point of having an incomplete list would look like--Gallery of country coats of arms in the public domain? Lastly, if this is determined to be a keep, I propose renaming it back to Gallery of sovereign state coats of arms (see first AfD) because our list of countries is actually a list of sovereign states, which does include Taiwan, Kosovo, etc. as de facto sovereign states, and under whose criteria for inclusion this gallery should be based on as well. (This does not address the issue of there being historic coats of arms not officially used today, and being excluded from this list, however.) So I'm in favor first of a transwiki free sections to Commons/delete and if kept, a rename.  — fetch ·  comms   22:23, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Also nominating:

 — fetch ·  comms   00:33, 3 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Comment The nominations seems to be asking fora revision of the article,not a deletion of it.  DGG ( talk ) 08:39, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The first AfD was a rename, but that was under a different title. The first for this was solving a histmerge issue, the second a deletion. My nomination is for a delete, but if kept, I'm also proposing a rename, to be more efficient.  — fetch ·  comms   18:30, 31 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep Rename to "List of...". The content is an encyclopedic staple. See List of Canadian flags for a model, and Articles for deletion/List of Canadian flags for a recent comparable AfD.  Ty  02:31, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep valuable resource - rename as a list perhaps...Modernist (talk) 03:15, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep This type of article is standard in print encyclopedias. Edward321 (talk) 00:44, 5 June 2010 (UTC)
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