Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of current first-level administrative country subdivisions maps


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The result was   transwiki any eligible images, delete the list. Since this gallery is, to put it simply, huge, I'm going to take the unusual step of userfying it to my own userspace at User:jonny-mt/Gallery of current first-level administrative country subdivisions maps. This should serve the dual purpose of weeding out any non-free images (thanks to the helpful bots who delink any non-free images outside of the main article namespace) and allowing time to confirm whether or not any of these images are not on Commons. I'm fine with working on this myself, but any help would naturally be most appreciated. -- jonny - m t  06:14, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

Gallery of current first-level administrative country subdivisions maps

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Wikipedia is not an image gallery. If anyone wants to transwiki this to Commons, they can do so in the five days of this AfD.  Sandstein  20:12, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Trans and Delete per WP:NOTREPOSITORY. A good resource but it doesnt belong here. -- neon white talk 01:15, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. Are all of these images in fact Commons images?  I haven't checked all of them.  If all are Commons or Commons-eligible, then delete this once it is transwikied.  If some images are not Commons eligible for whatever reason, then keep it, as the only way to preserve a useful index. - Smerdis of Tlön (talk) 15:20, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment Most of these images are in Wikipedia imagespace, not Commons. However, they are also used in the articles about each country's subdivions.  This page seems to be a graphical version of Table_of_administrative_country_subdivisions_by_country and Category:Lists_of_country_subdivisions. Squidfryerchef (talk) 21:06, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Not a suitable article, but don't delete. Transwiki, or move to project space, break it into smaller pages.  --SmokeyJoe (talk) 14:48, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I am a casual user of Wikipedia who does not understand esoteric verbs such as 'to transwiki', nor undocumented assertions by putative insiders, such as 'Wikipedia is not an image gallery.' I am making this first attempt at a response because this page has been a godsend to me.  Your articles on individual countries are notoriously uneven in their inclusion of basic geographic information, whereas this page has saved me many hours of research.  I would not like to lose it.  Kenneth Hilton  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.22.104.18 (talk) 20:09, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - not an article --T-rex 23:34, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep this is a useful visual guide to administrative divisions which a table does not properly illustrate. Every image has an accompanying article which has more information - it would be impractical to try and summarise them here - just like the coat of arms and flags galleries. --Roke 01:52, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


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