Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Canadian flags


 * 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The result was Withdrawn. Black Kite (t) (c) 19:50, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
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This article is a list of Canadian flags which contains no less than 73 non-free images, the most unfree page on the entire English Wikipedia (link). I could go through the article and remove them per WP:NFCC and WP:NFLISTS, but then the article would become somewhat pointless as a list of flags really depends on the ability to view the images. Thus, this AfD is something of a test to see whether a page which horribly fails a core policy WP:NFCC, but would become pointless if it met that policy, should be retained. It will be interesting to see if Wikipedia's mission as a Free Content Encyclopedia is a reality or something that is of little interest to our contributors. Black Kite (t) (c) 23:23, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete the sections on municipal and corporate flags, but keep the royal, regal, provincial, military, ensign, and historical flags, these are very informative to the make-up of the Canadian monarchy and government. 117Avenue (talk) 23:41, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Comment this is a great idea, because it would remove practically all of the non-free content. In fact, I'm quite tempted to do this right now and close the AfD,  but will let it run for comments. Black Kite (t) (c) 23:51, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Even with just the provincial and royal flags, it's enough to fill out an article on the flags of Canada. I think when we start to be coalitionists, it becomes a mess due to NFC. I can envision a situation where a list article only contains NFC and would need to be outright deleted. I don't think this is the one. Just remove the non-free content.-Andrew c [talk] 23:53, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * Keep but delete the non-required flags per comments above though i am a little on the fence about whether an article contain NFC can be justified.Lil-unique1 (talk) 23:55, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep but delete the municipal flags. We should not have non-free flags in this list, and including just the free flags makes an incomplete list. This page is far to long anyways.--Svgalbertian (talk) 02:28, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Rework per 117Avenue's suggestion, and ensure there's no non-free content on it. --Hammersoft (talk) 12:40, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Keep and explore properly the ACTUAL copyright status of these images, which there was no sign of on the ones I checked. Johnbod (talk) 17:59, 14 May 2010 (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.