Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of countries whose flag has a star


 * 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. If anyone really wants this userified to their space, they can ask me directly... &mdash; Scientizzle 16:00, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

List of countries whose flag has a star

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An indiscriminate collection of information and essentially nothing more than an image gallery, which I'm pretty sure is against policy. Prod removed by author. JuJube (talk) 16:35, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Unencyclopedic, and it is just an image gallery, not even really a list. I could see it being a category, but as an article it is more or less useless. Beeblbrox (talk) 16:54, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom and WP:NOT Doc StrangeMailbox Orbitting Black Hole Strange Frequencies 17:17, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak keep A perfect example of an article that rolled off the presses too soon.  There is room for someone to "save" the concept by adding information to put the colorful pictures into context.  Identifying which nation each flag comes from would be an obvious improvement (what were you thinking?), although that wouldn't be enough to justify an article.  In the world of vexillology, or whatever the study of flags is called, there are published sources that explain the images chosen for a nation's banner.  We know what the 50 stars on the American flag stand for, but what about the 8 stars on Venezuela's flag?  We know why Israel's flag has a six-pointed star, but why for the African nation of Burundi?  (Those of us who have seen that flag always assumed that they were regular stars).  And I'm sure all the Aussies can tell us why their flag uses seven-point stars, but why Jordan?  My advice to Bezuidenhout is to userfy your article.  You're going to have a lot of people voting to delete because it's not much of an article at the moment, although I suspect that you have a good reason for counting the points on the stars.  It can be a great article as long as you fix it up.  Mandsford (talk) 17:49, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete I don't even think the flags are comparable by number of stars, are they? I mean, don't the stars have different meanings for each flag? Gary King (talk) 18:36, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Weak delete/userfy - In some ways, I think this could become a reasonable article. It certainly isn't at the moment.  Per Mandsford, I think it would be good if some actual text was added to put them in context, but until this is done, it will be difficult to judge whether or not it deserves an isolated article, or if the information is more useful split among several existing articles Fritzpoll (talk) 18:45, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - just a gallery. Subject is somewhat indiscriminate, though I see possibility for it being a category Think outside the box 19:37, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Indiscriminate. This could maybe be re-done as a category, containing each article on "Flag of X", but there's no reason for a list on this. Hers fold  (t/a/c) 20:28, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete Userfy. Just a gallery of images, with no content explaining why having a star in the flag is in any way significant. (And yes I know it is, but this topic is likely covered elsewhere. I'm willing to change my vote to keep, however, if the article is expanded to include such information. Even then, though, it might be a tough job making it sound notable. Additional: I've changed my "vote" to userfy as reading some of the comments here have cast doubt as to whether this was intended to be a full-fledged article and not a work-in-progress. 23skidoo (talk) 21:01, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete If the subject is notable, it should have a name that concentrates on the flags, not on the stars. I don't see how the subject is a useful list; it seems more the indiscriminate collection.  Nyttend (talk) 03:25, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Userfy - As per Mandsford, this page is really just a gallery of flags, I can just see the usefullness of it, but really it needs some text to explain what flags these are. Also a whole list of "flags with a star" exists at Gallery of flags with stars, which is linked to in the list of flags template at the bottom of the List of flags article. --  DWR talk  22:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions.   -- Fabrictramp (talk) 17:37, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete - has no advantage over a Category. Exit2DOS2000   •T•C•  03:44, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-encyclopedic trivia. KleenupKrew (talk) 22:33, 3 April 2008 (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.