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The result was keep. 4 people in oppose of deletion, 2 in favor, however supports are not much impressing. (non-admin closure) ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ ^{Talk Email} 14:34, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Flags of country subdivisions[edit]

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Wikipedia:NOTGALLERY —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:36, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. Not all useful things on Wikipedia should be deleted, and not all galleries are bad. For example, Gallery of sovereign-state flags is good. It is even touted at Wikipedia:Gallery as an example of a good gallery (although that did not keep nominator for also nominating that gallery for deletion). That gallery is indeed extremely useful as a navigational aid. Assisting navigation is one of the stated purposes of lists, and galleries can also serve that purpose, in particular for items whose primary representation is visual. As it is, for many people the primary representation of the topic of this gallery is also visual, and it serves a navigational purpose.  --Lambiam 23:09, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 01:20, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep. What a ridiculous nomination. Sławomir Biały (talk) 12:38, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy keep and a ((trout)) for the nominator, who apparently decided to shotgun AfD with a bunch of nominations, citing a single policy, the same for each, that doesn't even apply to most of them, without any other justification. Frankly it smells very much of WP:IDONTLIKEIT. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 05:58, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete fails WP:GNG. Completely unreferenced. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:45, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
• Speedy Keep For the same reasons that have been given for all of these articles the nominator has AFD'd with the same incorrect rationale. WP:NOTGALLERY is not violated and the subject matter is notable. ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹^Speak 09:00, 12 October 2011 (UTC) (I'm just copying and pasting my !vote now but under the circumstances I think it's reasonable)[reply]

Further comment - How do national flags fail WP:GNG? As for referencing, one can simply click on the individual articles (e.g. List of Polish flags) and find refs there. ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹^Speak 09:00, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete per lack of references. GoodDay (talk) 05:52, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Lack of references is not grounds for deletion. Most lists lack references. Sławomir Biały (talk) 10:21, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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