Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of country coats of arms (4th 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 (WP:NAC). There seems to a clear consensus to keep this article. Only one vote was in favor of the deletion regarding WP:GNG, but the article seems to easily pass it. ♛♚★Vaibhav Jain★♚♛ ^Talk ^Email 13:09, 14 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery of country coats of arms

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Wikipedia:NOTGALLERY —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:43, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep WP:NOTGALLERY refers to articles "with no text". This article contains text and, if we should want more, this is best done by further editing in accordance with our editing policy, not by deletion. The topic has a clear and coherent theme and so is quite proper. Warden (talk) 20:28, 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) 01:17, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per Warden. No legitimate basis for deletion given. Sławomir Biały (talk) 12:31, 9 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy keep Allcaps invalid nom, subject notable, every encyclopedia will have them, trout, etc. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 08:01, 10 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete fails WP:GNG. Stuartyeates (talk) 08:44, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

How so? Most of the entries in the list even have an article about them. Gathering these closely-related articles into a list for browsing is one of the many things we do as part of building an encyclopedia. Sławomir Biały (talk) 11:11, 11 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Speedy keep - Nomination rationale is incorrect as demonstrated and the subject matter clearly meets WP:GNG as there are articles for every single coat of arms. ŞůṜīΣĻ¹98¹^Speak 07:39, 12 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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.