Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flag of Mars

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The result was keep. ✗plicit 11:34, 20 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Similar to Flag of Earth, there is no "Flag of Mars". The proposals are not individually notable; they are sourced primarily to their own promoters. None of them are credible efforts towards being generally accepted. Olchug (talk) 14:00, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep -- At least the red-blue-green vertical tricolor flag is somewhat notable (though obviously there is not and cannot be a legally "official" Mars flag at this point). I somehow missed the Flag of Earth Afd, but I would have argued that the Earth Day flag (i.e. "Blue marble" astronaut photo on a field of blue) was very highly notable. AnonMoos (talk) 20:19, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

AnonMoos, interesting that the request Earth Day flag redirects to the Ecology Flag, and not the flag that you had in mind, i. e. "Blue marble". --Olchug (talk) 08:13, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - the question at hand is not "are these proposals individually notable?" but rather "is the concept of a Martian Flag sufficiently notable to warrant a list?" I would say yes - there's enough examples and enough sourcing here to meet WP:SALAT. PianoDan (talk) 22:28, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete - just because someone makes a flag and calls it the Martian Flag, does not make it the flag of Mars. --Bduke (talk) 02:42, 8 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep - I agree with PianoDan. Pyraminxsolver (talk) 04:15, 9 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep based on the two real world examples which to me demonstrate sufficient notability of the concept (the fictional examples don't add much re notability but absolutely belong there if we have this article). --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:58, 11 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 14:43, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep Surprisingly a good number of WP:RS for what seemed like to me, prima facie a non-notable topic, has met WP:GNG. TartarTorte 15:58, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep A notable topic, both in science fiction and in the promotion of space exploration. The fact that one such flag was taken into orbit on board a Space Shuttle seals the deal. Cullen328 (talk) 18:51, 14 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Astronomy-related deletion discussions. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 02:55, 15 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep per above, this is a notable topic. Inspect61 (talk) 03:50, 17 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Keep per above. It may need a little cleanup (as many articles do), but the concept of a Martian flag is a notable one. ~BappleBusiness^[talk] 00:09, 20 March 2022 (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.