Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flags of cities of the United States

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. ✗plicit 14:29, 5 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Flags of cities of the United States (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views) – (View log | edits since nomination)

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Category-masquerading-as-an-article. Fails WP:NOTGALLERY. Save a few exceptions, most of these flags are not even important enough to get mentioned on the page of their respective city. Thus, there is no reasonable ground on which to expect the presence of significant coverage from which to write encyclopedic prose for this list topic, either, on top of the NOT issue. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 14:12, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete While there's a slightly more coverage than US County Flags (e.g. American City Flags by Purcell et al.), it still shares the same fundamental issues of failing WP:NLIST and WP:NOTGALLERY. Qwaiiplayer (talk) 14:23, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Lists and United States of America. Shellwood (talk) 15:12, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge into List of city flags in North America. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 18:06, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  How would moving the category-masquerading-as-an-article to another page with the exact same issues address the problem? The deletion rationale here applies just as much to that other page, I'll probably do a new group nom later today... RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 19:49, 28 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  I will do this group nom because these categories-masquerading-as-articles should have been image gallery pages on Commons a decade ago. SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 00:26, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete Per WP:LISTCRUFT, it is a non-free gallery of images of flags, and it is actually unnecessary.
• Nuke em ASAP SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 05:00, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete Way too much detail, way too many blank listsings, way too many minor places. If the flag is notable we can put up information about it on the article on the city, we do not need such a long and uncontrolled list.John Pack Lambert (talk) 15:57, 29 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete: Per Nom and JPL. -- Otr500 (talk) 19:59, 30 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment This article could be transformed into a redirect to city flags of the United States by state or region. The pages then explain the meanings of the city flags. An example would be: A user goes to this page, chooses "Flags of cities in Alaska" then scrolls to Seward's flag, which contains both the flag and meaning(s) of the city's flag. The user is also able to see meanings and other information for other flags in the region/state. Flags without meanings are left on the Commons page. Flagvisioner (talk) 19:51, 1 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

  Or, and much simpler, users simply go to the article about the city, and if there is some encyclopedic information about the flag of the city, it gets included in the article about the city (where one would expect it to be, to begin with). No need for WP:NOTGALLERY violations or lists which are so large as to take decades scrolling through them (hence defeating any practical purpose they might have). RandomCanadian (talk / contribs) 13:53, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete As per nomination and JPL. MrsSnoozyTurtle 22:18, 4 May 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.