Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flags of the World

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 redirect‎ to Gallery of sovereign state flags. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:23, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Per WP:ONEOTHER, the primary redirect to Gallery of sovereign state flags should be restored. See related RM from 2020 here. 162 etc. (talk) 00:55, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to Gallery of sovereign state flags -- I agree TheRealOj32 (talk) 01:50, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 09:09, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
• Restore as article title for contents of Flags of the World (website), with that article's current title to be redirected there. This was the vexillological website's stable title for 15 years, up until the requested move linked by the nominator. I find the rationale of the closing administrator for that evenly-split discussion at the very least questionable, so take my !vote as a de facto review request for that action. I find it unlikely that someone who takes the trouble to type only the final W as a capital letter (but not O or T, or even F, O, or T) to want anything other than the vexillological website. Flags of the world currently redirects to Gallery of sovereign state flags, so add a hatnote there for the vexillological website per WP:ONEOTHER. Havradim leaf a message 20:00, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  I'll note that Flags Of The World also redirects to Gallery of sovereign state flags. 162 etc. (talk) 22:07, 11 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

  Thanks for pointing that out. Following the same logic, I would be in favour of retargeting Flags Of The World to the vexillological website as well. It is not unheard of to capitalise a proper name title such as this, and it is also evocative of their acronym. Also, see a similar discussion that restored a redirect to a disambiguated term which capital letters usage pointed to. Havradim leaf a message 17:23, 12 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 00:35, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Gallery of sovereign state flags per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. This is clearly the more likely meaning for the term than some random web site, even though the web site has the exact title and the other article does not. For an analogous case, see Mathematics in India (redirect) and Mathematics in India (book) (not primary topic). Also note that "stable title for 15 years" is not a valid rationale for choosing a different outcome; the same thing could as easily be read as "violation of PRIMARYTOPIC that has lasted 15 years before we realized that it needed fixing". —David Eppstein (talk) 00:47, 18 September 2023 (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.