Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of United Kingdom academic heraldry

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. The fair use images have been deleted already, I note. If someone wants a list of what images were on this gallery in order to add them to a category, please let me know and I'll provide them with it. Proto::► 16:37, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery of United Kingdom academic heraldry

Delete: I have removed 78 fair use tagged images from this article per terms of Wikipedia:Fair use criteria item #8 and multiple discussions regarding the use of fair use images in galleries. This left 68 images, or less than half of the original images. Since this article can not hope to achieve a reasonably complete display of all the heraldic devices of these colleges and universities, it is inherently unencyclopedic. It would be as if we were to create an article on the Tower of London without being able to ever include anything about its history. This article is hopelessly hamstrung due to fair use policy restrictions and as such should be deleted as unencyclopedic. --Durin 16:14, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It is a pity to lose this. I suggest move to project space maybe as a subpage of Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities, although I realise it contains images for schools as well as universities. --Bduke 21:19, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Move to United Kingdom academic heraldry. Instead of a gallery, it could be made into a table with information about the history of the logos, etc. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 23:51, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It is a pity to lose but I agree that the article can never accomplish what it sets out to.--Dmz5 05:42, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comment: Readers of this afd should consider that the purpose of this page can be handled just the same by a category of the images on Commons. For example, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Battle_of_Austerlitz. All of the images that can be hosted on this article are free license. Thus, all of them can be on Commons. Categories in commons perform essentially the same function that this article attempts. --Durin 14:02, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- That is likely a better way to go. Eusebeus 17:49, 23 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached
Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Kungfu Adam ^(talk) 20:23, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delete after transferring remaining images to Commons as per User:Durin.HeartofaDog 01:48, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Durin. Categories now have the capability to display contained images, so this article (which merely displays them) is superfluous. Additionally, the fair use problem is significant. --Dhartung | Talk 08:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Durin Guy (Help!) 19:39, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Before deletion, categorize the images (Category:United Kingdom academic coat of arms images?) since they are currently only in the very broad category Category:British coat of arms images. —Quarl ^(talk) 2007-01-02 08:36Z

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.