Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of coats of arms of English counties

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. Sr 13 05:35, 17 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery of coats of arms of English counties[edit]

Contrary to Fair Use policy, purpose of article is to gallery format Fair Use images. — Moe ε 11:39, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. This is information, like Gallery of sovereign state flags, that truly begs for graphical presentation. I do not believe that any of these traditional heraldic images are copyrightable in the United States; they lack originality. Even if they were, contrary to some opinions, our fair use policy does not categorically forbid the presentations of galleries of fair use images; what it actually says is that "The use of non-free media in lists, galleries, and navigational and user-interface elements is normally regarded as merely decorative, and is thus unacceptable." A gallery of heraldic images is not "merely decorative" any more than a gallery of flags or currency is. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:17, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep very useful resource, information impossible to adequately represent non-graphically. DuncanHill 14:54, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep would this be any different than lots of other articles here, if we merely added the populations of the various entities to the tables? Does lacking that change the character of the use? If one thinks this a copyvio, perhaps it ought to be taken there, but it seems a stretch claim to me. In the absence of a copyvio, this is an obvious keeper. Carlossuarez46 16:20, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep This is a useful article because it helps me to see the differences between different English coats of arms. MPS 21:29, 12 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of United Kingdom-related deletions. -- John Vandenberg 10:00, 13 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Keep I don't see where this article is not in line with policy and worthy of being deleted. - T-75|talk|contribs 16:13, 14 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - Would you want to delete a gallery of the flags of the 50 states of USA? It would be possible to describe them all in heraldic French, but few of us know that it means. The pictures are much better. These are frequently used as logos by the counties, and so are notable. I doubt there are any copyright problems, since the College of Heralds create coats of arsm with the view that they should be published. Peterkingiron 23:22, 14 June 2007 (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.