Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of distinctive unit insignias

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. If anyone would like a temporary copy of this to use for creation of a gallery on Commons, let me know and I will be happy to facilitate that. Seraphimblade ^{Talk to me} 05:16, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Gallery of distinctive unit insignias

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WP:NOTGALLERY. A very long, almost completely unsourced (one insignia has a source) gallery, basically a repeat of Commons:Category:Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI) of the United States Army. Fram (talk) 16:11, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Military and United States of America. Fram (talk) 16:11, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

No opinion I wasn't aware of NOTGALLERY; I saw Gallery of sovereign state flags and figured Galleries were a thing. My bad. I moved all of these images out of Distinctive unit insignia because it was making that article so large that it was struggling to load, and getting in the way of reading the actual prose. I don't particularly care what happens to Gallery of distinctive unit insignias, as long as the great wall of images doesn't just get moved back to Distinctive unit insignia. The Squirrel Conspiracy (talk) 23:05, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Squirrel Conspiracy, I'm one of the groups of military veteran editors that built that page, from the beginning it was designed and made as it was. It was meant to be a short description and display of the unit insignia. please return it back to how it was as you destroyed years of work on it with your edits. Rukia8492 (talk) 18:52, 15 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The content isn't bad for Wikipedia, it's just not the way to display it. All of these DUI can be displayed in the relevant unit articles. They can also remain on Commons and a link to the commons category can be placed in the DUI article. Jahaza (talk) 21:18, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Transwiki to Commons as c:Distinctive unit insignia of the United States Army. MKFI (talk) 07:41, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

MKFI To clarify, is that in addition to or replacing Commons:Category:Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI) of the United States Army?

@The Squirrel Conspiracy: in addition to. My link is to (non-existing) gallery page, yours is a category. If transwikied the gallery page can then be categorized into Commons:Category:Distinctive Unit Insignia (DUI) of the United States Army. MKFI (talk) 07:44, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 21:28, 16 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. "Distinctive" is a subjective criterion. Clarityfiend (talk) 20:34, 17 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Clarityfiend: Distinctive unit insignia is quite specific and not subjective, they are specifically approved. "Distinctive" here does not mean a generic dictionary definition. MKFI (talk) 14:09, 18 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Daniel (talk) 21:07, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Keep Useful visual list, clearly defined subject (has parent article "Distinctive unit insignia"). If someone is worried with the word "gallery", the article just as well may be renamed to List of distinctive unit insignias - Altenmann >talk 21:20, 23 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
- a "Visual list" is a gallery, and renaming it doesn't change the content. An article is text-based and source-based, summarizing secondary sources about a subject. None of this is present here. Fram (talk) 08:29, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
  - List pages do not "summarize" anything, they.. er.. list things. - Altenmann >talk
    - But (on enwiki) not images, that's what Commons does, and that's why we have "notgallery". Otherwise every gallery would be kept because "it is a list". A list which isn't used for navigation and otherwise doesn't provide information about the listed items is not what enwiki is intended for. Fram (talk) 17:08, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
      - Nor each category is a list for wikipedia purposes. The discussed list does provide information about its items. - Altenmann >talk 23:11, 24 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Transwiki to Commons as per User:MKFI above. Is there any argument to make against that solution? Llajwa (talk) 20:05, 26 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or transwiki per NOTGALLERY. Sandstein 08:03, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete If wp:gallerycruft exists. SpacedFarmer (talk) 11:42, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. 🌺 Cremastra (talk) 19:35, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Delete WP:NOTGALLERY Lightburst (talk) 20:04, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Transwiki to Commons. This sort of page is perfect for Commons, and we should place it there. Destroying the work by just deleting it now makes little sense; first we should have the page imported there, and only after that should it be deleted. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 21:12, 31 January 2024 (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.