Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of coins

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 of the debate was Keep.--Kungfu Adam ^(talk) 18:11, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gallery of coins

unmaintainable - there are 174 currencies, Wikipedia is not for collections of photographs. Redundant to commons:Category:Coins --Astrokey44 16:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

• Strong Delete per nom - CrazyRussian talk/email 16:02, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of banknotes. --Mr. Lefty _{Talk to me!} 16:03, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• strong keep as per precedent. Antmoney85 16:06, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Gallery of banknotes, Gallery of sovereign-state flags and Category:Wikipedia image galleries. Wikpedia has to have a collection of images on which to draw from. Besides that, it is almost impossible to place every single image that applies to an article into that article space, therefore, galleries accentuate and expound upon articles same as lists, glosseries and portals. Joe I 16:37, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

• this gallery is incomplete showing only 8 of the worlds 174 currencies and is already at the 32kb suggested file size. it would be enormous if it included every coin of every currency in use today (front and back view, i might add), while the flag gallery is complete. also because it is called 'gallery of coins' it could include all of countless historical coins like Roman provincial coins, the St. Patrick Halfpenny etc. --Astrokey44 16:46, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep concur with Joe I --Chochopk 17:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, but split into smaller units - eg 'Coinage of [country]' - to deal with file sizes. A useful collection of images, and although there are indeed lots of countries it doesn't seem at all impossible to aim for the whole set in due course. The very similar Gallery of banknotes has survived an AfD, and the main difference here may be that there are potentially more images to store. But, in my view, that's not a reason for junking what could grow into a very useful resource. --MichaelMaggs 17:17, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

• They already have galleries at commons split up into convienient sizes like you suggest like Argentine coins, Austrian coins, American coins. Deleting this article does not delete any images. --Astrokey44 17:27, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

• No vote - This gallery would be much too huge. I suggest breaking it up in terms of region/chronology. Wickethewok 17:28, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. -- TruthbringerToronto 19:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, divide gallery - Per Wickethewok, the gallery is growing too large. Other lists/galleries on this wiki have been divided into seperate article pages that say things like "List of (widgets) A-C", "List of (widgets) D-F", etc... We could do the same for this gallery.
• Strong Keep per Joe/Searchme. hateless 21:49, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete This is what wikicommons is for, keeping these images. Wikipedia gives samples and not a whole collection of a currency. Enlil Ninlil 01:38, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, but split into subgalleries, possibly by continent. Grutness...wha? 01:58, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
• Delete of course. We don't have image galleries, per precedent; that's something for Commons. Just zis Guy you know? 18:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Comment See if ya'll like these any better...Gallery of Asia and Oceania coins...Gallery of Africa coins. Joe I 20:00, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of banknotes and subdivide as necessary. Yamaguchi先生 09:00, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
• Keep per established precedent. --cholmes75 ^{(chit chat)} 03:04, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete this and re-nominate the others. Gallery ≠ Article. — Jul. 2, '06 [19:02] <freak|talk>
• Keep. Coins. Herostratus 19:35, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
• Delete I own several coins that aren't even listed. The list concept should clearly point out that such things will never be satisfactory nor complete. Some of the numismatics shown there could stand to have an article all of their own. The penny for a different example has numerous reasons to have an article. Rather than listing endless structures hoping to create a non-maintainable monstrosity, editors should be collaborating on providing information. The pictures were nice though. Ste4k 06:43, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

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.