User:Nameneko/Japanese municipal symbols

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This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

The following are city, town, village, etc. symbols in Japan and also includes prefectural symbols for the sake of having them in one location. I will try to continually add to this page as time progresses. If you are interested in helping to create symbols like these, manhole covers are one of the best sources you can find. Also, this list is incomplete, as I am only including symbols that I am aware of. If you find any more, please feel free to add any.

Also, if enough are added and if I get solid Japanese copyright information, I will begin uploading these to Wikimedia Commons. No one on the Commons has replied to my questions as of yet, so if you know anything that could, might, or will help, please add an entry on the talk page of either this page or my main user page.

In the US, these are classified under the trademarked/copyrighted logo copyright ({{logo}}), but if they're going to be available to anybody in any country on Wikimedia Commons, it'd probably be the best I idea to make sure about the country that they're from. In Japan, the prefectuaral symbols were deleted, but I have yet to find the copyright that keeps the symbols from being uploaded on the ja.wikipedia, at least in English.

Also, I don't think that this will ever become a WikiProject, but if I can garner enough support for this and/or the Japanese railway project, I will organize one. For right now, though, here are some guidelines that I think will help a little:

Symbols should be in black for uniformity unless there is a set color or other valid reason for a different color.
It would be recommended that symbols be larger than 150 pixels in width and/or height. Existing ones are exempt from this unless they are significantly smaller (smaller that 120px)
Symbols are to fall under the {{logo}} copyright until a better one is found.
Until the Japanese copyright status is clarified, they are not to be uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.
Prefectural symbols are to named PrefSymbol-{prefecture}.
City or similar symbols are to be named {name} {City, Town, Village, or what applies} Symbol. Existing symbols are exempt.
PNG files are always preferred.
Although it sounds obvious, make sure that the images aren't orphans. If you do upload an image and you think that it might not be used for an amount of time (short enough to avoid AfD, of course) make sure, when you add it to this list, to place, after the article link:

<font color="red">'''OR'''</font>

When adding to this list make sure to...

Sort by prefecture
Place prefectural symbols first
Alphabetize the rest of the symbols
Place a link for symbols that are not prefectural symbols:

[[{link to city article}|{city name with appropriate ending (city, town, village, etc.)}]]

When placing images here, make sure to link to them, not have them display if they are tagged with a fair use tag, such as {{logo}}. To do so, use [[:Image:foo.jpg]] instead of [[Image:foo.jpg]]. The display of such images is against policy as written at Wikipedia:Fair use criteria item #9.