Commons:Deletion requests/Fictitious Ottoman flags

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  • Add {{delete|reason=Fill in reason for deletion here!|subpage=Fictitious Ottoman flags|year=2024|month=November|day=20}} to the description page of each file.
  • Notify the uploader(s) with {{subst:idw||Fictitious Ottoman flags|plural}} ~~~~
  • Add {{Commons:Deletion requests/Fictitious Ottoman flags}} at the end of today's log.
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Fictitious Ottoman flags

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Those flags are long known to be completely unsubstantiated. They have been removed from pages like en:Flags of the Ottoman Empire and en:Template:Country data Ottoman Empire long ago. See an explanation by User:Dbachmann here. By removing them from the template, they were removed from all pages. Unfortunately they are all misleadingly named as if they are the actual flags of the empire during certain eras, and users that are uninitiated on the subject have been readding them to the articles instead of using the correct template. They are once again used on a terrifyingly great number of pages as if they have any validity.

Fictitious flags do not necessarily need to be deleted, but those have no use except when they are falsely used to represent the empire's official flag at the respective times. Unlike the evidently fictitious flags like File:Flag of the Otomans (Empire Total War).svg, they have no possible educational use other than to mislead, hence need to be deleted per Commons policy.--Orwellianist (talk) 02:58, 12 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Kept all but one All but the last of these are in use in more than ten articles on various WPs. Commons policy prohibits deletion of in-use images except for copyvio. You say they are all fictitious (and I think you are probably correct), but the editors on the WPs see value in keeping them in articles. I have deleted the last one because it is not in use. .     Jim . . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 14:48, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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