Commons:Deletion requests/Files in Category:Fictional flags with hammer and sickle

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Files in Category:Fictional flags with hammer and sickle

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Out of scope: as the category name implies, these flags are all fictional. Some are imaginary flags of countries which were never members of the Soviet Union; others are flags of countries which don't exist at all. A couple of these images are in use on sandboxes and/or talk pages (in one case because an image was included in a user's signature!), but none of them have any substantial use in content.

Omphalographer (talk) 23:59, 22 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Oppose – as per w:WP:SOCIAL some thing belong also to the community and therefore may be use on non-article pages (such as userpages) --Oren neu dag (talk) 01:23, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Can you specify which images you're referring to here? Most of these images are completely unused, even on non-content pages. Omphalographer (talk) 01:45, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
These are the files are in usage as of the the time of writing these words:
--Oren neu dag (talk) 02:28, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Most of those images are in use by fantasy or hoax content in userspace. Supporting these "articles" is expressly not a goal of Commons.
File:Flag of Soviet Canuckistan.svg is referenced on a number of talk pages because a user on enwiki included that image in their signature for a short period in 2008. Using images in signatures is strongly discouraged across all projects. Omphalographer (talk) 04:37, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Again... wiki is also a community... you want to delete something – we can settle on deleting the unused ones, while keeping those that are in use.
Does that seem like a fair settlement? Oren neu dag (talk) 15:22, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep Which policy says that fictional flags are to be deleted? Andy Dingley (talk) 12:39, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's well established that fictitious flags - that is, flags which aren't real flags, and which aren't part of any notable work of fiction - are considered out of scope on Commons. That's what all of these images are. Omphalographer (talk) 16:58, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's well established {{Cn}}
The fact we have one editor who obsessively lists them for deletion doesn't set policy. Andy Dingley (talk) 20:42, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted: per nomination. .     Jim . . . (Jameslwoodward) (talk to me) 22:17, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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