Commons:Deletion requests/Files uploaded by ARABCREATOR7

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Out of scope: As a general rule, national flags should not be used to represent languages, as they unavoidably fail to represent minority languages, and are prone to invoking nationalist disputes. Using a single national flag (like that of Saudi Arabia, in this case) to represent the Arabic language is especially problematic, as the language doesn't have a well-defined country of origin.

Omphalographer (talk) 01:32, 4 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]


deleting my files saying "Using a single national flag (like that of Saudi Arabia, in this case) to represent the Arabic language is especially problematic" is strange, What about combined flags like this one? . It's out there in WIKIMEDIA COMMONS and no one deleted it! Is it okay if I combine two flags and ignore all the other countries' flags that speak English like Canada just because I combined two of them? so 1 flag is bad. 2 is good. and 3 is not necessary? what logic is this?


My reasons for choosing the Saudi flag to represent the Arabic language:

  • Saudi Arabia is the largest country in the Arabian Peninsula, which is the recognized homeland of Arabs.
  • The Saudi flag is already used as a symbol for Arabic in countless games, websites, movies, apps, books, etc., so everybody is familiar with it.
  • The other Arab countries have similar colors in their flags (red, white, black), which can be confusing, and it can be difficult to identify which country is which, and is it Arabian or not?. In contrast, Saudi Arabia has a simple and distinctive green flag. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ARABCREATOR7 (talk • contribs) 06:00, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]


my point is: if you gonna delete the files you need to delete this Combined flags too, or give a good explanation. ARABCREATOR7 (talk) 05:34, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Delete Per the nominator. The Arabic language didn't originate in Saudi Arabia and it's not even in the top five countries where the language is spoken. That would go to Egypt, where there's like 4 times as many people who speak Arabic then there are in Saudi Arabia. I think Saudi Arabia is like six or seventh by population who speak the language. So you could just as easily argue it should be the flag of Morocco, Sudan, Algeria, Iraq, or again Egypt. There's nothing particularly special about Saudi Arabia here. --Adamant1 (talk) 21:33, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]


  • I'm not trying to be racist or offend anyone, but among Arabs, you can call someone 'Arab' if they come from Arab tribes and have Arab lineage. Most Arab tribes are found in the Arabian Peninsula, such as the UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia, as well as in small parts of Iraq, Syria, and Jordan. The people in Egypt are Copts and do not have Arab lineage. We love them, but that's the reality; even they know it and agree with me.
    If a Chinese man speaks Arabic, that doesn't make him Arab. And if entire China (1.412 billion people) speaks Arabic, that makes them Arabic speakers, but it doesn't make them Arabs.
    Arabs are tribes, and you find them mostly in the Arabian Peninsula, What's is the biggest country in it? Saudi.
    Otherwise, you wouldn't see famous websites and major companies using the Saudi flag as a symbol for the language without reason, or you will be saying to the world "You all wrong, and i'm right".
    I swear to you that I am neither biased nor racist; I am simply trying to explain why the flags of Egypt or Iraq or Morocco are not used as symbols for the Arabic language. ARABCREATOR7 (talk) 05:23, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I am simply trying to explain why the flags of Egypt or Iraq or Morocco are not used as symbols for the Arabic language. That's because there isn't a flag for the Arabic language in the first place. The only reason there's one in this case is because you created it. There's a reason why if I do a Google search for "flag of Arabic language" most of the results are for Commons or another website for user created flags though. Otherwise you get results like this one to Reddit where there's comments like "I've seen many people use different flags to represent the Arabic language" or "in Israel I saw Arabic represented by the Jordanian flag." This discussion on Quora about which flag represents the Arabic language. To quote from it "there is no flag for the Arabic language." Etc. Etc. The fact is that there is no "flag of the Arabic language" except ones created by users of Commons or similar websites for reason's that are pretty obvious. --Adamant1 (talk) 05:49, 6 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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