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 was no consensus, defaulting to keep. Can't sleep, clown will eat me 07:18, 25 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia is not Commons Zgo!! 10:12, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

• Move to WikiProject Numismatics. This sort of page is probably very useful for people working on articles related to coins. —ptk✰fgs 10:46, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Move or delete per above. MER-C 12:29, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep: encyclopedic information that is necessarily graphics intensive, just like the gallery of flags. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:18, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Comment Please discuss at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of Africa coins
• Keep. This is the third nomination, previous two nominations both concluded as keep. As per my previous argument, this is not the random image gallery prohibited by WP:NOT, there is encyclopedic text (see banknote) and this gallery is a perfectly fine fork from that article which illustrates the concept. hateless 17:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep — This article and the other like it have been nominated by a user whose first edit was today and involved deleting articles. All of these articles have been created and approved by members of the Numismatics Project and provide encyclopedic information. – Zntrip 21:32, 18 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep, per my reasoning at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallery of Africa coins and previous precedent. Titoxd^(?!?) 01:08, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Move to Commons - it's just a collection of pictures! --Anthonycfc (Talk to Me) ^{(s) (e)} 20:45 19/Oct/2006 (UTC)
• Keep per Zntrip and Tito Joe I 23:15, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
• Strong keep or move:

(Since people still vote everywhere and ignore my suggestion of pooling the discussion in one place, I'm gonna do the same)

• Usefulness: It goes without saying that an overview of all images are extremely useful to editors. And it is not just for the editors. When sectioned and captioned properly, interested readers can have a nice view of various things, e.g. evolution, similarities, subtle differences, etc. And ironically, while I support keeping the galleries, I must say that the gallery is useful for spotting duplicates, and further, for deletion of duplicate images. Categories simply sort the images by name and that is not very useful.
• Policy: See Wikipedia:Galleries. Just because it is a gallery does not guarantee a deletion. There are Gallery of the Kings and Queens of Great Britain and Gallery of sovereign-state flags and from the gallery of flag, there are links to even more galleries.
• Format: The policy states that the gallery must be captioned and provide links. See Gallery of banknotes, there are links to the individual currency articles. And links to the gallery? If you look closely at Template talk:Infobox Currency, you'll find that the infobox is perfectly capable of linking to the galleries. The only reason why linking to gallery is not deployed is because I don't feel the gallery pages are not organized enough yet. I am perfectly willing and able to work on those. All in all, deletion is not the solution to these short comings.
• Cost: Gallery of banknotes is too large and it should be broken down. That I agree. However, there are a number of ways to break these down. I am still debating on this. But one thing is for sure. I don't think there should be "gallery of circulating ...", as the status of circulation can be hard to determine sometimes and it changes over time. See User talk:Searchme/Archive 2#Gallery of *** coins. The opening question for me is where to draw the borders.

--ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 14:10, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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.