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File:Form_of_government.png

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this is a heavily outdated (and low quality) copy the SVG file we already have. Maintenance of several equal maps is nearly impossible, this important and difficult issue should be more centralized Antemister (talk) 19:02, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Kept: in use Jcb (talk) 10:11, 17 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

This deletion discussion is now closed. Please do not make any edits to this archive. You can read the deletion policy or ask a question at the Village pump. If the circumstances surrounding this file have changed in a notable manner, you may re-nominate this file or ask for it to be undeleted.

File:Form_of_government.png

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Removed all uses in any languages. It can be deleted now Antemister (talk) 21:27, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  •  Keep It is still in use in a Commons Gallery and on two archive pages. We do not generally delete obsolete maps, merely mark them so that potential users can find the preferred alternative.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 23:45, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    • I've really tried to find any guidelines that defines the decision to not delete obsolete maps. I often feel that obsolete maps makes finding the _real_ map harder due to the forest of obsolete maps hides the non-obsolete tree. →AzaToth 23:55, 11 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
I agree that they can be a nuisance -- which is one reason we have galleries parallel to very large categories. I may have overstated the case above -- we can certainly delete things that are clearly redundant or of low quality -- cases where they are virtual duplicates of better files. That may be the case here.
Where it gets tricky is if the map is obsolete not because there is a better version of the same data, but because it is out of date -- for example, it shows East and West Germany. Those maps should not be deleted, although they should have file names that shows their applicability.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 17:03, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Obsolete files are kept for documentary porposes, as often those obsolete files are the source of the new, better version. In other cases, those files should be deleted, in order to have better arranged categories and less work in updating the files. That is the case here: Maintaining of this map virtually ceased after the SVG was created. We do not know if the map shows the situation for a specific date, we do not know if it was already outdated at the date it was updated for the last time. It is not the source for the SVG, because that was created according to en:List of countries by system of government. Creating such maps for 1950, 1960, 1970 and so one is one of my long-term-projects.--Antemister (talk) 17:25, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
PS: Is anyone able to remove it from the gallery? I do not know how the edit the strange template there.--Antemister (talk) 17:26, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Delete I have put File:Forms of government.svg in its place in the gallery. I think we can ignore the two archives.      Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk to me) 23:36, 12 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
 Keep Useful educational image. Will people learn that Commons is not a repository of files for Wikipedia, but rather repository of free educational images. The fact that you have removed all uses on Wikipedia, does not mean it will not be useful to sites outside of these projects, and many sites do not work with SVG but use PNG instead. You should use supercedes tag and link to SVG, but keep this version. Beta M (talk) 06:20, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
There are automatically created PNG version of every SVG files...--Antemister (talk) 18:28, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Having thought about this i'm now between Neutral and Very weak keep. If it's kept, the note of supersession should be added on the file's page, making it easy for users of commons. Beta M (talk) 19:08, 15 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted. -FASTILY (TALK) 09:41, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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