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For an example, what if US person appears on Australian stamp. Should I mark this somehow? —Preceding unsigned comment added by St220 ( talk • contribs) 19:06, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
There seems to be a prominent country missing from this list i.e. United Kingdom. Not being in anyway shape or form a stamp collector or enthusiast I can't add it with authority.
The only reason the UK isn't there is that it is normally under G in alphabetical. "United States" comes before A in most American alphabetical sources. If you want all the British monarchs, I can pay attention to the stamps of Barbuda. Eclecticology
I've added the first pic to this article, have a look at Barbados. It was done with my Epson flat-bed scanner. I'll try to find some more people pics but my stamp collection is very small. Anyone else with a scanner can just copy my code. I uploaded two pics, one at 250 pixels wide for the "thumbnail" (a big thumb!) and one at 500 pixels wide for the one you get when you click on the message.
I (or anyone else) can put the date of issue into the caption if someone knows it.
Arpingstone 21:53 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
So, uh, this list is going to be huge when it gets completely filled in. Is it better to just keep growing it until it has to break, or to plan some sort of multiple article layout? Stan Shebs 22:06 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
I've just added a scan of an Australian stamp commemorating the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the Second in 1953. Hope you like it.
Arpingstone 23:22 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)
Shouldn't this be at a list of people who appear on stamps or something similar? -- ヤギ
Can someone revert my deletion? (Blushes) It was an accident, a browser gone bad.
I propose to change the inclusion rule to omit any dead countries that never featured any persons on their stamps, and to prune the entries for countries with separate lists down to the single link. An alpha-TOC would not come amiss either. Stan 06:34, 25 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Not that anybody cares :-), but inspired by list of people on stamps of Papua New Guinea, I'm thinking we should do this in general - separate list articles for each live country, and group preceding dead countries as sublists of the present-day one. Dead countries not fitting this scheme neatly can have their own articles, but won't be too many of those. Stan 05:51, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
I've created a new design at List of people on stamps/Temp. With some 700-odd stamp-issuing entities and most of them having depicted people at one point or another, I think we have to bite the bullet and make it a relatively spare list of lists. To forestall a deluge of tiny lists, I propose to continue with the current practice of redirecting most former colonies to the list of people for the modern country, and maybe have lists like list of people on stamps of the British Empire for any "leftovers". On the off chance that anybody cares :-), I'll wait a week for comments. Stan 14:58, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I have a couple of questions: Question 1: I'm putting together lists of people on the stamps of Ukraine and Israel. I'm pretty sure most people would consider David and Solomon to be real people, and their likenesses (in the form of stained glass) are on stamps from Israel. However, what about Noah, or Jonah? While these people are real to me, I'm also sure that is not the case with many readers of Wikipedia. Should they be in the list?
Question 2: As regards works of art. It is noted that "the depiction of a work of art (such as for a Christmas stamp) is not considered to be honoring the artist." What about a work of art on a stamp that was specifically issued to commemorate the artist. The stamp I'm thinking of is Scott #25 (Painting: Negev) on a stamp specifically honoring Reuven Rubin. Should this be included since the artist is not incendental, but rather the focus of the issue?
fiat lux 20:54, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
This article should probably deleted. It has no sourcing for the dates it gives. Basically this is a category with unsourced dates. A well sourced article on general trends of who has been put on postage stamps might have merit, but this article is not that and probably never will be. Especially now that it is shrinking as the other lists get deleted. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 03:58, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
User:Johnpacklambert please do not delete the red links, please see WP:REDLINKS red links are a good thing, not something to be deleted. CT55555 ( talk) 13:00, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
In general, a red link should remain in an article if it links to a title that could plausibly sustain an article, but for which there is no existing article, or article section, under any name. Remove red links if and only if Wikipedia should not have an article on the subject.CT55555 ( talk) 13:01, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
This name implies that the list is of all countries that put people on their stamps. This is not what this list is. It is a list of countries for which we have articles on the people on their postage stamps. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 18:33, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Closely connected with the above problem is the listed dates. These appear to be the years the countries in question issued stamps. For a matching of the heading, we should only list years in which countries issues stamps with people on them. That may be almost the same, but someone needs to make sure it is actually the same. John Pack Lambert ( talk) 18:33, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
Are these meant to be cases of people who are real? Or do fictional people belong on such lists? John Pack Lambert ( talk) 18:33, 30 June 2022 (UTC)