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Keep - The non-free issues ought to be dealt with on a per-image basis. Given a cursory lookover, it would appear most of those images are public domain by way of the national laws of the respective countries. Furthermore, where in
WP:NOT are you finding gallery?
Grandmartin11 (
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21:22, 15 July 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep This is the kind of article you would find in a paper encyclopedia. That some images might be non-free is not grounds for deletion of the article.
Edward321 (
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23:37, 16 July 2009 (UTC)reply
Keep. This nomination is yet another example of how image policy wonkery gets in the way of actually making an encyclopedia. Print encyclopedias routinely display exactly this kind of information as color plates --- i.e. "galleries" --- without apparent worry about monopoly franchises. It simply staggers belief that any country that adopts a coat of arms would object to the inclusion of its coat of arms in a gallery showing what it looked like. Any image policy that suggests that this article should not exist requires revision and likely demotion. -
Smerdis of Tlön (
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14:38, 23 July 2009 (UTC)reply
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