Category talk:Maps about the COVID-19 pandemic

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Mass deletion of low-quality maps

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I propose a mass deletion of low-quality and redundant maps on this category (including its subcategories), and other graphics (e.g. JPEG files) on its sister categories. They are not well maintained, some are not even in use (or never been used), contains original research, and are very complicated. And too colourful! —hueman1 (talk • uploads) 06:24, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

This January 2020 deletion request caught my eye when it reached the enough consensus for deletion, but no action were carried out and instigated. —hueman1 (talk • uploads) 06:32, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Ratherous: I saw that your deletion request for File:2019-nCoV Outbreak World Map.png did not have an outcome. Do you wish to continue the discussion here? —hueman1 (talk • uploads) 07:41, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I definitely support the deletion of low quality files which are pretty much redundant to Wikipedia. I try to nominate them from time to time if I know there are better versions. --Ratherous (talk) 17:52, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
No I oppose this deletionist attitude on Commons. This sort of thing messes up the use of the images. Even if it is not current use, revisions of pages that use the images will be degraded by their removal. Of course it would be better if we never had the low quality image in the first place, but once uploaded and used somewhere it should not then be deleted. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 03:23, 1 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree with User:Graeme Bartlett. I'm not a deletionist personally, as I am firm with de minimis principle regarding FOP issues in Philippines. With regards to the low-quality maps, however, it's such a waste of precious time to update such low-quality maps (worse, some might be in edit-unfriendly .png formats). Remember that .svg formats are much easier to edit, per my conversations with some editors. It would be much better for many Commons contributors to focus on highly-tedious categorization work than maintaining a large-array of hard to edit and/or outdated low quality maps. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 15:06, 4 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Some of these maps are made by user Wograne and made primarily for Russian-language Wikipedia (with legends in Russian). I tried to talk about these files on talk page of article in Russian Wikipedia (why, f.e., he used such uninformative names of files), but I don't get the answer. This question is still being discussed on the talk page in the Russian Wikipedia article in this topic. Yet another user Hunu later made a mass deletion of these files as original reseach. Anyway, some of these files (File:COVID-19 outbreak world map on 27.02.2020 (Russian).png) used in other Wikipedia projects, like Esperanto Wikinews. --Brateevsky {talk} 16:57, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

List of files

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Here is a partial list of files nominated for mass deletion.

Maps

<gallery>File:011111122222BlankMap-World.png File:0111111BlankMap-World.png File:011BlankMap-World.png File:0BlankMap-World.png File:111111111BlankMap-World.png File:2019-nCoV countries.png File:Coronavirus por el mundo v2.png File:COVID-19 outbreak world map on 26.02.2020 (Russian).png File:COVID-19 outbreak world map on 27.02.2020 (Russian).png File:Outbreak-coronavirus-world-large.png File:Sketch-1580170309647.png File:Wuhan cases map.svg File:Wuhan coronavirus outbreak associated travel restrictions (updated).png File:Wuhan coronavirus outbreak associated travel restrictions.png </gallery>

There is also a set of redundant graphics made by @Crisogarci: that I found redundant too. They weren't even used in at least one Wikimedia site! Where are they used
in User:OgreBot/Uploads_by_new_users/2020_March_16_16:30!

@HueMan1 and Ratherous: My opinion these five map graphics must also be deleted, but I want to know your opinions first before proceeding. I feel it would be too tedious to nominate each one of these five graphics.

As for my opinion about redundant, obsolete maps about COVID-19, this has been my stand: I doubt any of wiki projects will ever use hard-to-update "per-day COVID-19 progress maps," and as of this writing many external news agencies, sources, and civic organizations are not using Wikimedia Commons-provided maps, but rather are producing their own maps, like en:Channel NewsAsia or Earth Shaker Philippines. Postscriptum: I'm not a deletionist, especially on issues of Philippine FOP and on de minimis (I tend to save some beautiful skyline pics that passes de minimis, diplomatically thru nomination discussions), but I think Commons is not a place for a bunch of not well maintained and obsolete COVID-19 map graphics. JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 12:27, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with deleting all of them, especially the one you just added. Simply a bunch of redundant, out of scope images for which there is no use. --Ratherous (talk) 23:07, 21 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Ratherous and HueMan1: what are your thoughts on Commons:Deletion requests/File:2019-nCoV countries.png discussion (for the affected file that has now been renamed to File:2019-nCoV countries as of February 1, 2020.png)? According to @Zenwort and Jameslwoodward: such deletion actions are invalid. Maybe also ping the nominator: @A1Cafel: . Addition, I won't nominate the files that I mentioned for now, because I don't want to end up like this: w:Talk:Bocaue, Bulacan, in which I bypassed the centralized discussion of w:Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style/Philippine-related_articles#Revisiting_the_comma_convention_for_article_titles_of_municipalities and took action without consensus, which substantially somehow tarnished my standing reputation there :-( JWilz12345 (Talk|Contrib's.) 13:08, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure why those decisions came out negative and ended up keeping the files as there really is absolutely no use for them. --Ratherous (talk) 18:25, 23 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Colour scheme of density maps

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@Ratherous: Was there a consensus that voted the old colour scheme out (the one used here)? I noticed some inconsistency with density maps because other countries shifted to a different colour scheme (example here). —hueman1 (talk • uploads) 00:58, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure if there was a consensus to use that new scheme on those maps. If there was, I never participated in the discussion. The main maps on the topic still use the original though. --Ratherous (talk) 06:44, 22 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Ratherous: Do you still remember the people participated on the discussion about the colour scheme used in COVID-19 Outbreak World Map.svg? Thanks! —hueman1 (talk • uploads) 10:04, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Ratherous: I started a discussion on the main article: Talk:COVID-19 pandemic#Inconsistent colour schemes. —hueman1 (talk • uploads) 10:21, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
It was moved here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject COVID-19#Best universal colors for maps and graphs? —hueman1 (talk • uploads) 01:12, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
I believe the discussion is still up on the talk page of the main map. I don't think it was archived, so you can definitely check there. I don't remember off the top of my head. --Ratherous (talk) 02:31, 12 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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