Commons:Deletion requests/Category:Noto Sans SignWriting
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Category:Noto Sans SignWriting
[edit]- Reason for Deletion
- Not Educationally Useful
The files do not align with Wikimedia Commons’ purpose of hosting media that supports educational, informational, or documentary needs. Specifically:
- Non-Adherence to Unicode Standards: Some images and filenames do not adhere to Unicode standards for SignWriting, particularly with facial diacritics. These require a prefix of U+1D9FF in the character sequence or a dotted circle as a placeholder for the head. This misrepresentation risks misleading users about proper implementation.
- Limited Educational Value of Static Images: Static images of an incomplete font are less effective than dynamically rendering proper Unicode sequences using CSS or other methods, which allow for updates and maintain accuracy.
- Developmental Issues: The Noto SignWriting font is still under development, with documented design flaws and inconsistencies. An independent review scored the font 6/10, citing readability concerns compared to the International SignWriting Alphabet 2010. The reviewer has started logging issues on the font’s GitHub page.
- Maintenance Burden: As the Noto SignWriting font evolves, these files will require reviewing and potentially recreating over 30,000 images, an impractical and unsustainable task.
- Relevant References
- Review Commentary
- Review Score of 6/10.
- Additional Review Issues.
- Issues Raised About Noto-SignWriting Font on GitHub.
- Proposed Alternative
Promote the use of CSS or other dynamic rendering methods to display SignWriting using Unicode-compliant sequences. This approach ensures accuracy and flexibility as the Noto-SignWriting font matures. --Slevinski (talk) 19:12, 6 December 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose. Some of these images are in use on Wikimedia projects. Per policy they cannot be deleted based on the reasons indicated above. Ruslik (talk) 20:30, 7 December 2024 (UTC)
Kept: no valid reason for deletion, and withdrawn. --Yann (talk) 10:52, 8 December 2024 (UTC)