Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John S. Gardiner

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The result was redirect to Brockville Police Service. Any sourced and relevant content can be merged from the history. Sandstein 09:13, 17 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

John S. Gardiner[edit]

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Police chiefs are not inherently notable. Unable to locate verifiable sources to establish notability. jsfouche ☽☾Talk 14:41, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. — —Tom Morris (talk) 16:42, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions. — —Tom Morris (talk) 16:42, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete or merge to Brockville Police Service. I agree with the nom that the subject is not independently notable, however, I think the history sections of police department pages should make note of their chiefs. Location (talk) 16:57, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or merge. Police chief of a small town is not an inherently notable position. Pburka (talk) 20:18, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of People-related deletion discussions. — • Gene93k (talk) 20:33, 9 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. Police chiefs of large forces are inherently notable, but Brockville is much too small to fall into this category. To put it into perspective, I live in a similar-sized town in England and the police station there is commanded by a sergeant! Nobody is likely to consider him notable enough for an article. Just because American and Canadian cities have independent police departments does not automatically make their chiefs notable. -- Necrothesp (talk) 08:49, 11 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Merge/delete per others. Johnbod (talk) 00:17, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - its a matter of opinion I guess. but i feel like this person has reached the needed notability to be included in the wikipedia.--BabbaQ (talk) 20:01, 16 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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