Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of federal police agencies

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Redirect to Law enforcement agency--Aervanath lives in the Orphanage 14:35, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

List of federal police agencies

Reasons for deleting List of federal police agencies:

The article's encyclopedic content was inaccurate, has been fixed, and has been merged with Law enforcement agency as per discussions (with no objections, some agreement, and essentially no interest at all):
The list is a lure for incorrect entries for national agencies instead of federal agencies, and misleading.
The concept of the article is poorly defined and leads to incorrect entries, for example, police are a distinct subset of law enforcement agencies and many of the agencies listed are not police.
The notability of the article is poorly conceived as to the type and level of information. There is no notable material available at the level of federal police or federal law enforcement agency from a world view. Content is either about federal law enforcement agencies generally, not notable in its own right, and has been merged into Law enforcement agency, or if about notable federal law enforcement for a particular country, can and should be included in relevant articles, for example, Law enforcement in Australia, and Federal law enforcement in the United States.
The by country list in this article is misleading because it does not give examples of specific types of federal law enforcement agencies in any sort of encyclopedic context, and practically it can never be even a remotely complete list of such agencies world wide. Lists of federal law enforcement agencies, if notable, can and should be included in articles such as Federal law enforcement in the United States.
Any intent to group federal law enforcement agencies by country has been deprecated by Category:Federal law enforcement agencies, which already includes all the valid (actual) federal law enforcement agencies listed in this article.

When deleted Federal police should redirect to Law enforcement agency#fedlea and List of federal police agencies should redirect to Category:Federal law enforcement agencies.

Peet Ern (talk) 06:56, 4 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

uumm No objection - This looks like a Redir (and not a AFD issue) to me. No loss of "encyclopedic information" would occure as (other than the Lede) there is only 1or2 ~~paragraphs~~ sentences. The current List presents no additional info that the :Cat cannot do just as well. Loss of the Lede is no issue as all info is presented elsewhere. Exit2DOS2000^•T•C• 07:39, 5 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, JForget 22:56, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - if the material from this article was merged to Law enforcement agency, then a REDIRECT is in order per GFDL to maintain edit history. See WP:MERGE. -- Whpq (talk) 16:22, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 23:39, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The list attempts to fit dozens of diverse national jurisdictions under a single template (whether U.S. or imaginary - bur not fitting those other legal systems). Consider, for example, the very first line Federal police agencies are responsible for the enforcement of federal laws in countries with a federal constitution. Now what about those jurisdiction where federal agencies also enforce local laws simply because there no equivalent local police agencies (they all report to a federal agency)? Example: Russian MVD. Should Russia (a federal state) be excluded from the list? or change the definition? go figure. It's an incurable legal mess. NVO (talk) 22:24, 14 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - not a topic that can really be covered as the concept of "federal police" is not comparable from one nation to another --T-rex 00:31, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Delete - what a mess, too many jurisdictions. I agree with NVO and T-rex. Bearian'sBooties (talk) 01:11, 16 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.