Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Durham Fire Department

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The result was delete. Vanamonde (talk) 13:06, 24 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Durham Fire Department[edit]

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Poorly sourced article about a municipal fire department. As always, fire departments exist in virtually every city or town and do the same things everywhere, so they aren't all extended an automatic notability freebie just because they exist -- the key to making a fire department notable enough for a Wikipedia article is reliably sourcing some genuinely substantive content about what makes it unique, not just stating that exists and then cataloguing its fire trucks into a trainspotter directory. But this, as written, can't even claim to pass WP:GNG, as the only references being cited here at all are governmental primary sources, not reliable or independent ones. Bearcat (talk) 23:58, 16 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 04:27, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom.Vorbee (talk) 15:41, 17 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 02:22, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 02:22, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It is not necessary to be unique in order to be notable. It's irrelevent that fire departments exist all over the world. Rathfelder (talk) 22:02, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Don't understand what is special with this fire department . Fails GNG Alex-h (talk) 22:46, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Keep There are existing articles on fire departments that are comparable in size and notability to the Durham Fire department here, here, and a x10 smaller Dept., there is also a Durham Police Department article. This is one of the biggest fire departments in North Carolina that serves a city of over a quarter million people. It is certainly notable enough for an article. I'm still working on fleshing out the history and and other details about the department in the article and I'm going to be adding a more diverse source list. ForDisplayOnly (talk) 01:32, 24 December 2018 (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.