Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fairbury Police Department (Nebraska)

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 Delete all. except for Morrill County Sheriff's Office (Nebraska) Courcelles 02:27, 7 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Fairbury Police Department (Nebraska)[edit]

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Following on from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Albion Police Department (Nebraska), the same user has created this and a number of stubs on various Law enforcement bodies in Nebraska which will almost certainly just remain Wikipedia:Permastub, individually these organisations are not notable and with only directory style information should be deleted :

I am also nominating :

I am going to nominate Friend Police Department (Nebraska) as a separate AfD as it makes a claim for significance (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Friend Police Department (Nebraska)). Codf1977 (talk) 06:14, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Maybe merge into a Law enforcement in Nebraska article that is accompanied with more encyclopedic information. --NortyNort (Holla) 07:27, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per nom, and per WP:NOTDIR. ɠǀɳ̩ςεΝɡbomb 08:15, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nom and per the other discussions on this precise topic. Shadowjams (talk) 08:54, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete and do not merge, as none of them includes any remotely enyclopedic content whatsoever. I really can't imagine what the author was thinking. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 13:08, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Nebraska-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:10, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 18:10, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge each to the respective article of the area (county, municipality, census-defined area) it serves. The content is perfectly fine and appropriate for those jurisdiction articles per WP:NNC, but I do not see a need for individual articles for these departments. Jclemens (talk) 18:44, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all per nom and WP:NOTDIR. Clearly not notable enough for their own articles. If these get deleted, the related category (Category:Law enforcement agencies of Nebraska) will probably need to go as well. There does not appear to be much information in these articles to merge anywhere. The bunch of articles I looked at basically consist of a single sentence which asserts that the police department exists. "The XYZ Police Department is a municipal police agency operating in Nebraska." How are you going to merge that into the city/municipality article? Thanks to the nominator for taking the (significant amount of) time to clean up WP. SnottyWong ^prattle 19:29, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Merge each I tend to agree with User:Jclemens. They should have been built in a better place and when they could stand as their own Article, then be spun out. (although I do conceed that during a merge ... there may be nothing to merge so the the same effect as a delete/redir ) Exit2DOS ^{• Ctrl • Alt • Del} 19:35, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep Morrill County Sheriff's Office (Nebraska). I picked this one at random to see if it had potential to be more than a stub. I was surprised. If you are voting delete/merge see if you can de-stub another. Rich Farmbrough, 20:55, 31 August 2010 (UTC).[reply]
- Heh! That's nothing. I've just found a history professor who has decided to study Lincoln County Sheriff's Office (Nebraska) (AfD discussion) and the other law enforcers in Lincoln County in depth. ☺ Uncle G (talk) 02:01, 1 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Keep or Merge each User:Rich Farmbrough just made this difficult by improving Wikipedia (Hey!). Morrill County Sheriff's Office (Nebraska) is a perfectly fine standalone article but could also be merged into the county article. I don't know if the others have anything more than an external link (like the couple I looked at) but even that should probably be merged into the corresponding county article as opposed to deleted and the resulting redirects wouldn't be ridiculous. Sounds like a job for a bot? Abby Kelleyite (talk) 23:52, 31 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete all (addendum: ....except for Morrill County) and no merge. There is no inherent notability for police and sheriff's departments. Most, if not all of these, were created in one evening [1], one after another, and then abandoned; I have no reason to believe that the person who produced all of these articles will assist in the task of merging the content of each of these articles to the respective county, city or town pages. If anything, I think that it simply encourages more mass creation of articles. Mandsford 02:28, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
- Your rationale appears to be based upon not even reading the discussion immediately above where you wrote it, let alone the edit history of the article mentioned. Uncle G (talk) 03:17, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
"The article mentioned"? There are eighty more of these being discussed besides the one about the Morrill County Sheriff's Office. I think it's great that you've found someone who wants to try to develop articles about two of the agencies in the last batch, but the idea that all of these should be kept while the search goes on doesn't seem very reasonable to me. Regardless of whether one looks at this as disruptive, or as an opportunity to learn more about a particular county sheriff in Nebraska in the course of "de-stubbing", no policy reason has been advanced to show a reason for keeping stubs about something that doesn't meet our notability guidelines. The fact is, there is no subject-specific notability guideline that presumes that a police department or a sheriff's department is presumed notable. Mandsford 12:55, 3 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Given that Rich Farmbrough has, essentially from scratch, written an actual article about the sheriff's department of Morrill County, Nebraska, that one is not a stub, and should not be judged in the same manner as 80 stubs that make no assertion of notability. I've amended my !vote accordingly. Mandsford 15:44, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

As nominator, I agree with Mandsford and think that Morrill County Sheriff's Office (Nebraska) should not be deleted now. Codf1977 (talk) 15:49, 6 September 2010 (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.