Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Girard, OH Fire Department

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The result was Nomination withdrawn (non-admin closure), because it has become impossible to debate the merits of the article in question due to the blatant disruption of the AfD process. Ecoleetage (talk) 11:03, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Girard, OH Fire Department

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Local fire department, of no particular notability beyond the poor folks in Girard, Ohio, whose homes are burning. Options can include deletion (as the article fails WP:N and WP:RS, or merging or redirecting to the Girard, Ohio. Ecoleetage (talk) 02:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Nomination withdrawn In view of the outrageous disruption of the article's debate, I have no choice but to withdraw the nomination. Ecoleetage (talk) 11:03, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

I would also like to nominate other articles in the same category as it which are equally non-notable (or make no attempt to assert notability):

1. Beaver Township Fire Department
2. Fredericktown Community Fire District
3. Youngstown Fire Department
4. Bella Vista Fire Department
5. Bristol, Connecticut Fire Department
6. Chicago Fire Department
7. Clark County Fire Department
8. Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department
9. East County Fire & Rescue
10. Fire Departments in Delaware
11. Glenville Fire Department
12. Honolulu Fire Department
13. Lincoln Fire & Rescue Department
14. Memphis Fire Services
15. Muskogee Fire Department
16. Nashville Fire Department
17. Noroton Heights Fire Department
18. Providence Fire Department
19. Seattle Fire Department
20. Tess Corners Fire Department
21. Unified Fire Authority (Utah)
22. Vicksburg Fire Department
23. Wayne Township Fire Department
24. West Pulaski Fire Department
25. Zoneton Fire Protection District
26. Webbs Mills Fire Department
27. Pasadena Volunteer Fire Department
28. Virginia Beach Fire Department
29. Milwaukee Fire Department
30. Dublin Fire Brigade
31. Mumbai Fire Brigade
32. Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service
33. Romanian General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations
34. Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service
35. Anaheim Fire Department
36. Bakersfield Fire Department
37. Brea Fire Department
38. Costa Mesa Fire Department
39. Fullerton Fire Department
40. Holy Jim Fire Department
41. Huntington Beach Fire Department
42. Laguna Beach Fire Department
43. Los Angeles County Fire Department
44. Los Angeles Fire Department
45. Menlo Park Fire Department
46. Newport Beach Fire Department
47. Oakland Fire Department
48. Orange County Fire Authority
49. Orange Fire Department
50. Presidio Fire Department
51. Riverside Fire Department
52. Sacramento Fire Department
53. San Diego Fire-Rescue Department
54. San Francisco Fire Department
55. San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District
56. Santa Ana Fire Department
57. University of California, Davis Fire Department
58. University of California, Santa Cruz Fire Department
59. Ventura County Fire Department
60. Broward County Sheriff's Office
61. Chaires-Capitola Volunteer Fire Department
62. Coral Springs Fire Department
63. Miami Fire Department
64. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department
65. Orange County Fire Rescue
66. Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue
67. Palm Harbor Fire Rescue
68. Seminole County Fire Department
69. Tallahassee Fire Department
70. Tampa Fire Department
71. Fire Departments in Maryland
72. Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service (Maryland)
73. Rockville (Maryland) Volunteer Fire Department
74. White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company
75. Bayport Fire Department
76. Beekman Fire District
77. Binghamton Fire Department
78. Border City Fire Department
79. East Fishkill Fire District
80. East Meadow Fire Department
81. Great River Fire Department
82. Haverstraw Fire Department
83. Lakeside Fire Rescue Company
84. Levittown Fire Department
85. North Bellmore Fire Department
86. Seaford Fire Department
87. Snyder fire department
88. Vista Fire Department
89. Wantagh Fire Department
90. Organization of the New York City Fire Department
91. Flourtown Fire Company
92. Fort Washington Fire Company
93. Kimberton Fire Company
94. Parkland Fire Company
95. Penn Hills Fire Service
96. Philadelphia Fire Department
97. Pittsburgh Fire Bureau
98. Pottstown Fire Department
99. Rosedale Volunteer Fire Department
100. South Media Fire Co.
101. Union Fire Company
102. West Lake Fire Department
103. Baytown Fire Department

There are a lot more of these, and if anyone else wants me to add the rest of them, they should leave me a note on my talkpage, as I don't want to spend all night nominating more of these if the community thinks it is out of line. --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 03:51, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

• Merge the significant content in each to their respective location pages, if any, or their respective page on fire services in the area. Each of these pages share significant similarity to many others in the same way that local histories of hamlets are frequently interchangeable (not quite all the same, but very close) but even more so, and the information would best be summarized in fire department with local details left to the locale pages. I have not listed articles which would be undue weight if merged. --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 03:51, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
• Delete or merge' Many seem fake, regardless not notable Testmasterflex (talk) 04:25, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
• Comment A 100-plus-article mass nomination is never a good thing. A number of these departments serve major metropolitan areas and could easily be proven notable. The Chicago Fire Department, for example, has been the subject of multiple books ([1], [2], etc) and thousands of newspaper articles. Zagalejo^^^ 04:53, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
  • I don't particularly like it either, but I think we're dealing with the same question with the vast bulk of these. Anyone is free to vote "delete all except chicago fire department or the like if they don't think an item on this list should be included. That one specifically, I thought, didn't have enough useful information to not be included in Chicago. --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 04:57, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
    • The Chicago Fire Department article is easily expandable, though. We might as well just leave it where it is. Zagalejo^^^ 09:09, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

• Keep and Object. I have serious problems with this mass deletion nomination process. This really is not the best way to go about doing this as it makes it impossible to evaluate each article fairly on an individual level. A number of good articles might get deleted unecessarily this way. I request that this on mass AFD be withdrawn.Nrswanson (talk) 05:20, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

• Speedy close this mass nomination makes it impossible to fairly evaluate all the articles on there merits. I spot checked some, many were stubs but some were medium length articles with good cites. - Icewedge (talk) 05:40, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

• Close. Far too many articles listed to effectively judge their merits. Maxamegalon2000 05:48, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
  • We could redact all but the first fire department from the list and vote on each of them individually, as well. I just thought that, on the other extreme, the process would be immense, but it seems from this discussion that it would be warranted. I invite anyone who agrees with this to redact the list or reduce it to a handful (or leave a message on my talkpage requesting I do so). --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 05:59, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

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.