Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Parkland Fire Company

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The result was Speedily deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement. Michig (talk) 07:49, 31 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Parkland Fire Company[edit]

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Article is entirely unreferenced and written in the form of a flowery essay, not an encyclopedia article. No evidence this volunteer fire department in a borough of 1,622 people has received significant coverage in reliable, independent sources. Hirolovesswords (talk) 03:47, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:35, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. NORTH AMERICA¹⁰⁰⁰ 09:36, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

delete as essay on just another fire station. Mangoe (talk) 12:11, 16 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Clearly meets WP:GNG. Googling "Parkland Fire Company" yields 7 news results, 4000+ web, umpteen images... There must be much more in newspaper archives; fifty plus years of the stations existence was during the time before the internet. AfD is not cleanup. Incidentally, the article was about to have a WP:GOCE copyedit; that's on hold due to this AfD (diff) -Arb. (talk) 00:02, 19 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Natg 19 (talk) 23:55, 23 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as WP:Copyvio from www.parklandfire.com/history. That site has been up since 2003 and the first edit to this article, back in 2007, looked pretty much like a copypaste job (compare to 2006 version of said webpage). There haven't been any substantial edits since. Even if it wasn't, I don't think this meets WP:GNG or WP:ORG. I can't find any indepth independent sources. Those on Google are incidental mentions; I actually get 9 news results - all pointing to routine reports that 'this fire company attended a fire', and under 4,000 Ghits. It exists, but that doesn't go to show how it's notable. Fuebaey (talk) 05:26, 30 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure how I missed that. I've nominated it for speedy deletion as an unambiguous copyright infringement. --Hirolovesswords (talk) 00:00, 31 March 2015 (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.