Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Police office

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 Police station. Yunshui ^雲 _水 13:02, 13 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Police office[edit]

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DICDEF, not all general terms for police jurisdictions and subdivisions are notable. Cites no sources. Vague title. Even when the term "police office" is used online, it isn't in this way. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 02:36, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Kpgj hpjm 04:05, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

DELETE - Obviously a dictionary definition. Hansen Sebastian^Talk 09:08, 30 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. — Mr. Guye (talk) (contribs) 03:13, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Keep. Both this and police detachment satisfy GNG easily and by a wide margin. There might be scope for merger with similar units, such as precinct or station, but this is obviously notable. This article is certainly capable of being expanded beyond a definition. If you search for "police office shall" or "police office may" and cognate expressions such as "must" for example, you find a considerable body of legislation from several countries relating to how the law requires a police office to be run. There is also a lot of commentary in treatises etc. Likewise on a search for "police office"+magistrate. The expression "police office" does seem to be a term of art. James500 (talk) 00:39, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:28, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Not even worth a redirect. —Мандичка^YO 😜 04:33, 6 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- In all fairness, "not even worth a redirect" is absurd. This is a very likely search term. James500 (talk) 11:07, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Delete or redirect to ~~Police~~ Police station. "Police office" might be notable as a topic, but probably not when referring to a "form of division of a geographical area patrolled by a police force". As it stands, this article isn't useful, doesn't actually refer to the concept many people think of as a "police office", and would be a dictionary definition if it does refer to the correct concept. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 03:29, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- A better target for redirection would be Police station. Deletion would certainly violate WP:ATD and WP:R as this is obviously a plausible redirect. James500 (talk) 11:07, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
  - You're right that Police station is the best redirect target, and I've changed accordingly. Kevin (aka L235 · t · c) 19:43, 7 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Delete and redirect to Police station. The article is virtually empty, so there's nothing in the edit history worth preserving. Reyk _YO! 13:16, 8 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect to police station. No point deleting for the sake of deleting. Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 10:13, 9 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Redirect - (to Police station) This is an unwarranted article that currently doesn't have independent notability and is a duplicative CONTENTFORK. I can't see why there are delete !votes that say no redirect. It is a possible search term, no damage is inflicted, and as the cliche goes - redirects are cheap. Nosebagbear (talk) 10:47, 13 August 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.