Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/West Valley Volunteer Fire Department

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The result was delete. Cirt (talk) 06:58, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

West Valley Volunteer Fire Department[edit]

~~nothing notable or encyclopeadic Hell in a Bucket (talk) 15:30, 11 June 2009 (UTC)~~[reply]

Delete. Sounds like a nice but, non-notable, organization. Niteshift36 (talk) 16:00, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to El Paso County, Texas. Not notable but it is significant within that context. Drawn Some (talk) 16:14, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete I'm not a fan of indexing local level public utilities such as this unless there is an abundance of significant coverage that shows notability outside the local area Corpx (talk) 17:25, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Drawnsome. There appears to be some useful information in all those lists, as well as two decent cites. Bearian (talk) 17:51, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Texas-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 18:04, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 18:04, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Insufficient notability. Purely of local interest. ChildofMidnight (talk) 18:54, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete Not notable. Mrs. Wolpoff (talk) 23:03, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep It hasn't gotten national coverage but it has gotten media coverage in El Paso as evidenced by this, this, and this. Although a blog entry this confirms the previous mention of a local on-air reporter being a firefighter for this department. Furthermore, this search of the El Paso Times archive for the last 180 days turns up three stories, but it requires payment to view the archive. I'm usually a deletionist, but this seems to me to be one that can be saved.Wperdue (talk) 23:23, 11 June 2009 (UTC)wperdue[reply]

I think that those references make the Dept. notable enough to Merge into the El Paso page at the least. However if there is a fundemental rewrite or any further examples of notability can be found in addition to the above the Dept would definitly warrant having it's own page.

merge per Wperdue. to El Paso County, Texas. Not sufficiently notable for a separate article. Sources can be used to add content there. Sources are hardly significant coverage. Dloh cierekim 00:15, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Keep I added information about the WVFD being ISO Class 4 Certified, and about the run stats, and about a big fire that made the news and warranted the responce of a dozen other fire departments. It is a notable department with state certifications for training and responce well above and beyond many other volunteer fire departments, as listed in the article. Information Should Be Free (talk) 00:53, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Merge per Drawn Some, without prejudice to keeping or recreation as an independent article once sufficient coverage is found. We discussed this eventuality here a while ago, and this looks like a great merge candidate. Jclemens (talk) 04:40, 12 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete nothing notable. I suppose we could call it a redirect, but there would be no need for more than a mention. the only event it was engaged in that even made the local news was a single-building fire. DGG (talk) 02:04, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, fire departments are a government function that, although flashier than the dogcatcher, no more notable unless third party sources say so. Abductive (talk) 12:49, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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