Talk:Alabama Highway Patrol

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External links modified
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IP repeatedly removing list of fallen officers
There is an IP editor that has repeatedly removed the list of fallen officers, erroneously invoking WP:MEMORIAL. WP:MEMORIAL says that "Subjects of encyclopedia articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability requirements. Wikipedia is not the place to memorialize deceased friends, relatives, acquaintances, or others who do not meet such requirements."   This editor repeatedly removed the list of deceased officers using multiple IPs using this false rationale. The subject of the article is Alabama Highway Patrol which clearly meets Wikipedia's notability requirements. Please stop removing this list under this mistaken interpretation of the policy. If you don't think that the list belongs here for other reasons, please discuss it here and gain consensus before removing it yet again. Toddst1 (talk) 22:14, 5 April 2017 (UTC)


 * What about "Subjects of encyclopedia articles must satisfy Wikipedia's notability requirements. Wikipedia is not the place to memorialize deceased friends, relatives, acquaintances, or others who do not meet such requirements" don't you understand???? The list of fallen officers is nothing but a memorial to friends, relatives, acquaintances, or others who do not meet notability requirements.
 * This matter has already been discussed at WikiProject Law Enforcement, where the consensus was that a list of the deaths of non-notable officers is a memorial that should not be included in a police department article. After all, we don't have lists of fallen teachers in school articles, lists of fallen medical personnel in hospital articles, or lists of fallen inmates in prison articles. 32.218.152.189 (talk) 07:33, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * As was explained above but apparenty not read, the subject of this article is the AHP, not the fallen officers.   The individual officers do not have to pass WP:BIO as they are not the subject of the article.  Beyond that, listing their deaths in the line of duty is hardly a memorial.
 * This discussion clearly states that there was a discussion and nothing was resolved.  If such discussion took place and consensus reached, please provide a link.  Toddst1 (talk) 17:58, 17 April 2017 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia is not the place to memorialize deceased friends, relatives, acquaintances, or others who do not meet such [notability] requirements. If you insist on not seeing the forest for the trees, then consider that the subject of the section is the memorial to deceased officers. Or you could just continue to close your mind and try not to understand. For some people, that's the best way to handle things. Cheers!  32.218.35.76 (talk) 14:27, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
 * No consensus to point to at WikiProject Law Enforcement. Got it.  Toddst1 (talk) 14:56, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
 * All this requires is an elementary understanding of basic English: Wikipedia is not the place to memorialize deceased friends, relatives, acquaintances, or others who do not meet such [notability] requirements. Which word(s) don't you understand? 32.218.47.203 (talk) 00:52, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
 * To help you out of your WP:REHASH cycle, let me try it this way:  Merely having a list does not constitute a memorial.  Does List of Canadian correctional workers who have died in the line of duty constitute a memorial?  No. It doesn't. It's merely a list.
 * The two points of WP:MEMORIAL are that the subject of a biographical article should be notable and that Wikipedia is not the place to publish an obituary of an otherwise non-notable person.  Toddst1 (talk) 19:53, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20101124111458/http://annistonstar.com/view/full_story/2746471/article-The-Death-of-Jimmie-Lee-Jackson?instance=special to http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/2746471/article-The-Death-of-Jimmie-Lee-Jackson?instance=special
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20101206164240/http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/4767145/article-FBI-says-ex-trooper-s-1966-jail-killing-probed to http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/4767145/article-FBI-says-ex-trooper-s-1966-jail-killing-probed
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20101206164240/http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/4767145/article-FBI-says-ex-trooper-s-1966-jail-killing-probed to http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/4767145/article-FBI-says-ex-trooper-s-1966-jail-killing-probed

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Troops/jurisdiction
@SGT141 added an image with an organizational layout for this highway patrol years ago, and some time later an IP editor added the table to the page which appears (though I have not verified each county) to mirror in text what the map shows in an image. However, no source for these statements appears to be provided, and a quick review of the homepage for the highway patrol doesn't appear to show any evidence of this organizational structure. Does anyone have a link/source to the AHP using this structure/organization? —Locke Cole • t • c 18:42, 30 April 2023 (UTC)