User talk:146.163.157.178

February 2017
Hello, I'm 1989. I wanted to let you know that one or more of your recent contributions to Columbia, Illinois have been undone because they did not appear constructive. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. If you think a mistake was made, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. MCMLXXXIX 19:46, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
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Columbia, Illinois
Hi. I've reverted your additions to the above article. Bluntly, details about a local small community fire department are simply not notable. Fire protection is something incorporated communities ate expected to provide their taxpayers. Absent a rich (and well documented in reliable sources, which fire buff sites are not) history, the extent of content regarding the fire department should be limited to one sentence in a larger section about the government stating whether the FD is full time or on-call. It would be much more appropriate to include content on the subject of the fire department if the community lacked one than if it has one. Although Wikipedia's motto is "The encyclopedia anyone can edit", that in no way implies that any and all content is acceptable (the term generally used for material that doesn't belong is "unencyclopedic"). Large city fire departments (think Chicago, not Peoria) have articles about them because much has been written about them. If an article exists on a fire department, content such as you've added to this community's article is acceptable, as the fire department is a notable subject. A small community's fire department in all likelihood will never be notable. One of the pillar policies on Wikipedia is WP:NOT which will help explain what I'm talking about. I'm sorry, as I find firefighting very interesting too. But surely you realize that across the English speaking world (which us our target audience), mist people wouldn't know a truck from an engine. John from Idegon (talk) 00:51, 14 March 2017 (UTC)