User talk:Edgecumbefirebrigade

Edgecumbe volunteer fire brigade
I have deleted this article, since it was an almost direct copy of the Edgecumbe brigade's web site, and therefore a copyright violation. I realise that you might also own the rights to that website, and it would be possible for the copyright issue to be resolved by your putting a GFDL licence on the website, but there is also the issue of whether the brigade is sufficiently notable to have an article on Wikipedia.

The general guidelines on what makes an organisation notable are at Notability (organizations and companies). As far as I am aware, no other New Zealand fire brigade has such an article. I suggest that you not endeavour to rewrite the article, as someone else is likely to delete it again, but that your contributions to Wikipedia might be more valuable in expanding the New Zealand Fire Service article, creating an article on the National Rural Fire Authority, or continuing to add material to the Edgecumbe, New Zealand article.- gadfium 22:12, 28 December 2008 (UTC)