Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cherrybrook Rural Fire Brigade


 * 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   speedy delete. Copyvio StarM  04:20, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Cherrybrook Rural Fire Brigade

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I am nominating this article on the Cherrybrook Rural Fire Brigade for deletion because there are no reliable, published sources (Reliable sources) that can be used to verify the content of this article (Verifiability) and demonstrate that the subject of the article meets either the general notability inclusion guideline (Notability) or the more specific notability inclusion guidelines for organisations (Notability (organizations and companies)).

I also observe that no serious content contributions have been made to the article since November 2006, the only edits since then have been grammar tweaks or cleanup tagging, and that the current content would be better suited for the organisation's own website (What Wikipedia is not and What Wikipedia is not), but understand that these in themselves are secondary to the issue of lack of verification.

On searching Google News for possible articles (i.e. this search for [Cherrybrook fire -canton (because results are being picked up for a volunteer fire fighting unit on Cherry Brook Road in North Canton, Ohio, which is a long way from Cherrybrook, New South Wales), I have found that most of the articles referring to the unit are behind paywalls. All of these articles are from local level newspapers, and most of these appear to be passing mentions (either loosely connecting the unit to a fire or other event... "A fire truck from Cherrybrook attended the scene.", or loosely connecting the subject of an article to the unit as part of a 'local citizen of the week'-type piece) or notification of events (such as open days, fundraising activities, etc). The National Library of Australia has records for a history book, but according to the bibliograhic data given, this book is self-published by the unit and as such is not a reliable source.

I mean no disrespect to the people of this organisation: some of my relatives are volunteer firefighters, and I know the valuable work they do. I am also not contesting the notability or verifiability of the New South Wales Rural Fire Service. However, I believe that this article does not meet Wikipedia policy and as such should be deleted. -- saberwyn 06:25, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Australia-related deletion discussions.   —-- saberwyn 21:31, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Delete. The timing of this AfD could have been better, but the article does not meet the criteria set out in Notability (organizations and companies). WWGB (talk) 22:58, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * My apologies on the timing. I nominated it on the same day I found it. -- saberwyn 23:02, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Delete. While the Rural Fire Service as a single entity is notable, there's nothing notable or encyclopaedic about each individual branch.-- Lester  23:24, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


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