Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gallatin County Sheriff's Office


 * 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 delete. See Articles for deletion/Gatlinburg Public Services.  Majorly   (hot!)  21:21, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

Gallatin County Sheriff's Office

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Other articles created by this editor and nominated for deletion include: Nom - not notable; also fails WP:NOT. Rklawton 18:49, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Bristol Tennessee Police Department
 * Cut Bank Police Department
 * Gatlinburg Fire Department
 * Gatlinburg Public Services
 * Kingsport Police Department
 * Pigeon Forge Public Services
 * Roanoke City Sheriff's Office
 * Roanoke County Sheriff's Office
 * Sevier County Sheriff's Office
 * Sullivan County Tennessee Sheriff's Office
 * Delete not notable. janejellyroll 21:52, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, per nom. -- Mufka (user) (talk) (contribs) 00:29, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep. I think that most police departments are written about often enough that multiple independent sources can be found, although this may require a search of the newspapers (which may not have the full text of all back issues online) in the area served by the police department. In this case http://bozemandailychronicle.com/police_reports/ has some free coverage of the Gallatin County Sheriff's Office, but access to the newspaper's full-text E-Chronicle is not free. --Eastmain 01:47, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Question - I can find multiple, independent, verifiable, reliable sources about me, but I don't rate a bio because I'm still not notable. Why is this sheriff's office any different?  Rklawton 02:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Reply. By Wikipedia's definition of the term, you are notable. That doesn't mean that you're famous or a celebrity, but it does mean that there is enough reliable information out there for someone to put together an article about you. That fact doesn't mean that someone will put together an article worth keeping about you, merely that the possibility exists. On that basis, this sheriff's department is as notable as an early 19th-century U.S. senator from Vermont who few people alive today have ever heard of. --Eastmain 02:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Not so - see WP:BIO for specifics. WP:RS and WP:V and even multiple sources are not sufficient to demonstrate notability.  See WP:NOT - specifically, Wikipedia is not a directory.  The fact that we can demonstrate something exists is not sufficient to qualify that something for an article.  Rklawton 03:04, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge with Gallatin County, Montana. Information on an important service such as a county's law enforcement department is significant in that community, and should be covered in that community. A separate article is not needed however. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:09, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Merge all into parent articles, per my comments on the first listing of the group, and per views expressed at (historical) proposed guideline WP:LOCAL. Edison 17:55, 26 April 2007 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. 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.