Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gananoque Police Service


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The result was   redirect to Gananoque, Ontario . Fritzpoll (talk) 16:28, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

Gananoque Police Service

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It's a police service that can be confirmed to exist, but no notability is even really argued for in the article, and the article is completely lacking in independent sources, let alone the multiple reliable nontrivial coverage establishing noteworthiness for an article. DreamGuy (talk) 15:00, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Keep and Expand Notability is stated (one of the few small town rural forces that still exist, and have not been contracted to OPP). As well, protection from crime due to local casino.  Yes, this article needs a lot of work, but I just found it today. ( talk→   BWilkins   ←track ) 16:52, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

Comment The above reasoning for notability doesn't make much sense to me. The article only claims it is one of the few small town forces in the immediate Ontario area that still exist, and this is not sourced. This doesn't make it any more notable than the police force of any other small town. I'm not well versed on deletion criteria for this type of organization, at one point I assumed that any police department was inherently notable enough for inclusion. However going strictly by wp:org this one fails. Beach drifter (talk) 17:28, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Ontario-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 17:31, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions.  -- TexasAndroid (talk) 17:31, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The WP:OUTCOMES (I don't know if they are actually treated there) for police departments is that small departments tend to get deleted. This makes sense; the Chicago Police Department has 15,250 employees, the town of Gananoque has 5,285 residents. But more importantly, reliable sources exist for the Chicago Police Dept and don't for this organization. Delete. Abductive (talk) 18:58, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect to Gananoque, Ontario in lieu of deletion. Cunard (talk) 19:30, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to the city's article. If Bwilkins can turn it into a standalone article with enough refs to make it shiny, I'll be happy to reconsider. Tony Fox (arf!) 21:09, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to the city as above. Continuing to exist is not a reason for notability and it clearly fails WP:OPG. No prejudice against a sourced article in the future if there's anything found to establish notability StarM 00:32, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge as suggested. Niteshift36 (talk) 16:26, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Merge to Gananoque -- Whpq (talk) 15:04, 29 June 2009 (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.