Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Girard, OH Fire Department


 * 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The result was   Nomination withdrawn (non-admin closure), because it has become impossible to debate the merits of the article in question due to the blatant disruption of the AfD process. Ecoleetage (talk) 11:03, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Girard, OH Fire Department

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Local fire department, of no particular notability beyond the poor folks in Girard, Ohio, whose homes are burning. Options can include deletion (as the article fails WP:N and WP:RS, or merging or redirecting to the Girard, Ohio. Ecoleetage (talk) 02:55, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

Nomination withdrawn In view of the outrageous disruption of the article's debate, I have no choice but to withdraw the nomination. Ecoleetage (talk) 11:03, 8 August 2008 (UTC)

I would also like to nominate other articles in the same category as it which are equally non-notable (or make no attempt to assert notability): There are a lot more of these, and if anyone else wants me to add the rest of them, they should leave me a note on my talkpage, as I don't want to spend all night nominating more of these if the community thinks it is out of line. --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 03:51, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Beaver Township Fire Department
 * 2) Fredericktown Community Fire District
 * 3) Youngstown Fire Department
 * 4) Bella Vista Fire Department
 * 5) Bristol, Connecticut Fire Department
 * 6) Chicago Fire Department
 * 7) Clark County Fire Department
 * 8) Cy-Fair Volunteer Fire Department
 * 9) East County Fire & Rescue
 * 10) Fire Departments in Delaware
 * 11) Glenville Fire Department
 * 12) Honolulu Fire Department
 * 13) Lincoln Fire & Rescue Department
 * 14) Memphis Fire Services
 * 15) Muskogee Fire Department
 * 16) Nashville Fire Department
 * 17) Noroton Heights Fire Department
 * 18) Providence Fire Department
 * 19) Seattle Fire Department
 * 20) Tess Corners Fire Department
 * 21) Unified Fire Authority (Utah)
 * 22) Vicksburg Fire Department
 * 23) Wayne Township Fire Department
 * 24) West Pulaski Fire Department
 * 25) Zoneton Fire Protection District
 * 26) Webbs Mills Fire Department
 * 27) Pasadena Volunteer Fire Department
 * 28) Virginia Beach Fire Department
 * 29) Milwaukee Fire Department
 * 30) Dublin Fire Brigade
 * 31) Mumbai Fire Brigade
 * 32) Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service
 * 33) Romanian General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations
 * 34) Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service
 * 35) Anaheim Fire Department
 * 36) Bakersfield Fire Department
 * 37) Brea Fire Department
 * 38) Costa Mesa Fire Department
 * 39) Fullerton Fire Department
 * 40) Holy Jim Fire Department
 * 41) Huntington Beach Fire Department
 * 42) Laguna Beach Fire Department
 * 43) Los Angeles County Fire Department
 * 44) Los Angeles Fire Department
 * 45) Menlo Park Fire Department
 * 46) Newport Beach Fire Department
 * 47) Oakland Fire Department
 * 48) Orange County Fire Authority
 * 49) Orange Fire Department
 * 50) Presidio Fire Department
 * 51) Riverside Fire Department
 * 52) Sacramento Fire Department
 * 53) San Diego Fire-Rescue Department
 * 54) San Francisco Fire Department
 * 55) San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District
 * 56) Santa Ana Fire Department
 * 57) University of California, Davis Fire Department
 * 58) University of California, Santa Cruz Fire Department
 * 59) Ventura County Fire Department
 * 60) Broward County Sheriff's Office
 * 61) Chaires-Capitola Volunteer Fire Department
 * 62) Coral Springs Fire Department
 * 63) Miami Fire Department
 * 64) Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department
 * 65) Orange County Fire Rescue
 * 66) Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue
 * 67) Palm Harbor Fire Rescue
 * 68) Seminole County Fire Department
 * 69) Tallahassee Fire Department
 * 70) Tampa Fire Department
 * 71) Fire Departments in Maryland
 * 72) Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service (Maryland)
 * 73) Rockville (Maryland) Volunteer Fire Department
 * 74) White Marsh Volunteer Fire Company
 * 75) Bayport Fire Department
 * 76) Beekman Fire District
 * 77) Binghamton Fire Department
 * 78) Border City Fire Department
 * 79) East Fishkill Fire District
 * 80) East Meadow Fire Department
 * 81) Great River Fire Department
 * 82) Haverstraw Fire Department
 * 83) Lakeside Fire Rescue Company
 * 84) Levittown Fire Department
 * 85) North Bellmore Fire Department
 * 86) Seaford Fire Department
 * 87) Snyder fire department
 * 88) Vista Fire Department
 * 89) Wantagh Fire Department
 * 90) Organization of the New York City Fire Department
 * 91) Flourtown Fire Company
 * 92) Fort Washington Fire Company
 * 93) Kimberton Fire Company
 * 94) Parkland Fire Company
 * 95) Penn Hills Fire Service
 * 96) Philadelphia Fire Department
 * 97) Pittsburgh Fire Bureau
 * 98) Pottstown Fire Department
 * 99) Rosedale Volunteer Fire Department
 * 100) South Media Fire Co.
 * 101) Union Fire Company
 * 102) West Lake Fire Department
 * 103) Baytown Fire Department


 * Merge the significant content in each to their respective location pages, if any, or their respective page on fire services in the area. Each of these pages share significant similarity to many others in the same way that local histories of hamlets are frequently interchangeable (not quite all the same, but very close) but even more so, and the information would best be summarized in fire department with local details left to the locale pages.  I have not listed articles which would be undue weight if merged.  --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 03:51, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge' Many seem fake, regardless not notable Testmasterflex (talk) 04:25, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment A 100-plus-article mass nomination is never a good thing. A number of these departments serve major metropolitan areas and could easily be proven notable. The Chicago Fire Department, for example, has been the subject of multiple books (,, etc) and thousands of newspaper articles. Zagalejo^^^ 04:53, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * I don't particularly like it either, but I think we're dealing with the same question with the vast bulk of these. Anyone is free to vote "delete all except chicago fire department or the like if they don't think an item on this list should be included.  That one specifically, I thought, didn't have enough useful information to not be included in Chicago.  --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 04:57, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * The Chicago Fire Department article is easily expandable, though. We might as well just leave it where it is. Zagalejo^^^ 09:09, 8 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep and Object. I have serious problems with this mass deletion nomination process. This really is not the best way to go about doing this as it makes it impossible to evaluate each article fairly on an individual level. A number of good articles might get deleted unecessarily this way. I request that this on mass AFD be withdrawn.Nrswanson (talk) 05:20, 8 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Speedy close this mass nomination makes it impossible to fairly evaluate all the articles on there merits. I spot checked some, many were stubs but some were medium length articles with good cites. - Icewedge (talk) 05:40, 8 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Close. Far too many articles listed to effectively judge their merits. Maxamegalon2000 05:48, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * We could redact all but the first fire department from the list and vote on each of them individually, as well. I just thought that, on the other extreme, the process would be immense, but it seems from this discussion that it would be warranted.  I invite anyone who agrees with this to redact the list or reduce it to a handful (or leave a message on my talkpage requesting I do so).  --Falcon Darkstar Kirtaran (talk) 05:59, 8 August 2008 (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.