Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Johnson City Police Department (Tennessee)


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The result was redirect to Johnson_City,_Tennessee. Namely to preserve attribution history of the (once) merged content and because Redirects are cheap. Next time see if you can redirect/merge instead of coming to AfD. czar 08:27, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Johnson City Police Department (Tennessee)

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WP:NOTDIR. No encyclopedic content, basically a business listing. MSJapan (talk) 04:13, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect - per nom, adding also that the vast majority of US local or county level police agencies fail ORG miserably. Sure they get tons of mentions in the local press but with very few exceptions, those mentions are either about the crime they fight or personnel changes, not the kind of detailed coverage of the department itself required for notability. Also, coverage for local police agencies is rarely anything but local coverage, failing one of the prime edicts of ORG, a guideline that supersedes GNG. Pretty much the only way a small local agency is gonna be notable is if there was significant systemic scandal somewhere in its history. Note that I specifically oppose merging here. The only content needed in the Johnson City, Tennessee article is a one line mention of the agency's existence. Nothing here would be encyclopedic in a settlement article. Keep in mind that this is a general encyclopedia, and police buff content belongs somewhere else. Pinging  for his view on redirect, as that is what is generally done with articles on nn police or fire departments. John from Idegon (talk) 05:28, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure there's value in it as a search term, honestly. When looking in an encyclopedia, I'd expect to be looking for the city more so than a specific department within it, and if I have to type "Johnson City" I'll hit that first before I hit the PD in the search list.  When it comes right down to it, it seems like WP:TRIVIA, and it's certainly not a defining characteristic; every municipality has a police apparatus of some sort, so we could just as well put a line in the article and not redirect it at all without really making a difference. MSJapan (talk) 05:58, 4 July 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, North America1000 06:05, 11 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment - I have copied the useful content to Johnson_City,_Tennessee. I should have done this when I deprodded to avoid the time wasted by people who seem to prefer doing simple cleanup like this via AfD. When time allows, I try to be bold about merging and redirecting prods like this. ~Kvng (talk) 17:25, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Update: My inclusion of this material was reverted] by . ~Kvng (talk) 14:36, 16 July 2016 (UTC)


 * Comment - I do not have a strong feeling either way about the deletion of this article. However, Kingsport, Jonesborough and other smaller communities have articles on their police departments with equal or less information. If we delete this article, those articles will also need to be deleted for consistency. Eva-psyche (talk) 00:47, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes and no. WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. MSJapan (talk) 02:08, 16 July 2016 (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.