Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Los Angeles Police Department officers killed in the line of duty


 * 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. Tone 15:52, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

List of Los Angeles Police Department officers killed in the line of duty

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The reasons for deletion outlined at Articles for deletion/List of Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officers killed in the line of duty apply equally to this article: Wikipedia is not a memorial site, and this is a non-encyclopaedic cross-categorisation that fails WP:LISTN. Like that article, this also lacks inline citations and relies on three general references, two to primary sources and the other to an unreliable source based on user-generated content. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 12:55, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Crime-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 13:16, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 13:16, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Lists of people-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 13:17, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of California-related deletion discussions. Lightburst (talk) 13:17, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:56, 16 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Keep this is a list of people so the relevant guideline to pass is WP:NLIST. Lists which provide navigation or information are usually kept. This list provides information. The death of a police officer is dramatic yet the officer may not merit an individual article, so the list is an appropriate placement. The nomination calls out the lack of references, however items on the list can be referenced they are notable. Additionally the fact that another list of Sherifs was deleted does not mean this list should be deleted - we may find a new WP:LOCALCONSENSUS. Lightburst (talk) 14:34, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete The article fails NLIST and WP:NOTMEMORIAL and the subject fails WP:LISTN and WP:GNG. The subject, the death of LAPD officers on-duty, as opposed to the death of individual officers has to be covered in reliable sources. Any statements about what's "usually kept" are logically inconsistent with sentences about how another similar list was just deleted. Chris Troutman  ( talk ) 20:32, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Seems like a WP:NOT issue more than anything, owing to its intent to be an exhaustive list. A single list of notable police officers killed in the line of duty seems quite reasonable, but these lengthy attempts to include every single person who died this way is WP:NOTMEMORIAL and a WP:SALAT issue. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 20:38, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete per WP:NOTMEMORIAL and WP:NOTDIR. Ajf773 (talk) 10:03, 17 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Delete Not memorial. NavjotSR (talk) 16:25, 18 September 2020 (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.