Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Metropolitan Police Stations


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The result was delete. &spades;PMC&spades; (talk) 12:11, 12 December 2021 (UTC)

List of Metropolitan Police Stations

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Trivial / unencyclopaedic list. Only a very small number of the list entries point to actual police station articles. Not much referencing, but even if it were fully referenced it would not be encylopaedic. Per WP:NOTDIR, Wikipedia is not a directory, we do not have to exhaustively list everything and just because we can build a list it doesn't mean that we should. 10mmsocket (talk) 08:33, 19 November 2021 (UTC) AdamWikiPeedo (talk) 08:57, 22 November 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, 🌀 Locomotive207 - talk  🌀  01:44, 27 November 2021 (UTC)  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   10:03, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. 10mmsocket (talk) 08:33, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
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 * Delete. Fails WP:NOTDIRECTORY. Ajf773 (talk) 09:31, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete egregious case of WP:NOTDIR, no need to list dozens of WP:RUN OF THE MILL police stations in London and surrounding area. Dronebogus (talk) 20:14, 21 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Keep perhaps not of interest to everyone, I feel the list is indeed encyclopaedic in that it is comprehensive. Much like the List of closed railway stations in London, as an example. According to Listcruft, a "List of X" stand-alone list article should only be created if X itself is a legitimate encyclopedic topic that already has its own article; this has that: Metropolitan Police.  Perhaps lacking in sources and public reaction, I feel the list of police stations is not a directory but a capture of beautiful buildings across different types of architecture (that for those closed are passing from public in to private hands).  Perhaps of interest would be the inclusion of a map showing those closed and those that remain open? If so, incubate?
 * Keep. Encyclopaedic list, as above. Can easily be expanded to include former police stations as well, many of them historic and worthy of articles in their own right. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:23, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Architecture-related deletion discussions. Necrothesp (talk) 13:23, 24 November 2021 (UTC)
 * delete The sourcing and citing on this is abominable, but it's coming across as a research project. I'm not seeing how this is going to avoid synthesizing various lists and even resorting to primary documents. It's not like the list of closed stations; it's more like a list of all parish churches in England. Mangoe (talk) 04:31, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
 * delete: 's argument is the strongest, but I still don't think it quite holds water. The list would be okay if the subject were okay, but the subject isn't the Metropolitan police, it's closed police stations, and while the Met are worthy of an article (test: people write books about it), I don't think closed police stations are (books on closed police stations don't seem common; there are loads of sources about the decline in numbers of police stations, but they're talking about the changes in policing, not about these places as places). Closed railway stations, on the other hand, have a huge inherent interest to the public. I'm not quite sure why, but I think it's the romance of it: these are places where lovers parted, children flew the nest and went to University, where friends met and hugged after decades, where tired people got home from work, where bright and exciting days began with a coffee at dawn; they are the venues for novels and short stories, they are inextricably entwined with our lives. For most of us, police stations are not. So as an encyclopaedia furthering human knowledge in all those areas where humans want to know things, train-stations count, police-stations are at best an awful lot weaker. Elemimele (talk) 10:33, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 * note: I wasn't concentrating, and got myself confused. Of course this is a list of all police stations, not closed ones, that was merely the example AdamWikiPeedo gave as an example. But nevertheless, my feeling is that individual police-stations generally lack the interest that railway stations have. There will obviously be some police stations that are exceptions, with long histories or interesting architecture, and they firmly deserve articles. Elemimele (talk) 13:13, 6 December 2021 (UTC)


 * Delete - I'm with Elemimele on this one. Sad as we are to see these places close, that's not about architecture (mostly completely without merit) but function and "boots on the ground". The places are nearly all non-notable as buildings, and the list is similarly non-notable as a list. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:57, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
 * Delete - I have some sympathy with the keep arguments, but do not think that police stations in themselves are automatically notable. Moreover is a list which just basically gives the code and open/closed status for these stations particularly encyclopaedic or useful? It does not tell us when these stations were operational, or if any of them moved over time for instance. Dunarc (talk) 00:11, 11 December 2021 (UTC)


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