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


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The result was delete. Tone 15:53, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

List of New York 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. This is also almost entirely unreferenced. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 13:15, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
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 * 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 - WP:LOCALCONSENSUS. Lightburst (talk) 14:28, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOTNEWS, WP:NOTMEMORIAL, WP:NOTSTATS. We could have a list of notable deaths and deaths of notable officers, but not every death classified by the department as "line of duty." pburka (talk) 15:06, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - Seems like a WP:NOT issue more than anything. This (like other similar lists) is effectively a reproduction of data available through the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial. Duplicating content from a memorial seems problematic since we have WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Wikipedia should have very few lists that aim to be exhaustive, and I would support having this if more of the individual cases were noteworthy. &mdash; Rhododendrites  talk \\ 15:16, 16 September 2020 (UTC)


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