Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Singapore police officers killed in the line of duty


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The result was   keep. (non-admin closure) DavidLeighEllis (talk) 02:10, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

List of Singapore police officers killed in the line of duty

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This seems entirely outside the project's scope. There do not seem to be that many articles on this project concerning subjects similar to this and it seems that very little of the people in this list have articles of their own. — Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 20:28, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment What about this list, for example? And this one?  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 20:48, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * To be honest, many of these pages do not seem like they're proper for Wikipedia, considering WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Unless the officer was notable, or the events regarding the death notable, then it doesn't seem like the list has its use on Wikipedia.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 21:24, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep An article well sourced with a list of notable facts.User:Lucifero4
 * I don't see a list of every police officer in Singapore who died on duty is "a list of notable facts". It's a list of names of people who don't have their own articles.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 22:43, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Usually the death of a policeman received large coverage in the news.User:Lucifero4
 * Keep. Police killings are extremely likely to be notable events, whether or not the individual victims are otherwise notable. Lists like this one are encyclopedic and appropriate. --Arxiloxos (talk) 22:52, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - meets WP:N and WP:V. After reading WP:NOTMEMORIAL, I do not see how it is even relevant here. Per WP:CSC, the individual members of a list do not have to be notable. VMS Mosaic (talk) 02:43, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Singapore-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 15:03, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
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 * Keep per WP:LISTN. That none of the entries on the list are independently notable is explicitly *not* a criterion for list deletion.  It's clear that "Police officers killed in the line of duty" is a notable subject, and just as clear that "Police officers from city X killed in the line of duty" is notable.  The criterion is that the entries on the list must be discussed by RS as a group.  That's clearly the case here.  There are a bunch of these articles, and every last one of them satisfies LISTN.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 18:48, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I do not see how "police officers killed in the line of duty" is a notable subject thereby allowing people to produce lists covering every single law enforcement agency around the world and their brethren who died on duty.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 20:08, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I believe that it is according to LISTN, which notes that One accepted reason why a list topic is considered notable is if it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources, per the above guidelines; notable list topics are appropriate for a stand-alone list. The entirety of the list does not need to be documented in sources for notability, only that the grouping or set in general has been.. That this is the case for "police officers killed in the line of duty" is not hard to see:
 * There are many more such sources, and in JSTOR too, which I'm not bothering to link to. It seems to me to be a LISTN slam-dunk.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 20:28, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * LISTN also says the event should be notable. Every single Singaporean cop's death on the job does not seem notable. It does get covered by the local press, as do many events, but these are people only notable for one thing it seems, and that is their death.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 21:11, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * No it doesn't, it says exactly the opposite: Because the group or set is notable, the individual items in the list do not need to be independently notable, although editors may, at their discretion, choose to limit large lists by only including entries for independently notable items or those with Wikipedia articles. The individual items do not in fact need to be notable.  This is a crucial element of LISTN.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 21:38, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * But how is the group or set notable?— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 21:42, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Because it has been discussed as a group or set by independent reliable sources, as stated above and demonstrated by three of the multitude of sources available.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 21:53, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * But none of those are about Singapore. And none of them are about being killed in the line of duty. And the fact that every death gets reported by the press does not count.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 22:05, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Well, you see, you didn't ask me about Singapore at first. You said I do not see how "police officers killed in the line of duty" is a notable subject and I produced sources to show that it was.  Now if we're just talking about ones in Singapore, we are talking about "Lists of X of Y", where X="police officers killed in the line of duty" and Y="Singapore."  WP:LISTN says There is no present consensus for how to assess the notability of more complex and cross-categorization lists (such as "Lists of X of Y") or what other criteria may justify the notability of stand-alone lists.  However, I will say that "policemen killed in the line of duty in Los Angeles," (which you did not nominate for deletion) satisfies LISTN all by itself.  Singapore, being as notable a place as Los Angeles, seems to me to have as good a claim to satifying LISTN.  And the fact that none of the sources are about police being killed in the line of duty is irrelevant.  What's relevant is that the sources treat "police killed in the line of duty" as a group or set, and they're RS, so that makes the grouping notable.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 23:19, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
 * That's a real stretch. And these few AFDs are me testing the waters because I really do not see how these lists meet the notability requirements, and simply saying "oh it's a list of two things" means that there's no rule so it's good to go is just complete bullshit.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 00:01, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Not a stretch at all, but good luck to you. I wish you'd bundled them, though.  Perhaps you'll put a note at the top of each notifying the closer of the others, since clearly they all stand or fall together.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 00:04, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Satisfies LISTN. James500 (talk) 08:57, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete I dont particularly "agree" with the current set-up — Preceding unsigned comment added by SweetPotatoSalad (talk • contribs) 10:21, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Why? VMS Mosaic (talk) 10:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. Satisfies LISTN. James500 (talk) 08:57, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Delete I dont particularly "agree" with the current set-up — Preceding unsigned comment added by SweetPotatoSalad (talk • contribs) 10:21, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * Why? VMS Mosaic (talk) 10:54, 1 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep Mosaic, dont listen to that trash. Its obvious that SweetPotatoSalad is another aforementioned sockpuppet of . A thread was started on WP:AN/I for all his foolishness so he will be banned soon. I&#39;ma Scoop! (talk)
 * I&#39;ma Scoop! - Even a total and complete asshole can have an opinion which should be taken into account. VMS Mosaic (talk) 12:09, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
 * It appears Wiki-star has realized I'm onto him and now he's socking and claiming I'm him.— Ryūlóng ( 琉竜 ) 18:07, 1 February 2014 (UTC)
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