Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of police officers


 * 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. Sandstein 21:10, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

List of police officers
Unmaintable list, way too many police officers, with no criteria in place. Better serves as a category. Delete This is a Secret account 01:01, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. This is an indiscriminate list of information, and perhaps could be considered a loosely-associate list.  Either way, this list could never be completed or maintained.  And there is already a category of police officers.  Useight 02:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep and Rename - The first section, "Notable historical police personalities" - contains absolutely no useful information and should be removed once all the articles it links to have been put in a "police officers" category. The second section, "Notable police officers better known in other walks of life", seems like a valid and interesting list.  I suggest we rename the article "List of police officers better known in other walks of life" and preserve the second half.  --Hyperbole 02:42, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete - the category does just fine. – Mike . lifeguard  &#124; @en.wb 03:19, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete indiscriminate list. Doczilla 03:45, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep the second half. Make sure that everybody pointed to in the first half is in Category:Police officers. Anthony Appleyard 06:24, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep the second half, delete the first half, as per Hyperbole and Anthony, since it is not indiscriminate information. As to first half, "the category does just fine" is correct.  It's unfortunate that these two unrelated lists are grouped in the same article.  I think we should be more careful in evaluating articles about police officers and other unsung heroes, who get less attention than actors and politicians.  Mandsford 12:48, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Categorify/delete per nom. Nested categories work better for large sets of information like this. shoy  (words words) 16:37, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment I've changed the order of the list around, so that it doesn't start with the part that is already a category, and moved the title to something else. It's not fair to judge this article by the first half.  Mandsford 16:55, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and categorify per nom. &mdash; dust mite  17:03, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete and categorize - The second half is slightly less indiscriminate than the first half, but they're both pretty indiscriminate. I mean, the second half puts Wyatt Earp (famous lawman from the Old West), Allan Pinkerton (founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency), J. D. Tippit (shot dead by Lee Harvey Oswald), and Charles Moose (police chief of Montgomery County, Maryland, during the D.C. sniper shootings) all on the same list. Much better suited for categories and sub-categories. --Hnsampat 17:32, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete or Categorify This is unmainanable and should be deleted. A category should be created for notable police officers with articles. DBZROCKS   Its over 9000!!!  00:36, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete, it's so incomplete, but I suggest deletion and categorifying per nom. Lord Sesshomaru (talk • edits) 00:39, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Keep a taxonomy to describe this is pointless as it would include Category:Police officers who become notable sportsman, Category:Police officers who became notable politicians, etc; having this list accompany the current Category:Police officers system is a useful navigational aid. John Vandenberg 04:27, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete: As others said, this works better as a category. I don't see how it's a useful navigational aid, since I don't see how any of the information is useful other than the links to the individual biography articles.Noroton 22:26, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Delete. As WP:NOT states, articles should not be an indiscriminate list of internal links. As it stands, that is what it is. There is no reason why this would not be better served as a category. SorryGuy 20:47, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


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