Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of police stations in Karachi


 * 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.  Maxim (talk)  14:52, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The delete argument that this fails WP:NOT has absolutely not been defeated by the users wanting to keep it. Also, some of the users wishing to keep the article have provided pointlessly weak arguments (David Gerard, Jammy0002).

List of police stations in Karachi

 * ( [ delete] ) – (View AfD) (View log)

Violates WP:NOT. Also fails to assert notability Ravichandar  14:12, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. The police are part of the structure of a state, intrinsically notable. Karachi is the largest city in Pakistan. It does not serve as a directory: there is no information beyond name and part of city (i.e. no external links, no addresses, no telephone numbers). --Oldak Quill 15:15, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There are plenty of police stations in cities in the subcontinent, sometime as much as telephone booths. I dont think a list of all stations approach anywhere near notability. On the contrary, you could have a list of chief commands of the different areas or districts of Karachi within the Wikipedia article on Karachi. - Ravichandar 10:03, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Delete. This article provides no value; it is unencyclopaedic. Cloudz679 (talk) 15:30, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * How is it unencyclopedic? --Oldak Quill 16:00, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep Law enforcement in a major metropolitan area is notable. See, e.g, Category:United States municipal police departments.  Ideally, this should become part of a larger article about law enforcement in Karachi or as a division of law enforcement in the Sindh state.  Mandsford (talk) 15:32, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * '''A police department is something different from a police station. It covers a larger area of jurisdiction. On the contrary, a police station, as per subcontinental standards, covers a very small area. - Ravichandar 10:05, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * The subject of law enforcement in the subcontinent should be examined from a British perspective for the police system in India and Pakistan have descended from the British police system. A police station comes nowhere near a Metropolitan Police Department. See Category:Delhi Police. There are no similar lists of police stations of a city in the subcontinent in India- Ravichandar 10:36, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Lists with a broader classification could be created (like Districts of Delhi Police) and merged with law enforcement in Karachi. - Ravichandar 10:39, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep: In addition to the elaborations by Mandsford and OldakQuill of what notability is being asserted, this list does not fit under any of the descriptions of banned directories in WP:NOT. —Quasirandom (talk) 15:59, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment this is just a copy of with wikilinks to the towns beside the names. This article does not serve a purpose. Cloudz679 (talk) 16:09, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Saying that this content is available elsewhere is no argument for deletion. It is verifiable, it is probably useful, and it is informative. --Oldak Quill 16:21, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * comment that list is copyright, and seems to be being used just a it appears.DGG (talk) 17:13, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Publicly-available data cannot be copyrighted. Also, our article isn't a copyvio, it's got more information than the link. While both are alphabetical lists of the names of the police stations, only our article provides the region of the city that each force is based in. --Oldak Quill 17:26, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Our Article? So it's a copy of the link, with the added value of original research? Cloudz679 (talk) 19:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I said "our article" meaning "Wikipedia's article". No ownership or proprietorship intended by that term - just used "our article" as short hand for "Wikipedia's article". It isn't original research, it just needs to be sourced. --Oldak Quill 19:41, 8 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete Fails WP:NOT ("Wikipedia is not a directory of everything that exists or has existed") in the most fundamental way. The whole spirit of that section of policy (and of the policy itself) is violated here. What is the purpose of this list? Lists are supposed to be useful to readers in understanding an encyclopedic subject or in finding their way around the encyclopedia (or both). This list isn't so long that it couldn't be included in an article about law enforcement in Karachi, a subject that would be welcome as an article if it can be written. But even in such an article, there should be some reason why the list would help the reader understand the subject or navigate. Noroton (talk) 21:42, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Redirect/move to Sindh Police or Karachi police. No precedent exists on having lists of police stations.Bless sins (talk) 22:20, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Keep Informative and many users will possibly use this so I think it's a worthy enough article for Wikipedia. Jammy (talk) 23:21, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
 * WP:USEFUL Noroton (talk) 04:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Keep. Don't be silly, it's verifiable - David Gerard (talk) 01:00, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Which is beside the point and insufficient justification.Noroton (talk) 04:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete or maybe merge into Karachi. It's just a directory which I suspect is going to incomplete or wrong most of the time anyway-- how often are they going to open or close a station? Mangoe (talk) 12:06, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Comment. A link from this page, the one with the informaiton source, would be a useful link on the Karachi page. There is absolutely no need to have a separate page for this list. As you have identified, maintenance is going to be difficult-to-impossible. Cloudz679 (talk) 19:12, 9 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Delete per above discussions. As it is, it is nothing more then a directory.  If someone wants to write an article about the police department, that would be notable.  Vegaswikian (talk) 00:22, 12 March 2008 (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.