Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Posse


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The result was   no firm consensus, I will redirect to Joe Arpaio. I am finding this one a rather tough call, since the POVFORK and NOTNEWSPAPER arguments in the nomination are rather persuasive, and from an editorial standpoint a care must be taken not to violate WP:UNDUE when deciding how much coverage should be granted to the birther movement's views. Still, there are calls to merge whatever is "salvageable" with the Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories.

As an administrator, I am closing this without a deletion. As an editor (who, like any other editor is subjected to seeing his edits altered by anyone who disagrees), I am using my discretion to select what I believe to be the most appropriate target for the redirect. The article on Joe Arpaio has a mention of the Cold Case Posse, and already shares a paragraph with the current article, so I think that is the most useful redirect possible. Sjakkalle (Check!)  20:02, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Maricopa County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Posse

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This should be deleted as a WP:POVFORK and per WP:NOTNEWSPAPER. I can't find any reliable sources about the posse itself so WP:GNG is not met. If anything can be salvaged, it belongs in Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories rather than here. SmartSE (talk) 08:00, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment. All I'm really finding so far are mentions about them in relation to the whole birth certificate thing, which could be considered a "one event" type of scenario since all they really seem to be known for is getting in the news concerning Obama's birth certificate.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 12:33, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * If anything, it does show that they certainly merit a mention in the citizen article that you mentioned. This might be good as a redirect to said article, with the original editor being able to userfy a copy until it can show notability outside of the Obama BC.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 12:39, 2 May 2012 (UTC)


 * When I started to look at this, I expected to find at least a few references to other cases taken on by this group, and I thought I'd probably end up recommending merger/redirect to Joe Arpaio; but I didn't. It seems that Sheriff Arpaio has a whole mess o' volunteer "posses".  This one is notable only for its role in the birther wars.   I find myself agreeing with Smartse and Tokyogirl79: the most likely target for any salvageable content is Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories.--Arxiloxos (talk) 22:22, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
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 * Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.


 * Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:56, 9 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Merge anything salvagable as above; this is an unimportant organization caught up in the birther wars. --Colapeninsula (talk) 09:02, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete not even worth mentioning in the article Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories, but I suppose anyone who wants to can add it.  DGG ( talk ) 02:43, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 'Merge or delete This is a content fork of material at  Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories. There is so little information in this article that it's hard to see why it would ever need to be a sub article. --Loonymonkey (talk) 18:42, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
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