Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Police shooting


 * 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 redirect to Lists of killings by law enforcement officers. Discuss retargeting on a talk page as necessary, but consensus is to redirect unless some better targets are created. czar 20:15, 22 July 2016 (UTC)

Police shooting

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inappropriate disambig page, as these are not formal names, and none are called simply "police shooting". this could be a list if anyone wants to listify it. Mercurywoodrose (talk) 22:18, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Disambiguations-related deletion discussions. Shawn in Montreal (talk) 23:34, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: Keep or redirect? &mdash; Music1201  talk  19:10, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect This is an interesting one. Police shootings could probably make an encyclopedia article, because it's an inherently important topic, and a globally-focused page on the issue would not be a bad idea. For now, however, I would redirect to one or two places: Lists of killings by law enforcement officers, which is the existing disambiguation list for this sort of thing, or Police as a more general target for police using firearms. KaisaL (talk) 01:09, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Use of force. Unnecessary disambiguation page. Could also redirect to list of killings by law enforcement officers, which is the most similar to this disambig, but I prefer pointing to a subject article when it makes sense to do so. Though not necessarily relevant to this AfD, since AfD is about the subject rather than the title, it is interesting to think about whether there's a possible article with this title. I'm inclined to think it would be better to develop use of force, but not sure... &mdash;  Rhododendrites talk  \\ 16:38, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * We need an article on Use of deadly force to serve as the redirect target for this, which is a special case of Use of force. Use of force can mean a headlock or a taser, or just grabbing someone's arm. Deadly force (or force typically intended to be deadly) has its own set of rules. bd2412  T 21:03, 10 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Keep We have quite a bunch of articles and redirects having "police shooting" in the title, only naturally disambiguated by year and location. The suggested redirs are not even close to needing the lemma "police shooting", except perhaps Lists of killings by law enforcement officers - but as "police shooting" both means "shooting of police" and "shooting by police" it would again need to be disambiguated from Lists of killings of law enforcement officers. Thus we really need a disambiguation here. --SI 07:25, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, &mdash; Music1201  talk  19:10, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * redirect to Lists of killings by law enforcement officers, as most people looking for "police shooting" are looking for incidents, not the concept of deadly force or use of force. I proposed deletion, agree a redirect is better.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:47, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Lists of killings by law enforcement officers and merge/remove content that already exists here there - this page serves a similar purpose to the article link above, so we don't need duplicate dab pages. Hx7 19:49, 16 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Lists of killngs by law enforcement officers. KGirlTrucker81talk what I'm been doing 15:35, 18 July 2016 (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.