Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rock Hill Police Department (South Carolina)


 * 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. -- RoySmith (talk) 00:49, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Rock Hill Police Department (South Carolina)

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fails WP:ORG. police departments are not inherently notable, and there is insufficient third party coverage to suggest this meets WP:ORG. LibStar (talk) 00:19, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom, fails GNG —Мандичка YO 😜 07:10, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm waiting for the long winded convoluted responses to come... LibStar (talk) 07:25, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * →→ ←←  —Мандичка YO 😜 09:12, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Snow keep right? LibStar (talk) 09:19, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * As a plausible redirect, article is not eligible to be proposed for deletion by procedures I just made up and shall extrapolate on in my forthcoming essay which should be followed as policy. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. —Мандичка YO 😜 09:34, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

through long winded obfuscating I can show that AfD is an invalid process with my 500 character plus mobile edit! LibStar (talk) 10:09, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Law-related deletion discussions. North America1000 10:12, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. North America1000 10:12, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of South Carolina-related deletion discussions. North America1000 10:12, 8 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Selective Merge to Rock Hill, South Carolina, which presently only has a passing mention in it consisting of a link to this article. This will serve to enhance the merge target article. North America1000 10:13, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. Satisfies GNG due to coverage in the hundreds of sources in GNews, GBooks and elsewhere. First unionised police department in South Carolina: . Involved in an incident with the freedom riders: . Failure to provide a traffic safety program before 1946: . Ineligible for deletion as a plausible redirect to the area in which it is located (WP:R). Should not have been nominated. AfD is not for merger proposals. James500 (talk) 13:15, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
 * it is not ineligible for deletion, that's a ludicrous statement. But now you're going to respond with a long winded reply. LibStar (talk) 13:29, 9 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Not sure there's anything worth merging here (certainly not a list of its units), but it should be covered to some extent in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and the title is also a plausible redirect. No preference on whether that's done here by simple redirection, or deleting and then creating a redirect. On the argument that it merits a standalone article, it might be better to develop it as a subtopic within Rock Hill, South Carolina and then argue for a WP:SPLIT if there is enough stable, verifiable, and substantive content. postdlf (talk) 17:05, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete no sources (only ref in article is the subject's own website), no coverage, size and shape of the department or the city are irrelevant to determine notability, it fails WP:ORGDEPTH and WP:GNG. We all know that every city populated American place amended, see below has some sort of law enforcement agency, if being a city then it's usually amended, see below a police department, nothing to mention or to merge, there being no info. Kraxler (talk) 16:44, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
 * (1) No coverage? It is blindingly obvious to anyone who can use a search engine that there is coverage. Perhaps you meant to argue that the coverage, whose mere existence cannot be denied, is not 'significant'. (2) The size of a department can be grounds for keeping it. (3) Many cities do not have police departments. Paramilitary police forces of this type were invented in the nineteenth century and could potentially be regarded as a historical anomaly. Cities that existed before then will not have had one. Even today, English cities, with the exception of London, do not have police departments. English police forces are generally county-wide organisations. City-wide departments could be a purely American institution. James500 (talk) 02:12, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
 * I amended my rationale, although I think it was clear that I was talking about present day American cities. If there's any coverage of the subject anywhere, then just add a source/ref/link here. I used the search engines and it became blindingly bviously that there was no coverage. Remember that WP:ORGDEPTH requires in-depth coverage of the police department itself, not a trivial, passing mention of it. And the size (180+ employees) is in this case rather indicating insignificance. Kraxler (talk) 13:42, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


 * Delete and Redirect (perhaps a very selective Merge per ) - not enough significant non-routine coverage to justify a stand-alone article. &mdash;  Rhododendrites  talk  \\ 19:04, 17 July 2015 (UTC)


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