Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Saanich Police Department (2nd nomination)


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The result was delete. Liz Read! Talk! 07:26, 18 December 2022 (UTC)

Saanich Police Department
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Kept in 2009 when depth of coverage was not the factor it is now when assessing organizational AfDs. The PD exists, but coverage I've found is routine and local. There is nothing close to WP:ORG level sourcing. Would be fine with a merger to Saanich,_British_Columbia but that was contested pre AfD Star   Mississippi  14:28, 10 December 2022 (UTC) Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Eddie891 Talk Work 15:36, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Organizations, Police,  and Canada.  Star   Mississippi  14:28, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete. Municipal police departments exist everywhere and do more or less the same things — so much like local fire departments and local chambers of commerce, they can't all be "inherently" notable just because they exist, because that would result in hundreds of thousands of run of the mill articles about every municipal police department on earth, mostly boilerplate with very little meaningful differentiation apart from the name of the city they serve. So the necessary test isn't "can we verify that it exists", but "can we get it over WP:GNG on the quality and depth of its sourcing" — and with this being referenced almost entirely to primary sourcing, there's no evidence that we can. Bearcat (talk) 14:59, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.


 * delete A list of really rather minor "firsts" is not enough to elevate a police force to notability. Mangoe (talk) 03:04, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Delete - Article's subject fails WP:GNG and WP:NORG. The sources are all either non-independent such as press releases, or are trivial mentions of the subject. - Aoidh (talk) 04:41, 18 December 2022 (UTC)


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