Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Oregon Police Department


 * 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   merge to Campus law enforcement in Oregon. In a purely numbers game, this would look like a No Consensus, but I don't see much in the way of policy to back up either of the Keep arguments, so I'm not giving them a lot of weight. 's suggestion seems like a reasonable compromise, so I'm going with that. -- RoySmith (talk) 23:28, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

University of Oregon Police Department

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all large universities have police departments, the article is full of routine descriptions of what this department does, and for this reason I also oppose merge. Secondly this department has no significance outside the university LibStar (talk) 12:17, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I also nominate Oregon Health & Science University Police for the same reasons. LibStar (talk) 13:05, 23 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Delete, unremarkable law enforcement organisation with nothing other than routine coverage.TheLongTone (talk) 12:58, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment I was astonished at the claim that "all large universities have police departments". However, I see from Campus police that it may be true for all significant parts of the world. In passing, I was able to learn about the Cambridge University Constabulary before that reaches AfD. It is a shame I was not able to read the articles about the Preschool Special Operations Forces because they seem to have been deleted already. I expect there was no indication of importance. Thincat (talk) 13:38, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
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 * Merge selectively - Neither parent article even mentions their campus police departments as of this post, not even once. Therefore, selectively merge:
 * University of Oregon Police Department → University of Oregon
 * Oregon Health & Science University Police → Oregon Health & Science University
 * – NorthAmerica1000 23:37, 23 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Actually, in university articles, any coverage at all is too much. A campus police department is no more important in the university than, say, the maintenance department.  Really you wouldn't write about it, if you were developing an article about the university.  I "vote" for a different merger below. -- do  ncr  am  01:43, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Merge into Campus law enforcement in Oregon and redirect. Much of this article is on the state law, not specific to this one campus.  The state article asserts this one is the only campus police department in Oregon of some type, a vague notability claim perhaps, but better to merge.  The "Campus law enforcement in Oregon" article can possibly include a list-table of data on campus security / campus police departments in the state with size information like having 90 officers and so on, if there is a source for such.  I agree that few if any campus police departments will be notable;  fire and police departments are mentioned in nonbinding essay wp:MILL which i came across recently.  Perhaps state-level lists is a way to deal with perennial issue of campus police department articles.  Merging and redirecting is better, per wp:PRESERVE. -- do  ncr  am  01:36, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep - The University of Oregon and the Oregon Health & Science University are the only two University's in the State of Oregon that have their own Police Departments, making them somewhat unique. Additionally, Oregon Health & Science University's department is even more unique in that they are unarmed Police Officers who have an entire senate bill written into law specifically for them. Tiptoety  talk 16:18, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
 * it may be unique but it completely lacks third party sources. why can't the "unique" facts be simply mentioned in 1 or 2 lines in the university's article. LibStar (talk) 00:36, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I somewhat agree with Libstar. But IMHO, the facts about a police department, unique within Oregon or not, probably don't merit coverage in a university article.  They would merit coverage in a statewide article about campus law enforcement, though, so why not mention them in 1 or 2 lines in the statewide article. -- do  ncr  am  02:48, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Keep, agree with rationale as written by, above. Especially with the unique status of having a special State Senate Bill written for the organization. &mdash; Cirt (talk) 16:21, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
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