Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Moose Jaw Fire 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 of the debate was 1, 2, 3...Uhhhhh... 4k, 5d, 3m, no consensus. - Mailer Diablo 15:55, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Moose Jaw Fire Department

No indication of any particular notability or encyclopedic value. There are tens of thousands of such fire departmetns, most not relevant to anyone outside their service area, and indeed almost totally unknown outside said area. A paragraph in Moose Jaw, possibly with an extrnal link, would serve better to present such relevant information as there is on this topic. Delete' DES ^(talk) 20:31, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep, fire departments are just as notable as any high school. - SimonP 22:43, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
  • The notability of schools is highly debated. Creating articles on fire departments only fuels the fire. (Please excuse the unfortunate pun). - Mgm|^(talk) 09:51, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, important to citizens of Moose Jaw and the military base. No need for a whole paragraph in the main article. Kappa 00:19, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

good grief, the sewer system of Moose Jaw is important to the people of Moose Jaw too... why do I bother Pete.Hurd 05:56, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

• Funny how deletionist always turn to scatological references. What exactly is your objection to my being able to read about the sanitation system of this town? Kappa 00:29, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Important to the citizens of Moose Jaw? How is that important to anybody else? It's not. Fire department's are just as notable as any high school, yet the realization is that not every high school is notable; so by logic, put the pieces together and realize that Wikipedia is not big enough to accomodate every city's high school, fire department, police station, hospital, fire hydrant, crossing signal, etc... If at all, save deletion, merge with the main Moose Jaw article. (Notorious4life 05:16, 19 November 2005 (UTC))
  • I don't see why it would have to be important to anyone else, but this article is useful for anyone interested in fire departments in general (see category:Fire departments). Wikipedia is big enough for all the things you mentioned, although I don't think there's a great demand for articles about fire hydrants and crossing signals. Kappa 05:32, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
    • You haven't met User:SPUI, have you? --Calton | Talk 01:05, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. As Kappa says, the fire department is important to the inhabitants there, but I don't think it has much significance outside outside that town. I have looked at the Moose Jaw article and I see that it has a section on the tunnels there and so adding a section on their fire department looks natural and should work well. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:37, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge per Sjakkalle. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:51, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
• A fifty-seven member fire brigade is inherently notable? I don't thinks so. Delete or Merge. --Calton | Talk 01:05, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, notable. Christopher Parham (talk) 08:19, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Not notable, not important outside of Moose Jaw.Ryoung122 22:53, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. No good reason to delete. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 00:10, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete Unless the lack of credible sources is remedied, this appears to violate Wikipedia:Verifiability--redstucco 11:04, 29 November 2005 (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.