Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brampton Fire and Rescue

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 NO CONSENSUS. — JIP | Talk 17:39, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Brampton Fire and Rescue

I see no indicatiosn that this fire departmetn is particualrly notable, and therefore this article is not encyclopedic. Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Delete. DES ^(talk) 18:27, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete this. It doesn't serve any purpose a link to fire department in the Brampton article wouldn't. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 18:57, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

• Keep. Fire departments are inherently notable. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Voyager640 (talk • contribs). 19:12, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. Unless otherwise notable (i.e., for fighting The Great Local Fire of 199x, etc.), I don't think a fire dept. is worth mentioning. There must be (hundreds of?) thousands of such departments across the world, with little to write about them except for their name and service area. --PeruvianLlama^(spit) 19:21, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless Kappa finds that's it's been commemorated on a postage stamp, in which case keep. Dpbsmith (talk) 20:01, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, fire departments are inherently verifiable, and certainly just as much of interest to readers as our thousands of articles on high schools. - SimonP 22:54, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. A valid stub. Let it grow. Ground Zero | t 22:55, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
  • To... what? A list of notable fires they put out? *sigh* --Last Malthusian 18:37, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• I don't personally think local fire departments are inherently notable, but I don't really have any particularly strong feelings about them either way. I would note, however, that the user who created this has an ongoing history of writing about the most absurdly non-encyclopedic topics imaginable, right down to individual bank branches — my best guess is that he genuinely believes that anything that exists merits an article. Accordingly, I'd rather redirect to Brampton, Ontario than delete, because if it's just deleted he'd almost certainly recreate it. Bearcat 00:19, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with Brampton, Ontario, this article is a stub and putting it in with the city will provide context the best way. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:03, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete. Brampton Fire and Rescue is the fire service in Brampton? You don't say! --Last Malthusian 18:37, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge (and redirect per GFDL requirement) to Brampton, Ontario to provide useful context to both this and target article. - Mgm|^(talk) 09:39, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete nn. Even schools are more notable.  Grue  17:29, 22 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.