Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Police officers and donuts

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 merge to Doughnut Denni ☯ 21:02, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Police officers and donuts

Is this article useful in anyway? If not, then I'd say delete it. Foogol 00:38, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. No one will ever find this orphaned page. Owen× ☎ 00:44, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Merge with Donut per Gazpacho and Mgm's good idea. Owen× ☎ 14:41, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete -- Francs2000 01:10, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete unless we want to create a page that lists all known stereortypes, in which case, merge Sethie 01:17, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to donut (not police). Interesting cultural quirk. Gazpacho 01:22, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge as suggested above. PJM 03:45, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to Donut per Gazpacho. It's an interesting quirk, but only common to the USA and Canada, so putting it in police wouldn't fit too well. - Mgm|^(talk) 08:57, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to Donut, Chief Wiggum will thank us. IanBailey ^(talk) 09:09, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete or merge, but if merged it requires verification and marked clearly as N.American - it said 'well-known' but it is unknown in the UK, where unfortunately we have fewer donut shops (and police). --Doc ^ask? 09:54, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete, silly article, not encyclopedic. Stifle 11:22, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge with mmmm, dooo-nut... --Merovingian 11:21, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Unencyclopedic trivia. Delete. - Mike Rosoft 12:52, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. An interesting description of an important U.S. cultural phenomenon. Voyager640 18:02, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
• Delete as original research. They present a stereotype and then speculate as to the reasons for it. Do not merge. Turnstep 19:33, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Just because there's some speculation in there doesn't mean we shouldn't document the stereotype. We can leave the speculation out of the merged material. - Mgm|^(talk) 22:15, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Possible source -> Brehm, John and Scott Gates. 1993a. "Donut Shops and Speed Traps: Evaluating Models of Supervision on Police Behaviour," American Journal of Political Science 37:555-81 IanBailey ^(talk) 01:54, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Nice research you've got there. Good job! Merge to donut. Jacqui^★ 15:00, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

That could work, but it is still a very weak merge. Turnstep 15:26, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

• Merge to donut. It's not a stereotype - cops frequent donut shops far more frequently than they do other fast-food places. I've never seen a cop at a McDonald's. Denni ☯ 03:01, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Well, I've seen them at McDonald's, so my personal observation cancels your personal observation. :) Turnstep 15:26, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep - This subject exists. Bensaccount 04:11, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
• delete
• Merge to donut per above. NSLE _{(讨论+extra)} 08:34, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
• Merge to donut as above and cleanup.  — Saxifrage | ☎ 18:34, 26 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.