Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Big White Taxi Service

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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 no consensus - default to Keep (non-admin closure). D.M.N. (talk) 12:49, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Big White Taxi Service

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Highly POV article, contains uncited and possibly libellous allegations against police. The article is about a made-up term used on a discussion forum. Contested prod. Lurker (said · done) 16:42, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Delete. Coatrack for the forum joke. Once this content is pruned, no claim to notability or references. --lifebaka (Talk - Contribs) 16:53, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Speedy Delete A nothing article. It's about a phrase and a forum. The phrase isn't worthy of inclusion while the forum is a forum like any other. If this article is kept, then it needs restructuring and will be end up as

The Big White Taxi Service is an online community by London Ambulance Service staff in the United Kingdom during 1999

And that will be that, never to be expanded upon. Whitstable (talk) 17:13, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

  • Weak Keep Significant social institution. At least one source. DGG (talk) 17:25, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep The term is used across the UK by emergency services to describe the use of ambulances by non-emergency patients who do not need the use of ambulance.
  • Weak delete per Whitestable.--h i s s p a c e r e s e a r c h 20:00, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Keep - It is evidently of interest to users of the forum. Seems to have been edited to remove libellous content.

  • Keep notability is apparent, but remove the POV sections and add more sources. Mr Senseless (talk) 23:07, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep as mentioned, clean up has been carried out to remove any potential libel. Was a first attempt wiki entry, accepted some naiveity is apparent looking at initial entries. There are many mentions of the term 'big white taxi service' in print and in constant use amongst health and emergency service workers and the web forums popularity in the uk and abroad is surely enough to include the current article. Littlebaron (talk) 08:47, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Keep for now - could be merged later - content is verified by a secondary source, in addition to primary sources, and libel has been removed. Addhoc (talk) 13:16, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Merge with Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom#Big_White_Taxi_Service. SilkTork *SilkyTalk 18:20, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Strong Delete - Utterly fails the tests in WP:N - essentially a neologism. Beware oddity in search results from Google: a search for "The Big White Taxi Service" produces a headline of 1,480 results - this Google then resolves to just 22! Springnuts (talk) 23:06, 30 December 2007 (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.