Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gary 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 of the debate was Keep. - Bobet 21:50, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gary Police Department

Wikipedia is not the Phone book. This Police Station is not notable. Bobby1011 03:47, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per nomination. Article is primarily an organization chart and phone book. Oscar 05:26, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep, the police departments of major cities are usually politically controversial, and the histories of such departments often have value. Expansion is warranted. Please Don't BlockPlease Don't Block
• Keep but expand The city of Gary/East Chicago is such a prominent one in regards to the high crime rate that this police department is one of the busiest in the nation. I'd say this article needs to be cleaned up and the focus taken off who commands which sector and put into more interesting encyclopedic information. Batman2005 06:57, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Comment This article is a stub at the moment. There is barely any discussion of the subject, the majority of the content being a list of senior officers. I would abstain from voting until the author or another editor has contributed some notable events in the history of the department.  (aeropagitica)  07:47, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and I agree with Aeropagitica in terms of needs more content to ensure notability is refined. VirtualSteve 07:59, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete Unless I'm gonna be allowed to get away with seperate articles on every Police Station in Britain! Jcuk 10:01, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. This does not appear to be about a police station but a city-wide department in a fairly large city. Important public service, at least as notable as any school. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:44, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and clean-up removing all the lists of current position holders. Capitalistroadster 17:12, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
  • Article cleaned up. No change of vote from keep. Capitalistroadster 17:21, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
• Keep. Until recently, Gary had the highest crime rate of any city in the US. It probably still does, as regards some specific types of crime. (Look it up in your World Almanac; I can't find mine right now.) The police department there would thus seem notable. ergot 03:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Jcuk. Stifle 00:28, 28 February 2006 (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.