Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sevier County Sheriff's Office

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 delete by Majorly in line with the outcome of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gatlinburg Public Services. WjBscribe 16:51, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sevier County Sheriff's Office

Sevier County Sheriff's Office (edit|talk|history|links|watch|logs) – (View log)

Other articles created by this editor and nominated for deletion include:

• Bristol Tennessee Police Department
• Cut Bank Police Department
• Gallatin County Sheriff's Office
• Gatlinburg Fire Department
• Gatlinburg Public Services
• Kingsport Police Department
• Pigeon Forge Public Services
• Roanoke City Sheriff's Office
• Roanoke County Sheriff's Office
• Sullivan County Tennessee Sheriff's Office

Nom - fails notability. See also what Wikipedia is not. Rklawton 01:09, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

• Keep. I think that most police departments are written about often enough that multiple independent sources can be found, although this may require a search of the newspapers (which may not have the full text of all back issues online) in the area served by the police department. --Eastmain 01:49, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
  • Question - I can find multiple, independent, verifiable, reliable sources about me, but I don't rate a bio because I'm still not notable. Why is this sheriff's office any different? Rklawton 02:19, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
• Delete The only source is its own site. Undoubtedly local newspaper stories can be found, but unless something particularly dramatic happened there involving the sheriff's office, they would probably best be considered incidental mentions. As with other topics, probably large city police departments are notable, and sheriff's offices for really major counties, but not in general. merge into the country article.DGG 04:36, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
• Merge with Sevier County, Tennessee. Major but local public services are best covered in the main county article, not a separate article unless the service is of exceptional notability. Sjakkalle (Check!) 06:59, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
• Keep --Remi 09:13, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
• Merge into parent articles. Individual city/county services are generally best treated with a small section in the parent article. There do exist exceptions, for example, such as New York City Fire Department which has enough history and notability independent of the general NYC government to warrant its own article. The general rule of thumb is that if the section would make the parent article too long, go ahead and fork it out - but a detailed list of jurisdictions and accounting of employee positions is WP:NOT and when you excise that you're left with basically "it is the fire department that serves Sevier County". Arkyan • ^(talk) 15:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
• MergeAny sheriff's or police department will be in the news locally many times a year, and are notable enough for inclusion in Wikipedia, but as a part of info that is usually only of local interest, they usually do not need a stand alone article. Most do not get regional or national coverage (and if they do, it is usually because of a one-time crime report). Unless the sheer amount of encyclopedic information would be too long for inclusion in the article about the county or other governmental unit which controls the department, they should be given appropriately if not exhaustively long coverage there. It is not usually desirable to include all minute detail about a school, fire department or police department, such as the names of the individuals supervising various departments, since they change frequently and Wikipedia would soon be stuck with a stale copy if the individual who created the microscopically detailed articles moved on to other interests. Better to keep the description to brief descriptive and historical details which are less volatile, and link to a website of the department for up to date info. In contrast, he police departments of world-class cities and national police agencies are often notable for coverage of their activities and for their cultural notability in fictional works, such as the FBI, Scotland Yard, and the Los Angeles Police Department. See the (historical) proposed guideline WP:LOCAL which expresses the views of a number of Wikipedia editors. Edison 16:57, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
• Merge them all per Edison and Arkyan, fails WP:V, WP:NN. They may be mentioned a lot, but how much about them are of particular encyclopedic interest?  RGTraynor  18:26, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
• Comment I think that Edison has a good point that these should be merged to the article on the government of the jurisdiction or about the jursidiction. Only if the main article becomes unwieldy should the law enforcement aspect be broken into a separate article. --Kevin Murray 21:23, 26 April 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.