Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Snow Hill Police Station (London)

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The result was Merge to City of London Police. Davewild (talk) 11:09, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Snow Hill Police Station (London)

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An absolutely non-notable small police station in central London with no particularly significant history or architectural merit. Its only weak claims to notability are an appearance in a videogame and the fact of being the nearest police station to the Old Bailey. There are 188 police stations in London alone (plus many others that are closed), and I can't see any reason to have articles on those other than those with some historic notability. (The one "fact" in this article not to be a piece of video-game trivia is incorrect; the building is on a side-road and the nearby major road (the A40 road) runs east-west and does not meet the river until Oxford, around 70 miles away.) Bringing it to AfD rather than {{prod}}ding in order to generate some kind of consensus on the broader issue of whether such buildings are notable. — iridescent 19:26, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

• Comment. I know London well, this police station is less than half a mile away from the River Thames. Snow Hill is off Farringdon Street, which is the main road leading to the bank of the River Thames, exactly as the article says. Don't know where you got the A40 road from. Crazysuit 20:07, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
  • Comment The main road Snow Hill police station faces onto is Newgate Street, aka the A40, which doesn't touch the river at any point until Oxfordshire. Yes, Snow Hill runs off Farringdon Street, but the police station is at the other end. — iridescent 20:23, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
• Comment - possibly keep - This is one of only three police stations that form the City of London Police. This station is one of two teritorial divisions of this police force. Certainly more notable than your average london police station. [1]. However, I'm not sure what the notability criteria for police stations are. No more bongos 20:44, 12 November 2007 (UTC) Merge seems to be a perfectly good option too. Just trying to illustrate that this wasn't just a completely irrelevant station. No more bongos 22:51, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge into City of London Police. Since the force has only three stations, any noteworthy material about them can be treated at the main article until there's enough detail to necessitate a split; that stage has not been reached here, even if the video game trivia count as noteworthy. I think there's a precedent for this kind of policy in merging low-importance schools into school district articles. EALacey 22:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
• Merge This one seems like an obvious merge. how to deal with articles on police stations in general is a slightly more difficult problem because of the number of articles that might need merging in instances such as London--presumably there will often be some intermediate region. DGG (talk) 07:21, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Maybe we need to create a set of WP:POLICE notability criteria (tongue firmly in cheek) No more bongos 12:26, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

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