Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stoughton Fire 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 was merge to Stoughton, Massachusetts. --Ezeu 22:54, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Stoughton Fire Department

Delete. It's a fire department with no particular notability. The article goes into great detail about the particulars of the organization but does not assert importance. Deprodded without comment. ... discospinster _talk 00:11, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

• Merge into the Stoughton, Massachusetts article. Fire departments are notable by definition, but are best covered in their town's article. The stuff about uniform colours and such needs to go though. Andrew Lenahan - Starblind 00:22, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge as above keeping what little notability there is in the Stoughton article. Jcam 03:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge as above. They may be verifiable, but they are not really notable. Small town fire departments don't warrent media coverage outside of their own local area, so they aren't that independantly notable. --Jayron32 03:46, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Delete. As per nom-- not notable. Nephron  T|C 04:02, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge This article can be merged into Stoughton, Massachusetts. Daniel5127 (Talk) 06:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge only a few details about the size of the department and its chief. The rest is non-notable. --Dhartung | Talk 08:15, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Delete. I don't think that "by definition" local branches/services of government are notable. The information is certainly verifiable, but once you peel back the unimportant information, you're left with "Stoughton, MA has a fire department." (Just like every other city of 15,000+ population in the U.S.) There are only 12 fire departments listed in Category:Fire_departments and only 39 in Category:Fire departments of the United States (most of these are stubs). Contrast Warsaw Fire Guard, which demonstrates notability beyond doubt. Certainly if a fire department participated in a notable event, such as 9/11 (see Arlington County Fire Department), the Great Chicago Fire, or even demonstrates a long history of notable service (e.g. the Warsaw Guard article), then the department warrants mention. But to think that details about every city and village's fire departments are encyclopedic is a bit bizarre to me. Information has to be notable, and the fact that a city has a fire department -- well -- isn't. (I would also support deleting many of the other non-notables in the categories listed above.) SkerHawx 12:08, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge as per Jcam. --NRS | ^T/_M\^B 12:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge the the town article. As Kurt Vonnegut noted, fire departments are a vital agency, since we live on a planet with about 20% of the air consisting of a highly reactive chemical, Oxygen, and they are the agency which is charged with preventing the rapid catastrophic combining of that chemical with us, our loved ones, and our possessions, even at significant risk to their safety. Edison 12:41, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge no reason to have it's own page. Audiobooks 18:28, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per Starblind. P.B. Pilhet / Talk 19:21, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• merge into the town article makes most sense really Yuckfoo 01:48, 28 October 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.