Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Toronto Fire Services

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. — JIP | Talk 18:05, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Toronto Fire Services

No indication of any particular notability or encyclopedic value. There are tens of thousands of such fire departments, most not relevant to anyone outside their service area, and indeed almost totally unknown outside said area. This one is for a large adn well-known city, but is not otherwise notable. A paragraph in Toronto possibly with an extrnal link, would serve better to present such relevant information as there is on this topic. Delete. DES ^(talk) 21:50, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

• Delete. These Fire Services, however much respect I have for them, haven't done anything remarkable enough for Wikipedia. Nazgjunk||(talk) 22:23, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep, vastly larger and more important than the thousands of high schools we have articles on. - SimonP 22:45, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
  • Comment If i had my way we would delete most of those, also. But the exiatance and indeed the gernal acceptance of one calss of poor articels (such as School articels, or Pokemon characters) does not justify another such class. DES ^(talk) 01:14, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep and more important than the thousands of articles on Pokemon, Star Wars, Star Trek and Harry Potter characters. Ground Zero | t 22:52, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep per SimonP and Ground Zero. 23skidoo 01:00, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep. It has over a hundred years of history behind it and if expanded (I won't do it) it can make a decent article. However, I do not suscribe to SimonP and Ground Zero's point that because high schools and Pokemon characters must exist that fire departments must also. --maclean25 02:25, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
  • I'm with Maclean25. Please judge an article on its own merits. Just because we have crap that's not deleted, doesn't mean we should allow more in. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:06, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
• Strong keep A major municipal service in a large city should have its own article and should be enhanced, not deleted. Should we consider deleting the article about the Toronto Police Service too? How about the better way? Or the FDNY, NYPD, or even NYPD Blue? Given its size and structure, there is only a very slight argument (if at all) to merge the TFS article into a unified article about all of Toronto's emergency services (GZ, et al: God forbid articles about beloved sci-fi characters being less important, but I agree that Pokemon should die. :)) E Pluribus Anthony 07:11, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep This is an article on the fire service of a major city, not an individual fire station, and its educational counterpart would be a school district and not an individual school. The fire service is an important part of the public service, and the article looks good. Sjakkalle (Check!) 08:54, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• keep This is hardly Nowheresville, Idaho Fire Department. CalJW 14:59, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep Notable service of a notable city. --YUL89YYZ 23:03, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep -- Something doesn't have to be unique to be notable. It's a major and important institution. Skeezix1000 02:39, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
• Keep organization with significant history. Provides context to the Great Toronto Fire. - Mgm|^(talk) 10:06, 20 November 2005 (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.