Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Juneau Alaska Police Department

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The result was merge and redirect.-Wafulz (talk) 16:28, 24 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Juneau Alaska Police Department

Fails WP:ORG and ~~WP:LEA~~ Wikipedia:Notability (law enforcement agency); there's nothing truly notable presented in this article; I'll happily withdrawl if someone can find something notable about this police department. - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 01:42, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Alaska-related deletion discussions.
Keep. I edited the article before it was nominated for AfD, and I added some newspaper references. Just now, I added details on the first Juneau police officer to die in the line of duty. --Eastmain (talk) 01:55, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Note that Juneau, Alaska Police Department exists, and it's just a copy of this one so a merge is in order. The preferred title would be Juneau Police Department since that's what it's officially called as far as I can tell. At any rate, I support keep. WP:LEA is about lead sections and appears irrelevant here... as a capitol city's police department there is a reasonable claim of importance and looking and google books and google news there seem to be plenty of sources. --Rividian (talk) 02:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The intended target for [[WP:LEA]] is Wikipedia:Notability (law enforcement agency). - CobaltBlueTony™ _talk 02:34, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  - Thanks for the correction... while that's just a proposed guideline it seems reasonable enough, although I'd add an allowance for departments of very large cities (250,000+ people or so). However the guideline says "the article content should be merged and redirected" if notability isn't established, so these pagenames should probably be merged/redirected to Juneau, Alaska rather than deleted. --Rividian (talk) 02:40, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Clearly Notable and KEEP and merge with Juneau, Alaska Police Department ^MY♥_INchile 07:04, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and Merge Notability is not in question. Merging this with the other Juneau PD article makes sense. Ecoleetage (talk) 10:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and Redirect to Juneau, Alaska Police Department. It could be a probable search term. Alexius08 is welcome to talk about his contributions. 12:50, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Keep and merge with Juneau, Alaska Police Department. Juliancolton ^Tropical ^Cyclone 18:14, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge and redirect to Juneau, Alaska, which as a city of 30,000, despite being a state capital, is below the level at which it needs a separate article for each agency. I'm not sure where people are getting "keep and merge" but they should be aware these contradict each other. --Dhartung | Talk 19:01, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I guess they mean merge the duplicate articles on the police department (see my first comment). Personally, upon reflection, I'm for merging to the Juneau, Alaska article... nothing exceptionally notable about this department has been established thus far. --Rividian (talk) 20:58, 16 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
weak Keep Large city police departments are notable, and I think as the capitol city this might qualify.DGG (talk) 01:39, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge into Juneau, Alaska Police Department and then Rename to Juneau Police Department. Why have two articles with similar names or merge only one into the city article? The rename is needed to the actual name of the department as on the website. As to notability, it is the police department for a state capital. Vegaswikian (talk) 06:19, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Merge/redirect, notability is clear but article already exists. Everyking (talk) 08:13, 21 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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.