Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Scranton 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 keep. Consensus is that the topic has sufficient sources to meet notability guidelines. Article cleanup and improvement is the next step. (non-admin closure) (t · c) buidhe 21:03, 21 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scranton Fire Department

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Extremely long article about a single fire department, with no indication of importance, and exclusively first party sources. If proper WP:GNG passing sources for it can be found at all, this article needs major cleanup. Full of fluff, to say the least. —moonythedwarf (Braden N.) 20:00, 6 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Pennsylvania-related deletion discussions. CAPTAIN RAJU^(T) 20:22, 6 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This article doesn't look that bad to me, though it could use more secondary sources. That being said, there are secondary sources available: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Not a small-time fire department, but the fire department for one of the biggest cities in Pennsylvania. ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs)}~ 01:53, 8 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Merge to the article on Scranton. There is no justification for a free standing article on the fire department.John Pack Lambert (talk) 13:41, 12 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Vanamonde (Talk) 01:42, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Keep This fire department is exceptionally well-documented as it had a dedicated historian who wrote several books about it. Andrew🐉(talk) 10:03, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep the article being a little fluffed out doesn't mean we should delete it. blindlynx (talk) 19:39, 14 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Keep per WP:OUTCOMES and WP:SNOW. We have tended to keep large fire/police departments. See Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Genesee County, New York Sheriff's Office, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Honolulu Fire Department, and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lee County Sheriff's Office (Florida) for precedents. Bearian (talk) 22:12, 17 November 2020 (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.