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The result was merge to Livingston, New Jersey. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 18:19, 2 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Livingston Police Department[edit]

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Police department covering a small town of 30,000 people. I believe it fails general notability guidelines for an organisation, and makes no attempt to establish notability e.g. through significant incidents/arrests/cases in its history, or notable members. Biker Biker (talk) 10:37, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of New Jersey-related deletion discussions. —Tom Morris (talk) 15:47, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Comment. This article appears to be largely, or entirely, a copy of pages from the official police website, see [1], [2], etc. This may violate Wikipedia's WP:COPYVIO policies since (unlike the US federal government) local governments generally retain copyright in their materials, see WP:PD.--Arxiloxos (talk) 16:10, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge (with rewriting) / Redirect to Livingston, New Jersey. There is usable material here, that would need to be rewritten in many cases but that could be meaningfully added to the article for the municipality. Alansohn (talk) 16:45, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Smerge per Alansohn and per WP:OUTCOMES -- we've probably merged 3/4 or 4/5 of local law enforcement agencies, unless they have a real claim for uniqueness. Bearian (talk) 23:23, 23 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete. I could not identify any useful or unique information that could be added to its city page (unless I missed something).Z22 (talk) 03:28, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 00:11, 24 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

• Merge to Livingston, New Jersey. The topic IMHO is not quite deserving to have its own page. However, some of the material used here can be useful for the Livingston, NJ page. Tinton5 (talk) 03:32, 25 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete I'd say merge, but there's no content worth merging. Given that it talks about "Our Detectives...", thisreally should have been deleted as G11 as well as A7. DGG ( talk ) 07:04, 2 March 2012 (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.