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The result was keep. Green Giant (talk) 10:12, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Police Service of Pakistan[edit]

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This article was tagged as a hoax by Green Giant (talk · contribs), who wrote on the talk page:

I understand that there are several provincial and federal police forces but I have never come across a "Police Service of Pakistan". The tone of the lead sentence suggests wishful thinking by the original author because it reads a lot like the article on the Indian Police Service, i.e. "The Police Service of Pakistan (PSP) is one of the All Pakistan Services of the Government of Pakistan" compared to "The Indian Police Service, simply known as Indian Police or IPS, is one of the three All India Services of the Government of India." In fact if this service existed, surely there would be an official website, not a list of people's personal websites. The national police academy that is alluded in the external links is actually a unified policy body for all the provincial and federal police forces. The "pspassociation.org" no longer exists. Several of the other personal websites fail to mention a "Police Service of Pakistan". All-in-all this seems a pure hoax. Green Giant (talk) 22:07, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

I removed the ((db-hoax)) because this is not a blatant hoax. There are some results on Google News Archive that mention a Police Service of Pakistan (PSP), such as this article. I am neutral. Cunard (talk) 09:30, 21 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Pakistan-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:36, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This debate has been included in the list of Organizations-related deletion discussions. -- • Gene93k (talk) 00:36, 23 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

• Keep - on closer examination of government documents such as this press release it appears there is indeed a Police Service of Pakistan but it is a civil service pay group and not a full scale police force as the lead sentence of the article suggests. I am therefore withdrawing this nomination and will make the necessary changes to reflect this. Green Giant (talk) 10:09, 23 September 2010 (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.