Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eleven-code
Sometimes Wikipedia serves as an almanac, containing information which is verifiable and useful to some readers, but which may not have the significant coverage in multiple reliable and independent sources needed to show |notability. In this almanac category are such undeletables as every spot on the map which is inhabited. It is quite surprising that more coverage has not been found for these codes, since ChP has been featured in many TV shows and movies. Google Book search says that these codes receive http://books.google.com/books?id=AJIZAAAAIAAJ&q=california+highway+patrol+%2211+98%22&dq=california+highway+patrol+%2211+98%22&lr=&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&as_brr=0&cd=2 some coverage in "Police telecommunications" by Alan Burton, 1973, page 342: "The message can be abbreviated to '19-23 11-98.' (Using the California Highway Patrol vehicle identification 19-23, and their radio code 11-98 for "meet the .." Google Book search also returns "Report"  By California Dept. of the California Highway Patrol, p. 30: "At the hospital, the CHP officer who investigated the accident overheard that the victim ... was 11-44, the highway patrol code number for a fatal accident."(not an independent source and lacking bibliographic info). Other codes show up in snippet view other California government publications like  http://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=10&as_brr=0&id=6zKzAAAAIAAJ&dq=%2211-99%22+california+chp&q=%2211-99%22+#search_anchor and http://books.google.com/books?lr=&cd=1&as_brr=0&id=5nUGAQAAIAAJ&dq=%2211-99%22+california+chp&q=%2211-99%22+#search_anchor. Some individual codes like "11-99" have been discussed in relation to police shootings http://www.the-signal.com/news/archive/1255/ or in reference to a foundation for slain policemen http://www.the-signal.com/news/archive/11558/, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/64422801.html?dids=64422801:64422801&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Apr+07%2C+1985&author=STEVEN+DE+SALVO&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Foundation+Offers+Backup+to+Families+of+CHP+Officers&pqatl=google, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/02/BA5A137DA5.DTL. This is not a really strong demonstration of notability, but I feel it could fall into the 'almanac" provision, since the California Highway Patrol is the largest state police force in the U.S. If the decision is that a separate article is not justified, perhaps the codes could be added to the California Highway Patrol article, since I found no evidence anyone else uses them in addition to the ten codes
— User:Edison, 20:23, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:N (Wikipedia:Notability)