Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Member of Service

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 redirect‎ to First responder. Eddie891 ^Talk _Work 06:20, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Member of Service

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Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This article just gives a definition of a particular term in the jargon of emergency responders and a few examples of when this term might be used. I don't see opportunities for this article to become substantially more than a definition. —Bkell (talk) 16:16, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This article was previously proposed for deletion in 2013 with the rationale "Non-notable dictionary definition" [1]; the PROD tag was removed with the comment "expandable into more than a dicdef" [2]. —Bkell (talk) 16:20, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Note: This discussion has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 18:32, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
• Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Law, Police, and Medicine. WCQuidditch ☎ ✎ 19:07, 23 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: Old PROD. Not eligible for soft deletion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, — Benison (Beni · talk) 20:01, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Redirect to Certified first responder First responder. The two web sources aren't reliable secondary sources, and as far as I can tell this is just another term for more or less the same topic. hinnk (talk) 02:33, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

  I hadn't clocked that there was a separate First responder article, this page links that term to Certified first responder for whatever reason. I'd still prefer a redirect over deletion since it's a plausible search term, but no strong preference on which target to use. hinnk (talk) 04:52, 1 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete: This is not equivalent to a certified first responder which is a "a person who has completed a course and received certification in providing pre-hospital care for medical emergencies...but they are not necessarily a substitute for more advanced emergency medical care rendered by emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and paramedics" it is more similar to First responder but I don't think that should be a redirect target. In my view this article can only saved by showing it is a term with a unique history and usage outside of being a possible meaning of the acronym MOS. Moritoriko (talk) 03:46, 1 May 2025 (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.