Talk:Saskatchewan Marshals Service

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This article was nominated for deletion on 29 October 2022. The result of the discussion was delete.

Saskatchewan Marshals Service is currently a Law good article nominee. Nominated by Ominae (talk) at 16:40, 2 September 2025 (UTC) Any editor who has not nominated or contributed significantly to this article may review it according to the good article criteria to decide whether or not to list it as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and save the page. (See here for the good article instructions.) Note: This police force in Saskatchewan is going to be supposedly operational by the end of 2025. Short description: Law enforcement agency

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: rejected by reviewer, closed by Launchballer talk 13:13, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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• ... that the Saskatchewan Marshals Service was legalized in Saskatchewan through the passing of the The Police (Miscellaneous) Amendment Act, 2023?

• Source: https://pubsaskdev.blob.core.windows.net/pubsask-prod/142127/Bill-144-2023.pdf, specifcally page 2 (can include page 3 if needed).

• ALT1: ... that the Saskatchewan Marshals Service is being blamed for poaching police officers from the RCMP, but the first 10 officers are not from the Saskatchewan RCMP? Source: https://www.sasktoday.ca/provincial-news/none-of-ten-marshals-recruits-are-former-rcmp-10315655
• ALT2: ... that the Saskatchewan Marshals Service recruited a former RCMP officer from British Columbia despite claims of the SMS "poaching" officers from Saskatchewan RCMP? Source: https://www.sasktoday.ca/provincial-news/none-of-ten-marshals-recruits-are-former-rcmp-10315655
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Philippe Housiaux
• Comment: The SMS is a new police service that's suppose to go operational before the end of 2025, assuming Saskatchewan news is up to date. Working on improving and expanding it. As for QPQ, I'm working on the DYK nomination (page) that's being reviewed. Hope that it'll be resolved soon. Apologies for that. Otherwise, I'll go and change it under advisement.

Also, there's no free images of the SMS in Commons.

5x expanded by Ominae (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 20 past nominations.

Ominae (talk) 10:14, 30 June 2025 (UTC).[reply]

• A bit tricky to review, some work is needed on the article side and the DYK side. The article is long enough. A QPQ was done, although it would be better if it specifically noted the process of review. It does not qualify for a 5x expansion as submitted, but does qualify as a new article (courtesy ping Aŭstriano). Not seeing any copyvio. However, the article needs copyediting before it is main-page ready. The prose is choppy, and I'm not sure some of the wording (eg. "legalize the existence of the SMS" is accurate. The tesnses need looking at (eg. "In June 2025, SMS Marshals are deployed in Saskatchewan"), very clearly and as stated in sources [1] the force did start operating in 2025, so the lead is already outdated. The hooks are not sufficient, naming legislation doesn't really pass DYKINT, and the RCMP angle seems to be mostly a rather banal political claim. I would suggest entirely new hooks would be needed. CMD (talk) 11:45, 14 August 2025 (UTC)\[reply]
  • No problem. I can do check the tenses in a bit. TBH, I'll go see and try to brainstorm one new DYK. Ominae (talk) 03:08, 15 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
    • Got an idea. ALT1: ... that the Saskatchewan Marshals Service was suppose to be operational in 2026 instead of 2025? Ominae (talk) 03:17, 20 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
      • I don't think that meets WP:DYKINT... ♠PMC♠ (talk) 14:14, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
        • I think I’m running out of ideas with the others not considered. :( Ominae (talk) 17:56, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'd think of something sharpish. This times out soon.--Launchballer 23:31, 27 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• • • • • • Slapping this idea.

ALT1: ... that the Saskatchewan Marshals Service is mandated to investigate crimes related to agriculture?

ALT2: ... that the Saskatchewan Marshals Service ‘s first operation was to conduct joint patrols with the Prince Albert Police Service? Ominae (talk) 10:31, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Article has reached the WP:DYKTIMEOUT limit; as we are currently handling many more nominations than we can run, marking this for rejection. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:10, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]