Portal talk:Current events/2024 April 8

discount retail

99 Cents Only Stores announced last week that it was going to liquidate, although at THAT time it expected to do so outside the bankruptcy system. I posted that as a story and no one complained of its non-notability. Isn't it still there? Notability: the chain operates in four states with more than 10 thousand employees and has a significant place in pop culture (including a spoofing reference in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.)The unsustainability of the discount retailing model, at least in a brick-and-mortar context, is a broader thematic point illustrated here. Christofurio (talk) 11:40, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

• I did consider deleting it then, too. Did you want me to go back and try to delete it for consistency? Unfortunately it's considered bad form to make "agenda" past edits purely for the sake of argument rather than higher priority corrections of factual accuracy (I remember people suddenly going back months and years to try and make "consistency edits" for arguments related to the notability of filibusters editing ancient portal current events days inappropriately). The second mentioning attracted additional attention, since it seemed like it was undue for a retailer that only operates in four states. It is not a "national" brand, and does not meet the national general notability guidelines for Portal:Current Events. I'm very used to losing in every single conflict so I'm not even going to do anything about it this time. Are you proud? You win, by being a bludgeon-user, not due to the legitimacy of anything you have to say here on this point. I'm sorry that you care so much about a retailer that only operates in 4/50 US States, but it is just not worth more abuse and unfairness from tendentious editors. I saw national scale sports teams get eliminated and bankrupt across the world over during the Coronavirus pandemic and every time the stories were removed as not notable, even "smaller" multinational corporations had all their failure listing, (both bankruptcies and otherwise) had headlines removed and all with far more than 10 thousand employees, for instance operating across more than four nations of the EU, way more than 4/50 states of the United States. There is already a major issue with tone where all the rest of the international community rightly complains about how there is too much emphasis put on stories from the "EuroAmerican sphere" and the retention of this story is only contributing to that problem. You are being part of the problem and I'm sorry that you've bludgeoned me to a point where I'm no longer in a position to help fix the problem that you are being. Sumstream (talk) 14:40, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
• P.S. GTA reference providing notability here is laughable, and I can explicitly disprove the Current Events portal agreeing with your "broader thematic point" by how my edit here was entirely and quickly eliminated: (1) (note the similarity between my edit commentary and the "broader thematic point" you describe) Ruby Tuesday is a far bigger company (with way more pop culture reference than a single GTA usage) but its bankruptcy was thrown away as a complete matter-of-course so yes 100% of precedent with evidence is all here on my side, sorry. Sumstream (talk) 15:02, 9 April 2024 (UTC)