Wikipedia:WikiProject Retailing/20061201 newsletter

Hello, this is the (much belated) WikiProject Retailing newsletter, Volume 4. You are receiving this either because you have opted in to receive this, or you are viewing it because it is listed on {{retailing-subscription}}.

News

• The controversial article Criticism of Wal-Mart, which had recently survived an AfD nomination, has been nominated for featured article status. The result of the nomination was a consensus for opposition, view the sub-page for feedback. As of now, it is believed that there is no featured article within WikiProject Retailing's scope, and it is this project's goal to bring mature articles to featured article status.

Open tasks

• Many retailers are currently benefiting from the extra business that the holiday season brings. Within the past few months on Wikipedia, many articles about major retailers (like Best Buy, Target Corporation) have had their criticism sections edited to make the use of the word "Christmas" in advertisements a more prominent issue than others, such as lawsuits. Given that this criticism is commonly cited as a single organization's cowboy crusade, and that such "secularization of Christmas" content is featured on a mass number of articles about retailing companies, discussion needs to be made on where such criticism belongs.
• A hypermarket, also called a supercenter, is a store prototype combining a discount store and a supermarket. It has been requested that the history section of Wikipedia's Hypermarket article be expanded to include an elaborate detail of the history of such hypermarkets. A reader may be interested in knowing why they became popular. It currently credits a pioneer of the hypermarket concept (although the factual accuracy of this is disputed) and briefly mentions the three big retailers in the United States.