Talk:B&H Photo Video

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An entry from B&H Photo Video appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on December 11, 2006.

[edit] Notability

Notable store. Re-created by me from scratch, rewritten to eliminate A7 G11 G12 issues, after several COI-laden attempts by new users evidently affiliated with the store. - crz crztalk 17:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

How is it notable? There a thousands of stores like it, which pros use. No references, therefore by policy it is NOT notable. As a business, fails WP:CORP

Good questions for AfD... not CSD G11. Or A7. Or whatever. You must be kidding... - crz crztalk 17:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

No, I'm not kidding. Have you read the letter from the Foundation? Spam is to be aggressively attacked. Akradecki 17:20, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes I have. HAVE YOU READ WP:CSD? [obscenities removed]!! - crz crztalk 17:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I have. Before Nawlin got to it and dramatically improved it, it looked, to me, like it fully met "Pages which exclusively promote a company, product, group or service and which would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become encyclopedic." Akradecki 17:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

If I might re-start this conversation as a disinterested third party, I can say that this is a notable store for the many reasons cited in the article (predominantly Jewish workforce, unorthodox Orthodox workdays, unrivaled sales volume). Further, the article doesn't taste like spam, it tastes like information. Anybody who says otherwise should go pick on the Sears and J.C. Penney articles. Edited to add: I see my contribution to the discussion is moot since the article has been improved much since the above discussion took place. Robert K S 15:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

And even the first revision which Akradecki attacked was spam-free! - crz crztalk 19:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] "Possibly" largest in the United States

The article says it is "possibly" the largest but the source cited has no support for this. Frankly I don't know of any stores that could possibly be larger--the only one that comes to mind in L.A. is Samy's Camera, but I think they're more of a rental house. My fix would be to delete the "possibly" and simply cite a sales volume number. Robert K S 15:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

It may not be available, since it's closely held. However Mosherosen (talk • contribs), who probably works there, will be feeding me whatever WP:RS he has, so we may find an approximation there. See his talk page and my talk page. - crz crztalk 19:24, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Can someone mention that the store's website is also closed on holidays?