The result was speedy delete. CSD G7 Liz Read! Talk! 05:51, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
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Fails WP:NCORP, fails WP:NEVENT.
Specifically, this is an article about either Mexia Supermarket the business, or about the event of the food there becoming rotten and going off after the power was cut there.
If this is an article about Mexia Supermarket as a business, then its notability is not established as the only sources cited are local newspapers and an ~1 minute-long interview with the guy in charge of the clean-up on an Ancient Aliens-style speculative television program. Local newspapers alone cannot establish the notability of an article per WP:AUD. An interview with the guy in charge of the clean-up is not an independent source and in any event was not significant coverage.
If instead we look at this as an event, there's a clear lack of WP:LASTING coverage or WP:GEOSCOPE. The newspaper coverage was all in local papers and all comes in an approximate four-week period from 13 November 1999 to 9 December 1999, with no coverage at all in reliable, independent sources after that - the story had no WP:PERSISTENCE. As discussed above, the interview is not independent and not in a high quality source, but additionally the real subject of the show it was on was not this event but simply to use it to illustrate what would happen to food stockpiles if humanity suddenly disappeared.
A search on Newspapers.com and other sources failed to turn up anything further covering this business/event. For the avoidance of doubt, Google Maps is not a reliable source.
Ultimately this is just a very run-of-the-mill event common in communities around the world: "local thing smells bad and people complain". FOARP ( talk) 21:03, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
The result was speedy delete. CSD G7 Liz Read! Talk! 05:51, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
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Fails WP:NCORP, fails WP:NEVENT.
Specifically, this is an article about either Mexia Supermarket the business, or about the event of the food there becoming rotten and going off after the power was cut there.
If this is an article about Mexia Supermarket as a business, then its notability is not established as the only sources cited are local newspapers and an ~1 minute-long interview with the guy in charge of the clean-up on an Ancient Aliens-style speculative television program. Local newspapers alone cannot establish the notability of an article per WP:AUD. An interview with the guy in charge of the clean-up is not an independent source and in any event was not significant coverage.
If instead we look at this as an event, there's a clear lack of WP:LASTING coverage or WP:GEOSCOPE. The newspaper coverage was all in local papers and all comes in an approximate four-week period from 13 November 1999 to 9 December 1999, with no coverage at all in reliable, independent sources after that - the story had no WP:PERSISTENCE. As discussed above, the interview is not independent and not in a high quality source, but additionally the real subject of the show it was on was not this event but simply to use it to illustrate what would happen to food stockpiles if humanity suddenly disappeared.
A search on Newspapers.com and other sources failed to turn up anything further covering this business/event. For the avoidance of doubt, Google Maps is not a reliable source.
Ultimately this is just a very run-of-the-mill event common in communities around the world: "local thing smells bad and people complain". FOARP ( talk) 21:03, 5 April 2024 (UTC)