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September 28, 2022, and dates like that

How come the Shanghai one gets to keep a full date accurate to the nearest day, whereas New Zealand only takes accuracy to the nearest month? There are sufficient sources that suggest September 28th 2022 being the New Zealand Time day at which the first New Zealand Costco opened. And furthermore, I am inclined that consistency of dates is necessary, if that is what I believe.

Pinging Whywhenwhohow since they are involved with the edit that removed the specific date. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 05:14, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

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Challenging edit on 14 May 2023

I'm challenging this edit on May 14, 2023 which added a new sentence before an existing citation which is not actually supported by that citation, then inserted a citation to a source which may not be acceptable under WP:RS.

I previously added the second citation (which was already in the article) to support the preceding sentence for the proposition that the first Costco store opened on September 15, 1983 in Seattle.

The anon IP inserted a sentence before that existing citation to make it look like as if the cited article states that Costco stands for CostCompany (the article does not actually say that), then inserted the first citation before that, which links to a site which appears to be a small weblog. That first source cites no sources for its speculative claim that Costco stands for CostCompany.

I just checked several major research databases including ProQuest and Gale General OneFile (the current brand name of the old Gale InfoTrac system). Both databases include extensive news coverage from the 1980s of the early growth of Price Club and Costco. None of those articles mention that Costco was a contraction of CostCompany. Indeed, ProQuest has no mention of that term whatsoever, and InfoTrac has only four mentions, all of which are from 2020 onward, are clearly typos (i.e., corrupted article transmissions), and have nothing to do with Costco.

If anyone can supply a citation to an actual verifiable story from the 1980s (that is, verifiable on a news database or against news microfilm) in which one of the Costco founders actually said that the name stands for CostCompany, I'd be happy to stand corrected. But for now, I'm pulling that assertion and restoring the previous version of that paragraph as it stood on May 14, 2023. Coolcaesar (talk) 23:31, 25 June 2023 (UTC)

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