Talk:Total Beverage

Request edit

I was hoping Wikipedia would have information about Total Beverage in Colorado, one of the biggest liquor stores in this state (link https://www.totalbev.com/). However, the total Beverage page just redirects to an east coast company. I don't think this is right? At minimum, the page should not redirect to another (unrelated) company. COBeerFan (talk) 19:46, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

There was an article for Total Beverage about 12 years ago. But as the discussion below shows, a decision was taken at WP:AFD to delete the page and subsume its contents into another article, the one that this redirect now goes to. It is unclear whether these are two separate companies. This will have to be looked into.  spintendo  23:44, 20 July 2018 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was merge and redirect to Total Wine & More. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 04:05, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Total Beverage

Not notable company, does not meet WP:Corp, the only reason I have heard of it is because I used to live in Maryland. MilesToGo 01:26, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

• Keep. It's a real store. If this were a store in the Star Trek universe, it would be speedily kept. Let's keep this if only to help prevent fiction from becoming more important than reality in Wikipedia. Erik the Rude 03:21, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Merge to Total Wine & More. Company does no exist anymore so a merge rather than keep. - Peripitus (Talk) 04:22, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per Peripitus. JIP | Talk 08:32, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Merge to Total Wine & More, defunct companies are not exactly notable in its own article, unless they were a multinational corporation. --Terence Ong 14:19, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Merge per above. —Mets501^talk 17:34, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and redirect per above. savidan^{(talk) (e@)} 17:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

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Follow up to request

According to this diff the Total Beverage company (TB) was acquired by Total Wine and More (TWM) in 1998. This in turn led to the article being merged and this redirect page being created. This rests on the supposition that there was only one TB – the one in Maryland. But there may have been two TB's, one in Maryland (TB-MD) and one in Colorado (TB-CO). If this is true, there are two possibilities:

1. TB's Wikipedia page in 2006 was for TB-MD, and it was merged with TWM when that company purchased TB-MD.
2. TB's Wikipedia page was for TB-CO, and editors who agreed to the merge at the time were unaware of this, inadvertently merging TB-CO with TWM.

In any event, the article now is not TB-CO. Were TB-CO to have a Wikipedia page in the future, I believe that there would be grounds for deleting the redirect and letting TB-CO have the TB name.  spintendo  01:52, 21 July 2018 (UTC)