Deletion of List of defunct retailers of the United States

Comment: Would you care to describe what criteria of #IINFO this meets?  I can possibly understand a concern that small individual stores will be listed, but I feel that to be a problem solved by limiting it to retailers who would otherwise merit articles.  The fact that most of the entries on this list are red-linked indicates to me that this list is actually helpful in developing Wikipedia.  Many of these pages might never be developed if not for this sort of thing, as well, Wikipedia's selective Bias to the more recent leads to otherwise acceptable material being forgotten.  And there are things that may tell us how notable these stores are, it's called contemporary reports.  Just because it's not on the web today doesn't mean the information isn't out there.  And note, a category would not include the redlinks, which would be a problem.  Seriously, this is a valuable developmment list that should be '''Kept''' rather than deleted
Stance: comment
Cited policy: Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not (WP:NOT)