# Talk:Public Storage

This WSJ article says Public Storage is "known for its orange doors." Seeing as it's something the company is "known for" I suggest it be mentioned in the article at the end of the second paragraph of the Operations section. Something like "The company is known for using orange-colored doors on its storage units." CorporateM (Talk) 22:50, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

 Not done I don't think this information is notable enough to include it in the article. Z1720 (talk) 17:17, 25 July 2021 (UTC)

Hi. My name is Geoffrey and I work for Public Storage. Recently @Pats322: made some big changes to the page. I think a lot of these changes (see below) made the page worse-off, such as by adding uncited content and removing cited content. I was hoping an impartial editor could assess. All of the citation numbers below refer to the citation numbers in the prior version of the page:

1 Operations/Financials: The entire "Operations" and "Financials" sections were replaced with a "Controversies and legal issues" section that removes all of the routine information and focuses exclusively on the criticisms from the prior sections.
Comments: Removes cited content and does not conform to WP:CRIT. Suggest restoring the original section(s).

2 Adding Controversy: The following was added: "In 2019, the company was fined $140,000 for price gouging after it raised prices by over 10% after the October 2017 Northern California wildfires." and "In 2007, a customer's belongings were auctioned for non-payment while he was serving the US military in Iraq. After receiving negative publicity, Public Storage apologized and gave him $8,000 as compensation for his sold belongings."
Comments: This seems WP:UNDUE, as these are regarding things like a $140,000 fine reported in a short blurb in a local publication. Public Storage is a large multinational corporation. The fine is less than 1% of its annual revenues and is not a historical milestone that belongs in a summary of the company's history.

3 Removing Citations Citation 7 and Citation 8 were removed from the page, leaving a lot of content uncited.
Comments: These are good citations: 7: Rudnitsky, Howard (October 23, 1995). "The king of self-storage". Forbes. Retrieved April 22, 2015; 8: Wrubel, Robert (November 28, 1989). "California Cold Storage". Financial World. I suggest they be restored.

4 Uncited Addition The following was added: "In 1984, PS Reinsurance was formed to sell insurance for a storage unit's contents" with citation 10 as the citation, but I cannot find that in citation 10, nor in any other citations.
Comments: This seems to be uncited original research, as I cannot find this in a citation anywhere.

5 Removal of cited content The following cited content was all removed from the History/Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) section:

Comments: Suggest restoring cited content. I'm not sure why so much history would be deleted.
Overall, I don't think these changes improved the page and the article would be better off just reverting to the prior version. Please let me know how I can be of any further assistance. Geoffreyvee (talk) 21:18, 23 October 2025 (UTC)