Have you ever heard of Harvard Business School Case Studies??
They routinely study big businesses so that others may learn lessons!
Have you ever heard of Harvard Business School Case Studies??
They routinely study big businesses so that others may learn lessons!
I completely disagree with this being to localized... It is clearly not constructive. (I agree with it being closed though so no matter what reason was chosen the mods did the right thing).
The workplace deals with questions that have practical applications. From the FAQ:
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page.
and this line applies as well:
If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be asking here.
No one is saying that the problem is not important or that it should never be talked about anywhere. But it does not belong here period.
If the problem was What should I do if I find my self in a situation like The coach at Penn state? then I think the question would be on topic. But there is no practical problem to be solved here. And we do not have all of the evidence gathered in the investigation. So any analysis here would be pure conjecture... Which makes it not constructive.
The description for "too localized" includes "it is only relevant to a small geographic area, a specific moment in time".
It could also have been closed as "not constructive", which "expect[s] answers to be supported by facts, references, or specific expertise" and avoid "debate, arguments, polling, or extended discussion."
It could also have been closed as "not a real question": "ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form.
As the FAQ states, "you should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face." That's not present in your question as it stands now.
If your question were edited to include a practical, answerable question that was not overly broad or rhetorical, did not invite debate, argument, or extended discussion, and the localized aspects of time and place were generalized, then that would be a question moderators and the community could vote to reopen.
Sure, it's not too localized, it's Not Constructive. I've changed the close reason. Usually this isn't a problem worth changing the close reason for, but: