Wikipedia:WikiProject Dead Malls
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WikiProject Dead Malls is a project to better organize information in articles related to dead and declining shopping malls. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
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[edit] Title
WikiProject Dead malls
[edit] Scope
WikiProject Dead Malls exists to better coordinate efforts to enlarge and improve Wikipedia's coverage of defunct and declining shopping malls. Specifically, it deals with all articles relating to dead malls, including List of defunct shopping malls.
[edit] How you can help
To build the community:
- Join this project by adding your name to the list below.
- Add this page to your watchlist, and keep up with what needs doing.
To identify and improve dead mall pages:
- Locate pages that need attention, then add them to the list below.
- Have a go at editing a page from the list below.
- To provide guidelines for writing about dead malls.
Join in the discussion!
[edit] Participants
- SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:35, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
- User:Isipeoria Isipeoria 23:14, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
- Karrmann 04:19, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
- 1ne 00:04, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
- Caldorwards4 05:48, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
- Darkdan 06:48, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
- Badbilltucker 19:53, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
- dml 10:33, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- ArkansasTraveler 14:05, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- CaseyIsDShiz 02:38, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
- Irongargoyle 05:07, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
- akronpow 14:31, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
- IvoShandor 13:42, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- TenPoundHammer 17:51, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
- PatricknoddyTALK (reply here)|HISTORY
[edit] Structure
Articles about individual malls, especially defunct ones, should take a look primarily at the mall's history. Most reasonable people would not build a retail center like a shopping mall intending for it to fail. Thus the guiding question on these kinds of articles is, "What brought this facility to the state it is in today?"
A few points worth including when writing or refining an article on a defunct shopping mall if sources can be found:
- Planning - What was there before? Why did the design take on the attributes it did?
- Construction - How long did it take to build? Any problems?
- Opening - What was the grand opening like?
- Ownership - Who owned it? Were there any changes in ownership?
- Stores - What stores were in the mall when it opened? What about later years? What were some of the last stores to leave the mall?
- Renovations - Was the mall ever renovated? When? How many times was it renovated? What was changed? Does a source state why the mall was renovated?
- Decline - What factors caused stores to leave the mall? Was it a single event, or a series of events? Was the cause local (e.g. crime in the area, better shopping elsewhere in the town), or outside the local area (e.g. corporate decisions to close stores, especially when an anchor store is closed).
- Closure - When did the mall close (if applicable)? What caused the plug to finally be pulled on this mall? Which stores were the last to leave? Did any stores remain open after the mall itself closed?
- Disposition - What happened to the mall following its closure? Was it demolished? What replaced it? Does it remain standing and abandoned? Was the mall converted for other non-retail uses?
Ideally, such information should be listed in chronological order.
[edit] Pages covered by this project
Articles covered by this project are sorted and rated according to quality. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Dead Malls/Ratings for more information about the rating next to the article titles.
[edit] Information pages
| Article | Rating |
|---|---|
| Dead mall | Needs rating |
| List of defunct shopping malls | Needs rating |
| List of shopping malls converted to outdoor format | Needs rating |
| Deadmalls.com | Needs rating |
[edit] Defunct shopping malls
| Article | Rating |
|---|---|
| Apache Plaza (St. Anthony, Minnesota) | Good |
| Avondale Mall (Belvedere Park, Georgia) | Needs exp |
| Beloit Plaza (Beloit, Wisconsin) | Needs rating |
| Big Town Mall (Mesquite, Texas) | Needs rating |
| Centre 2000 | Stub |
| Cinderella City Mall (Englewood, Colorado) | Good |
| Cobb Center Mall (Smyrna, Georgia) | Needs org |
| Columbus Square Mall (Columbus, Georgia) | Needs exp/org |
| Crossroads Mall (Clearwater, Florida) | Stub |
| Dixie Square Mall (Harvey, Illinois) | Good |
| East Lake Square Mall (Tampa, Florida) | Needs exp |
| Eastwood Mall (Birmingham, Alabama) | Needs exp |
| Kyova Mall (Cannonsburg, Kentucky) | Needs exp/org |
| Lakehurst Mall (Waukegan, Illinois) | Good |
| Landover Mall (Landover, Maryland) | Needs exp |
| Mall of Memphis (Memphis, Tennessee) | Needs exp |
| Methuen Mall (Methuen, Massachusetts) | Needs exp/org |
| Myrtle Square Mall (Myrtle Beach, South Carolina) | Good |
| Old Chicago (Bolingbrook, Illinois) | Good |
| Orange Plaza (Middletown, New York) | Needs exp/org |
| Regency Mall (Augusta, Georgia) | Needs exp/org |
| Riverbend Mall (Rome, Georgia) | Needs org |
| Salem Mall (Trotwood, Ohio) | Needs exp/org |
| Seaview Square Mall (Ocean Township, New Jersey) | Stub |
| Southglenn Mall (Centennial, Colorado) | Needs exp/org |
| South Square Mall (Durham, North Carolina) | Needs exp |
| Tampa Bay Center (Tampa, Florida) | Stub |
| Washington Commons (Green Bay, Wisconsin) | Needs exp/org |
| Waynesboro Outlet Village (Waynesboro, Virginia) | Needs exp/org |
[edit] Distressed shopping malls
| Article | Rating |
|---|---|
| Bandana Square (Saint Paul, Minnesota) | Needs rating |
| Century Plaza (Birmingham, Alabama) | Needs rating |
| Columbus City Center (Columbus, Ohio) | Good |
| Dutch Square Mall (Columbia, South Carolina) | Needs rating |
| Eastern Hills Mall (Williamsville, New York) | Needs rating |
| Eastgate Mall (Chattanooga, Tennessee) | Needs rating |
| Eastland Mall (Charlotte, North Carolina) | Needs rating |
| East Town Mall (Green Bay, Wisconsin) | Needs rating |
| Hudson Valley Mall (Kingston, New York) | Needs rating |
| Karcher Mall (Nampa, Idaho) | Needs rating |
| Latham Circle Mall (Latham, New York) | Needs rating |
| MacDade Mall (Holmes, Pennsylvania) | Needs rating |
| Martinsburg Mall (Martinsburg, West Virginia) | Needs rating |
| Metrocenter Mall (Phoenix, Arizona) | Needs rating |
| Midtown Plaza (Rochester, New York) | Needs rating |
| Miracle City Mall (Titusville, Florida) | Needs rating |
| New Harbour Mall (Fall River, Massachusetts) | Needs rating |
| Northgate Mall (Tullahoma) (Tullahoma, Tennessee) | Needs rating |
| Old Capitol Mall (Iowa City, Iowa) | Needs rating |
| Parkway Center Mall (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) | Needs rating |
| Phoenix Spectrum Mall (Phoenix, Arizona) | Needs rating |
| Saint Anthony Main (Minneapolis, Minnesota) | Needs rating |
| Santa Monica Place (Santa Monica, California) | Needs rating |
| Savannah Mall (Savannah, Georgia) | Needs rating |
| Shannon Mall (Union City, Georgia) | Needs rating |
| South Dekalb Mall (Panthersville, Georgia) | Needs rating |
| South Hills Mall (Poughkeepsie, New York) | Needs rating |
| St. Louis Centre (St. Louis, Missouri) | Needs rating |
| Summit Place Mall (Waterford Township, Michigan) | Needs rating |
| The Summit (Wheatfield, New York | Needs rating |
| Tanglewood Mall (Roanoke, Virginia) | Good |
| The Mall at Sierra Vista (Sierra Vista) | Needs rating |
| Universal Mall (Warren, Michigan) | Good |
| University Mall (Little Rock, Arkansas) | Needs rating |
| Wonderland Mall (Livonia, Michigan) | Needs rating |
[edit] Other pages
Other malls besides these are listed on List of defunct shopping malls as red links. These malls are not listed on the above list. If you decide to create a new article for one of these malls, please add it to the above list, and add {{WikiProject Dead Malls}} to the top of the article's talk page.
[edit] Categories
[edit] Tasks
- Rate these articles based on Wikipedia:WikiProject Dead Malls/Ratings.
- Develop an infobox to be used on defunct and distressed shopping malls.
[edit] Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
[edit] Templates
[edit] Infoboxes
[edit] Stub templates
[edit] Other templates
- Template:WikiProject Dead Malls - Placed at the top of all articles affected by WikiProject Dead Malls.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Dead Malls/userbox - Placed on the user page of any project participant.
[edit] Resources
[edit] See also
- Wikipedia:Notability (shopping malls) (proposed guideline)
- Wikipedia:Places of local interest
