Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stratford Square Mall

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was keep—users have shown that there is source coverage out there. — Deckiller 00:12, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stratford Square Mall

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1.3 million square foot super-regional mall, not notable otherwise. Super-regionals should be notable, but this one fails WP:RS and WP:V. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?)} 16:29, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

• Have you actually been through all 300 google news archive hits, or are you just going by the article as it stands? Kappa 18:35, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

  What 300 Google News hits? I only get six. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?)} 19:08, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

  Sorry I think the number might be more like 5,400 [1] Kappa 00:34, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

  Oh, that kind of Google News search. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?)} 20:44, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

• Weak Delete unless someone can find articles in there that give "significant coverage" to this mall Corpx 04:40, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep As a 1.3 million square foot super-regional mall. A super-regional mall is considered the "dominant shopping venue for the region in which it located" per Shopping mall and would have likely been judged notable based on the rejected WP:MALL. AFD results as tabulated on the talk page of that proposal, have been that articles about malls of this size have been kept, as the largest several hundred in the US. To find articles specifically discussing the history and importance of the mall itself, distinct from articles about happenings at the mall, shoplifting or job openings in the mass of stories linked to in the Google results cited, apparently requires paying several dollars per story for access from the papers involved. This can probably be accessed from some public libraries or university libraries, to sort out the stories which specifically address the significance of the mall and would help to directly satisfy WP:N. Some of the results are clearly about the mall, but the snips do not allow telling whether the coverage is substantial. I hope to look into this further before the AFD is over. Edison 15:22, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
• Keep, notable as a super-regional mall and the 5,400 Google News hits leave little doubt of this. Silensor 20:20, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.