Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/VF Outlet Village

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 of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 02:36, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VF Outlet Village

WP:CORP Non-notable shopping mall. It's a typical American discount mall. Nothing in the article indicates notability. Was marked with "prod", but "prod" was deleted by Kappa (talk · contribs), so we have to do this the hard way. --John Nagle 17:38, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

• Weak delete The talk page does have some unsourced assertions which might raise it above the bog standard. This concept was the first of what was to become the 'factory outlet mall,' where multiple brands are sold at one location. The VF Outlet Village ... is the primary source of Reading's former title of "The Outlet Capital of the World.". It's still just a mall though. Dlyons493 Talk 19:20, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
• Delete It's not on the list of "Historically Important Shopping Centers in the United States", from the Department of American Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University, topic in Shopping Mall Studies. [1]. (Yes, there really is such a thing as academic study of shopping mall history). Can't find it on the other mall history sites, either. --John Nagle 19:32, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Oh God, please do not tell my wife there is an academically-respectable field of Shopping Mall Studies Dlyons493 Talk 19:45, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Sure there is. There's a whole literature on malls, in the fields of real estate, urban planning, retailing, sociology, and law. But anyway, it turns out that this VF Outlet Village is mentioned in the Reading, Pennsylvania article. So Wikipedia already has it covered. --John Nagle 07:54, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

• Delete per Nagle. LOL per Dlyons493 ;-) -- ReyBrujo 06:56, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. Johntex\^talk 18:19, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per Nagle. You learn something new every day. - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:44, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Delete per nom. San Saba 16:04, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
• Merge and Redirect. This should be converted to a redirect and not simply deleted. Vegaswikian 21:05, 4 May 2006 (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.