Talk:Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre

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[edit] Name

I deliberately created one page covering both thecentre:mk and Midsummer Place because:

  • from the point of view of a shopper (or a geographer) they form one shopping centre, and
  • the combination can claim to be one of the biggest shopping centres in Britain (note that the management of thecentre:mk include Midsummer Place in some statistics such as the gross letting area).

But there is no commonly used name for the combination, and so I had to find a name for the page. I chose to call it Central Milton Keynes Shopping Centre. I also considered using:

  • "Central Milton Keynes Shopping Area" - This is what appears on the plaque from the 1979 opening ceremony, but the name seems to be used to include everything up to Avebury Boulevard.
  • "Milton Keynes Regional Shopping Centre" - In the 1990s there were roadsigns to the "Regional Shopping Centre", but this description seems to be no longer used.

JonH 14:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Agreed - modern signs point to TheCentre:MK, which would not be accurate. Excellent article! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Concrete Cowboy (talk • contribs) 16:46, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Shop names

I had tried to write this article without mentioning the names of any shops. My thinking was that if one store is named the others will also want to be included, and we are advised that Wikipedia should not be a directory. But perhaps I was being eccentric. JonH 17:10, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Trivia

There is a Wikipedia guideline to avoid trivia.

Being named the "World's Longest Shopping Mall" clearly merits inclusion. But I am not sure if it is still true (even if it once was) because there are bigger newer malls in the List of largest buildings in the world and they may also be longer. I think a solution is to add at a suitable point in the Development section something like: With a length of XXX metres, it was said to be the longest shopping mall in the world.<ref>Guinness Book of World Records, XXth edition, 19XX, page XXX.</ref> Could someone with access to a copy of the Guinness Book please make such a change.

The advert was shown on Newsnight (I remember seeing it), but all it proved was that the centre had been advertised on television. I guess that applies to all large shopping centres, so it is not very remarkable and I think it could be omitted from the article.

JonH 17:10, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Floor area

The floor area for both centres should be split into two seperate templates for each centre. The two centres, Midsummer Place and Centre:MK are obviously 'seperate', and certainly can not claim to be bigger than the MetroCentre, which (if the current figure is to be believed), makes Milton Keynes Central the largest shopping centre in the U.K.. 84.67.145.16 (talk) 19:22, 14 February 2008 (UTC)