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Olds, Wortman & King

 * ... that after 63 years of use as a department store, the 1910 Olds, Wortman & King building (pictured) was converted into downtown Portland, Oregon's first shopping mall?
 * ALT1:... that the Galleria, the first shopping mall in downtown Portland, was created in a 66-year-old former department store building?
 * ALT2:... that the Galleria (pictured), the first shopping mall in downtown Portland, Oregon, was created in a 66-year-old former department store building?
 * Reviewed: Vallejo (ferry)
 * Comment: Information in the article explains why one hook has 63 years while the ALTs say 66 years. For the alts, I linked to the redirect page (to simplify the initial nom), but if that hook is selected, the link should be piped from the exact article title.

5x expanded by SJ Morg (talk). Self nom at 09:24, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Article checks out fine: Dates and lengths are OK. I read the main source and several others and found no close paraphrasing (nice work condensing a lot of very detailed source information). Sourcing is adequate throughout. No bare-URL citations. Image is OK (and the alt hook I suggest below is much more meaningful with the image). Hook facts are properly supported. All of the hooks check out OK. However, I find their wording a bit confusing (the building pictured is post-conversion, so it's not valid to say it was "converted"; the picture is of the building, not of the Galleria shopping mall inside it) for clarity and interest I do suggest rewording the hook as follows:
 * Symbol confirmed.svgALT3: ... that, 66 years after it opened as a department store, the 1910 Olds, Wortman & King building (pictured) became the first indoor shopping mall in downtown Portland, Oregon? --Orlady (talk) 23:56, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Orlady, for a thorough and thoughtful review. Replying to a few points: I'm a resident of the area, and locally it is common for the building itself to be referred to as the "Galleria building" (or with capital B), and most Portlanders under 50 have probably never heard of Olds, Wortman & King – as the store dropped that name 51 years ago – so to someone from here, it sounds normal to hear the building referred to as "the Galleria".  And indeed the building was renamed (although I note the NRHP listing is under the historic name). The 2011 online citations refer to the building as the Galleria (even though the mall inside has been gone for several years now), and the lettering "Galleria" is visible on the exterior in the picture. However, you have a good point that the "mall" is really just the building's interior (especially in the context of this article), and on that basis, the wordings of Alts 1 and 2 are a little inaccurate in their phrasing. For the original hook, your point about "converted" is also reasonable (assuming the picture will actually be used), but I was trying to convey that major modifications to the building were necessary to make the change from department store to mall, and (in view of the building's NRHP-listing name) I don't agree that the hook phrasing suggests the photo shows the building pre-conversion.  Personally, the original hook still sounds all right to me, but your suggested ALT3 is fine with me. Thanks again. SJ Morg (talk) 00:47, 4 September 2011 (UTC)