Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Connswater Shopping Centre


 * 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   delete. causa sui (talk) 20:38, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Connswater Shopping Centre

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No indication of WP:notability. No independent WP:reliable sources. Google searches not finding anything of significance. noq (talk) 14:20, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Don't see why this is on being deleted as there is nothing wrong with it. This is a very good wiki page and there is nothing wrong with it to delete it. It has good sources and references. noq, you dont even know about this centre, i live beside it. Although I didn't create this page and it was created before my Time on wiki there is no reason to delete it. I have worked hard to add details about the centre to the page. EastBelfastBoy 15:51 3 July 2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by EastBelfastBoy (talk • contribs) 14:52, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Comment Please read WP:notability and WP:reliable sources. Then explain how the article meets the guidelines. I am sorry if you have wasted your time adding the list of stores but just adding a list of stores will not make the shopping centre notable. noq (talk) 16:59, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

I think we should "keep" this article, it has suffered vandalism and therefore needs to be re-written, which is being done. It just needs sometime and it will become an amazing article about a great shopping centre. EastBelfastBoy (talk) 17:50, 3 July 2011 (UTC)EastBelfastBoyEastBelfastBoy (talk) 17:50, 3 July 2011 (UTC) 18:49, 3 July 2011


 * Delete. The page doesn't even have an opening date! Island Monkey talk the talk 18:23, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Island Monkey, with all this hastle with the AfD, and trying to improve in other places, I forgot to put in an opening date, The article just needs a bit more time to progress so please "keep" it so I can help improve. Many Thanks EastBelfastBoy 19:37, 3 July 2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by EastBelfastBoy (talk • contribs)

Keep. This could be a brilliant article if it had a chance to become one. It was previously vandalised and needs to be re-written. It has a great structure and just needs progressed. EastBelfastBoy (talk) 20:00, 3 July 2011 (UTC)EastBelfastBoy
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Shopping malls-related deletion discussions.  —• Gene93k (talk) 23:18, 3 July 2011 (UTC)
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 * Redirect to Economy of Belfast and Merge the few bits of encyclopaedic information. EastBelfastBoy, your contributions were made in good faith, but unfortunately Wikipedia isn't the right place for this information. The problem is that this article almost exclusively lists what shops occupy/occupied retail units in the shopping centre and other facilities, but Wikipedia isn't a business directory. There is a precedent that article about shopping centres or shopping streets shouldn't just be lists of shops there, and the main reason reason is that as shops come and go so often, it would be impractical to keep this up to date. Also, Wikipedia is supposed to be a record of permanently notable information, and in 2021 there's be nothing notable about what shops used to be in a shopping centre in 2011. There might be a place for an article about the shopping centre itself (e.g. its history, the scope of its retail operations, and anything else that has been written about in third-party sources), but all I could find on GNews was coverage confirmaing that the shopping centre exists (and some mention of the refurbishment). Unless more third-party coverage is found, the most I think this can get is a mention in Economy of Belfast, which should list the major shopping centres if it doesn't already. Chris Neville-Smith (talk) 09:35, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete and maybe add a mention elsewhere, as suggested above. No claim, or any indication, of notability. Cheers, LindsayHello 19:27, 8 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. Scolaire (talk) 22:56, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Delete - fails WP:GNG. Simply nothing notable about it and nothing notable has happened there. Bridgeplayer (talk) 15:30, 11 July 2011 (UTC)
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