Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Signal Hill Mall (2nd nomination)


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The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Warm Regards, ZI Jony  (Talk) 15:01, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Signal Hill Mall
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Very small mall serving a small suburban town; only has a handful of stores and no major anchors. Per WP:PLACEOUTCOMES, this type of article is often deleted.  Sounder Bruce  00:41, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of North Carolina-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 02:03, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Shopping malls-related deletion discussions. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 02:05, 2 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Merge to Statesville, North Carolina. The mall has a reasonably long history, and was apparently once substantially larger and more significant to the town than it is today. It is not independently notable, but this content would be right at home in the article on the town. bd2412  T 02:10, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is a case of "once notable, always notable". At its peak in the 1990s, it had 42 stores and 350,000 sqft. I added a story from The Guardian, a leading British newspaper, which discusses the mall in the context of "dead malls". Eastmain (talk • contribs) 04:01, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * One mention in a short online photo essay isn't much of a strong argument. There's hundreds of dead malls, and this one hasn't shown that it's any more notable than the others.  Sounder Bruce  06:17, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Comment Over 10,000 results in North Carolina on Newspapers.com for "Signal Hill Mall." Lots of trivial mentions, of course, and I don't have an account there, but there's likely more sources other than the dead malls/recent news that major search engines bring up. (Note to closer: this is neither a keep nor a delete vote.) SportingFlyer  talk  07:14, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep - Depsite its small size, this appears to be a notable local enclosed mall, and there are sources to back it up.  Dough   4872   20:55, 2 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep the level of sourcing within this article is sufficient to establish notability. I added a couple more sources from newspapers.com that fill in some information on the early years. Ten Pound Hammer • (What did I screw up now?) 20:59, 8 August 2018 (UTC)


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