Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Shops at Biddeford Crossing


 * 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. It was borderline between a merge or a delete, but I am uncomfortable merging something that is completely unreferenced; ergo, delete. Proto :: ►  11:22, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

The Shops at Biddeford Crossing


Southcoast 18:56, 10 December 2006 (UTC) Non-notable place of local interest. Almost an ad. -Nv8200p talk 20:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Relatively notable development for an area which has not seen something of this magnitude, ever. This deletion request was started by someone out of spite for "strip malls" and his subjective opinion should have no bearing on the existence of this wiki entry.
 * Merge into Biddeford, Maine  Canadian - Bacon  t  c 21:34, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per Canadian Bacon. Yankee Rajput 22:02, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP:NOTE. Tulkolahten 17:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. NN. WMMartin 18:29, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached  Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Sandstein 19:55, 2 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete per nom or Merge per WP:LOCAL. No preference, but I'm not volunteering to do the merge either. :)  Xtifr tälk 02:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom --  ßott  e   siηi  (talk) 18:34, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge as above per WP:LOCAL. JYolkowski // talk 00:04, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 *  Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached  Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks,


 * Merge it already and stop relisting, the content can be removed later. -Amarkov blahedits 01:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Community consensus is not reached yet ! Tulkolahten 21:16, 6 December 2006 (UTC)


 * Delete as nn. meshach 01:26, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable. This is a strip mall rather than an enclosed shopping center, and doesn't even have its own web site. Do not relist this again as part of this same AfD; regardless of the outcome, enough people have commented by now. --Metropolitan90 04:06, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable because of the loss of wetlands in construction (see also the developer's preservation and restoral of other wetlands), and also because it is largest-ever commercial development in York County, Maine's southernmost county. It added a reference about the wetlands. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 04:32, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete No verified claim of notability. Shimeru 10:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge, dammit! -Toptomcat 13:08, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge to article on the local geographic/municipal area. At 500,000 sq ft it is only half the size of a typical regional mall and not otherwise architecturally or historically notable. Edison 15:40, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete the article and tear down the strip-mall, too. Frater Xyzzy 18:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Sharkface217 05:02, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as nn. Only source is about wetlands being filled in to make it..... not promising. Shopcruft? Inner Earth 16:27, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Keep Largest commerical development in Southern Maine with room for growth. Notable for bringing hundreds of jobs to the area and contributing to the local economy. 17:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.13.44.180 (talk • contribs)
 * Merge into Biddeford, Maine. Appears to have great significance to the local economy, and appears to be locally controversial. --orlady 17:05, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * KEEP Just needs more info, thank you for your time. Rcehoppe 08:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails WP:CORP, the relevant notability guideline. After 14 days on AFD, if there were sources, we'd have them.  Southern Maine is more than just York County, Maine, it also includes at least Cumberland County, Maine (and under some definitions other counties as well), so the largest mall is probably the Maine Mall in South Portland, Maine.  (The article on it was deleted under CSD G11.)  Article makes the claim that "The strip center is noteworthy for being the site of the first PetSmart in Maine."  That is not encyclopedic notability.  If we kept the first location of every chain (store, hotel, etc...) in every state we wouldn't be an encyclopedia, we'd be a business directory, contravening the WP:NOT policy.  GRBerry 03:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)  (The source page finished loading; the Maine Mall is 1.2 Million square feet, so more than twice as large.  This is definitely not the largest mall in Southern Maine.  http://www.ggp.com/content/live/aerialfacts/The%20Maine%20Mall_aerialfact.pdf GRBerry 03:27, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge. Looks almost notable enough for its own article, but it does fail notability. Maybe make a section on it in the Biddeford article? -- Wizardman 03:28, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. No non-trivial coverage of subject by multiple, reliable published sources. -- Satori Son 06:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge per Orlady. Montco 06:42, 12 December 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.