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The result was delete. KrakatoaKatie 17:12, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Nottingham Square[edit]

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Non-notable strip mall in Maryland. (Strip malls are generally even less notable than enclosed malls in my opinion.) This is mainly just a directory listing. Fails WP:RS and WP:N. Ten Pound Hammer • ^{(Broken clamshells•Otter chirps•Review?)} 18:47, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• Delete. Without sources, how could we even verify any claims to be notable? Jakew 20:15, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete The Baltimore Sun described it as a strip mall, and [1] says it has 186,000 sq ft of retail space, if this is "The Shoppes at Nottingham Square." Average little strip mall Nothing to make it notable.(edited to add) Could not find definitive sources showing it was notable, or stating its GLA. There has never been any consensus that Wikipedia should be a directory of neighborhood or local shopping attractions. Edison 21:09, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Keep for Wikipedia:WikiProject Shopping Centers, I found the addresses of the sources I used to create the article (verifying my first hand knowledge) and cited them, however the site doesn't seem to be up right now but it may be temporary. I don't care how un-notable TenPoundHammer thinks strip malls are, notability judgments should be objective, and nowhere in the article does it even say it's a strip mall. It is a "large retail stores and restaurant franchises" with a mall stub because there are no more specific stubs. Edison's figures are taken out of context, "The Shoppes at Nottingham Square" is just the collection of food stores and other services which has only recently been developed, and is only a fraction of Nottingham Square. MDSL2005 21:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • • There was certainly no intent to misrepresent it. People creating mall articles frequently use the popular name rather than the official name. If you have a source for the gross leasable area of the mall which is the subject of the article, then please add it, because it is an important factor in the ISCA classification. Edison 19:09, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I retract my vote from consideration, I cannot find any secondary information pertaining to this property and realize that there is no element of community involvement other than spending money, which is why there is no local news stories about it. MDSL2005 01:08, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Merge to White Marsh, Maryland, should be enough for just that page.--JForget 00:47, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]
• Delete, the article is nothing more than a list of stores and there are no obvious sources to establish notability. Nuttah68 10:26, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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.