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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frandor Mall

: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 Keep, as per consensus - with a special shout out to Hell in a Bucket's very interesting confession. :) Pastor Theo (talk) 00:12, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

=[[Frandor Mall]]=

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Delete, non notable spam article Hell In A Bucket (talk) 15:15, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

  • Delete Sources are mostly personal sites, no non-trivial coverage found in third-party sources. (That, and it's actually called Frandor Shopping Center.) Unlike their enclosed bretheren, strip malls seem to have a pattern of being non-notable. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 16:24, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Keep per Edison, non-trivial sources found. Ten Pound Hammer, his otters and a clue-bat • (Many otters • One bat • One hammer) 17:23, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Keep It is not a minor strip mall. It is a regional mall, having 450,000 square feet of retail space. It was Michigan's first such shopping mall, and is of historical importance. Frandor mall had [http://books.google.com/books?id=vRkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA98&dq=frandor&lr=&as_brr=3 brief coverage]] in Billboard on pages 96 and 98 in April 9, 1955, ("Lansing men build shop center kiddieland") where it was described as a $10,000,000 shopping center to be built on a former golf course. There was more [http://books.google.com/books?id=NyMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA15&dq=frandor&lr=&as_brr=3 brief coverage] in Billboard July 9, 1955, p 15 ("Dealer doings") where it said there would be parking for 5,000 cars. It had a redevelopment and was to have a grand reopening in 1999 per [http://retailtrafficmag.com/mag/retail_development_digest_35/ Retail Traffic], March 1 1998. Over the years there were stories about a bank robberry there, problems with water runoff, tenants coming and going and the usual. Edison (talk) 17:17, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Comment Why would "the usual" help establish notability? Abductive (talk) 10:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Malls-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 23:29, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Note: This debate has been included in the list of Michigan-related deletion discussions. -- TexasAndroid (talk) 23:29, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Speedy keep. Going with WP:SNOW. To the nom, I think it's time to take a chill pill, dude. --Dennis The Tiger (Rawr and stuff) 23:44, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
  • HMMMMM, I just say no to drugs. Hell In A Bucket (talk) 23:56, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
  • Keep. As malls go, this one is pretty significant. Kestenbaum (talk) 17:40, 9 July 2009 (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.